"The Metro" Blogs & Blog Posts

It used to be that writers had two choices if they wanted to get published: find a publisher to accept their book, or spend a ton of money to print their books and sell them themselves. Now, with the advent of Amazon and ebooks and mobile reading dev...

What are you guys up to on April 1? We're having the annual Filipino Freethinkers Forum in the afternoon, at the UP-Ayalaland Technohub (registration is free and starts at 1.30pm). We'll be talking about the reproductive health bill, freedom of expre...

I apologize for all the people complaining about the traffic caused by the filming. Apparently, we are used to filming our car chase scenes half-assed and cannot wrap our heads around why a complicated fifteen-minute action scene in a movie takes wee...

This is the fifth in a series of posts dedicated to all the Jeremy Renner fangirls and fanboys who don’t have the time and/or the willingness to make fools of themselves just for a chance to ogle the JRen at the filming of his movie The Bourne...

This is the fifth in a series of posts featuring the accounts of an innocent bystander at the filming of the movie The Bourne Legacy in the Philippines, and about how stalking is the new cardio. The two are not necessarily related. Saturday, 18 Febru...

“Women hold up half the sky.” — ancient Chinese proverb Aung San Suu Kyi. Lady Gaga. Hilary Clinton. Wangari Maathai. Emily Abrera. In case you haven’t noticed, women have become a more powerful force in the world today. More than mer...

We thought we were in the wrong place. Mike invited us to the launch of a graphic novel he wrote, a re-emagining of the Ilocano epic “Biag ni Lam-Ang”. But when we got to the Collective (Malugay St., Makati City), all we could find was a...