Writer
Rissa A. Coronel
4 BS PSY. No-one has seen her forehead and lived to tell the tale. She writes around the place, reads in the car and bleeds espresso roast. See her think aloud on http://rissacoronel.wordpress.com.
Writer
4 BS PSY. No-one has seen her forehead and lived to tell the tale. She writes around the place, reads in the car and bleeds espresso roast. See her think aloud on http://rissacoronel.wordpress.com.
Theater & ArtsATENEO ENTERTEYNMENT Para sa Tao, Bayan, Lansangan at Diyos’ (Ateneo Entablado) second production of the season, Sa Isang Madilim, FB na Mapanglaw, is a subversive marriage of Brechtian epic theater and millennial culture. It is an epic, written by Jerome Ignacio under the direction of Jethro Tenorio, that revolves around the cyberspace of high schoolers doing […]
January 23, 2015
Today was a Thursday like any other—except for the fact that we had just come back from a badly planned, not-so-well-executed impromptu road trip in search of our roots, largely inspired by Jack Kerouac. In view of National History Month, we decided to throw our Thursday so inconceivably far back, spanning the time frames of […]
September 24, 2014
FoodThere’s a particular psych experiment that comes to mind when I look back on my diet. The Stanford Prison Experiment is exactly what it sounds like—a simulation of prison conditions where people played the role of prisoner and prison guard. Although it was set to run for two weeks, it had to be cut short […]
August 3, 2014
Imagine entering an apartment complex and being led to a room lit by fairy lights. The quaint venue is teeming with people, seated courteously on the floor, waiting on the first glimpse of the three performers of the night. This is an unlikely scene to call a concert—let alone one with a star-studded lineup of […]
August 13, 2014
Theater & ArtsTanghalang Ateneo’s 36th season is off to a strong start with their opening play, Middle Finger, directed by Ed Lacson Jr. The play is an adaptation of the controversial classic, Spring Awakening, in which the pubescent protagonists actively repress their sexual urges to conform to Victorian propriety. Middle Finger takes place in America: Jakob Rodriguez […]
August 3, 2014
FoodIt seems as though coffee buzzwords such as “slow brew” and “single-origin” are turning up more and more in casual coffee shop conversation. Heck, even Starbucks is using them. The Third Wave, by the looks of it, is quickly crashing into the mainstream. This movement is a return to the coffee itself—a stripping-down of all […]
June 4, 2014
MusicIn the local scene, the EP—or extended play—is often an artist’s first plunge into the music sphere. While we live in an age where digital streaming services like Spotify and Soundcloud are the main mediums for sharing music, releasing an EP is a band’s artistic debut—their way of proclaiming, “This is us. This is our […]
June 4, 2014