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3 weeks ago | 
lifestyle.inquirer.net | Pauline Miranda
Annual international film festival QCinema just announced a special edition of the festival will take place this June. Called “QCinema RainbowQC Pride Film Festival,” the festival will feature films curated to celebrate the many facets of the LGBTQIA+ experience. This is the first time the international film festival will be holding a pride edition. “For the first time ever, QCinema is serving full-blown pride realness,” they say in an announcement post.
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3 weeks ago | 
lifestyle.inquirer.net | Pauline Miranda
June is already shaping up to be a busy and colorful month with the Pride events already lined up. If you’re looking for more exciting things to add to your calendar, consider a trip to the theater. This month, queer stories take center stage, supported by stories of hope, connection, and relationships.
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3 weeks ago | 
lifestyle.inquirer.net | Pauline Miranda
“It’s SB19’s world and we’re just living in it.”I just thought of this as a cheeky side comment given the immersive “Simula at Wakas” Experience the other week, but after witnessing SB19’s world tour kickoff at the Philippine Arena last weekend, I now look back at it and can’t help but be amazed at how true this is. SB19 has proven that they’re more than ready to conquer the world.
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1 month ago | 
lifestyle.inquirer.net | Pauline Miranda
“I’m leaving clues in the fittin’ room and it’s hot tea,” Jennie says in her recent hit, and the tea is spilled: the Blackpink main rapper and lead vocalist is Jean Paul Gaultier’s newest muse. Jennie dons the French fashion house’s Fall 2025 ready-to-wear pre-collection in a recently posted video announcement. The collection features looks designed around the four elements of earth, water, wind, and fire.
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1 month ago | 
lifestyle.inquirer.net | Pauline Miranda
In 2019, a study reported that Filipinos love Filipino food best. Love your own, as they say, but this was also proof that even when presented with a plethora of flavors from all over the world, Filipinos will still hold our own cuisine closest to our hearts and stomachs. Years after that study, Filipino food now has its much-deserved place in the spotlight, with more and more Filipino food concepts and dishes gaining popularity abroad.
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1 month ago | 
lifestyle.inquirer.net | Pauline Miranda
“Tumabi ka d’yan! Dun ka na!” is the perfect battle cry against in-game enemies—I myself can attest to this because I’ve been listening to SB19’s fun diss track “Dungka” (from their recent “Simula at Wakas” EP) to get hyped when I play video games, fighting against bosses and competing guilds.
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1 month ago | 
lifestyle.inquirer.net | Pauline Miranda
We’ve seen the promising first season of the live action Netflix adaptation of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” last year, and we’re stoked that the next two seasons already got the green light. And this just in: Production for the second season has already ended, and shooting will also begin for season 3.
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1 month ago | 
lifestyle.inquirer.net | Pauline Miranda
It has been a little more than a year since Philippine theater lost one of its most prolific and esteemed playwrights, Floy Quintos. He left a final piece, “Grace,” which explores the power of faith and the scrutiny thereof. The play follows a fictionalized narrative based on the alleged apparitions of Mary, Mediatrix of All Grace in Lipa in 1948. While the Church has declared the “apparitions” as not supernatural, the play explores the details around the controversy.
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1 month ago | 
lifestyle.inquirer.net | Pauline Miranda
These days, my earworm is not a song, but a monologue. I know I’m not alone. These past few weeks, not a day has gone by without hearing “what hafen Vella?” either while scrolling through TikTok or Facebook, overheard in conversations, or literally just playing in our heads. “What hafen Vella? Why you crying agen? I know, vamfyre, ryt? Vamfyre will feyt to me!” @zeinvcxy What hafen vella….Why u crying again? I know….vamfire! right?
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1 month ago | 
lifestyle.inquirer.net | Pauline Miranda
A universal truth has been constantly making itself apparent to me these past few months: Wherever you are in the world, you cannot create good art without sufficient support. Last April, I had the opportunity to attend the Taiwan International Festival of Arts, enjoying four days packed with cultural and art experiences all over Taipei. This was my first exposure to Taiwan’s vibrant and enviably well-supported performing arts scene, and it has been nothing short of enlightening.
