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4 days ago | lifestyle.inquirer.net | Jelou Galang |Jar Concengco

Rabin Angeles has watched “Meet Joe Black” many times. Despite premiering in 1998, you can still comb through the latest Letterboxd reviews for the sleeper hit top-billed by Brad Pitt, Claire Forlani, and Anthony Hopkins. It’s one-part romance, one-part fantasy, but ultimately a story about mortality. The 20-year-old actor tells me, “Palagi kong inaaral si Brad Pitt”—who, by the way, played Death in the movie. Gen Zs have this chronic tendency to squeeze humor out of humans’ limited lifespan.

1 week 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.

1 week ago | lifestyle.inquirer.net | Lala Singian

Walk through any major art museum’s historical galleries and you’ll likely encounter paintings created with egg tempera, particularly among Christian icons and medieval masterpieces. This ancient medium, which uses egg yolk as a binder for pigments, dominated European art through the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance period.

1 week 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.

1 week ago | lifestyle.inquirer.net | Angela Natividad

A recent viral tweet showcased a comment that criticized Filipinos for “overdressing” when traveling, with others in the replies and quote tweets adding that these are the same people who also book “cheap” hotels and “only” fly with budget airlines, all punctuated with all-caps “hahas” and uncalled-for laughing emojis. Some of these responses have since been deleted.