Chain of cool

Clint Holton Potestas 09/26/2017

We whooped real life and inspiration blurred in a long, block platform of air-kissing and posturing as the local audience was delighted to see—and be found in—this precious, famous place. And there were many to digest, all…

Leading by example

Clint Holton Potestas 09/19/2017

Finally a good response to some concerns of inertness. Almost like the force of magnetism, a trio of academicians pulls us strongly that we’ve swooned at their sight before us—presumably, a capacity reserved only to our dear…

State of grace

Clint Holton Potestas 09/13/2017

I am licking my lips thinking of the new wardrobe, inaugurated at the moment when they all hit their juicy ripest. Luscious for the plucking are so many deliciously different pieces, so many berry-bright flights of fancy…

Hometown glory

Clint Holton Potestas 08/22/2017

They really were couture pyrotechnics—kaleidoscopic shades, whorls, whizzers— during the curtain call. I was sitting across Ernz Huiso while all these were happening, and the expression on his face was rapt, like a little boy’s. He does…

Sky’s the limit

Clint Holton Potestas 08/01/2017

There’s a reason lovers sighed at the moon in Bali. Oh, see. We conjured up a little something for Divine Lee whose marriage to Blake Go happens this Saturday in Cebu. A harbinger: Our own version of…

Queen of the Hearts

Clint Holton Potestas 07/29/2017

For me to move out of Manila is already a shocker to a lot of people,” Divine Lee, socialite-turned-celebrity famous for her humor and glibness on television, beams about the two-fold shift that followed after committing to…

‘Glitterati: Electric dreams pieced together

Clint Holton Potestas 07/18/2017

The days are growing shorter —the wheel of the year slowly approaching the rainy season—but still, under a broad sky, our sense of possibilities is endless. We’re trading the sticky excesses of summer for cool, urban neons…

High in the neon sky

Clint Holton Potestas 07/11/2017

  Did the homecoming arrive at something good? “I’m amazed,” Pinky Magalona sent me a personal text the afternoon after her first show in six years since her diaspora to the Middle East to work for a…

The Wider We Go

Clint Holton Potestas 06/13/2017

THE HUMOR about hiding a battalion of family members under an ultra extended circumference of the skirt could be true here. It was in the exaggeration rendition of the bouffant cut of Philipp Tampus that harnessed him…

Blithe spirits

Clint Holton Potestas 05/16/2017

THE BACKSTAGE did not look like the backstage I used to intrude when I was 17. You know it very well, too: crew members hollering, rushing through the doors to the makeup department for time check while…

Pops Fernandez: Queen boss

Clint Holton Potestas 01/21/2017

THIS is Pops Fernandez, one of the first celebrities to launch themselves like comets across the universe without social media. Installed as the Philippines’ Concert Queen by the record albums, movies, and shows sold out since 1976,…

The gift of tongue

Clint Holton Potestas 12/13/2016

“I DO not trust my tongue,” I excuse myself for my incapacity to determine if the coffee has the raisins or the chocolate. “You have to be aggressive,” Miko Simangan replies, then inquires if I could identify…

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