Beyonce’s thought-provoking performance at the Super Bowl 50 Half Time Show Seriously, you put your phone down for 45 minutes these days and somehow you’ve missed live footage of the solar eclipse, Kris Aquino bidding her home network farewell, and the deaths of David Bowie, Nancy Reagan, and two directors that traverse the same hallways you do on a regular basis. In the amount of time I’ve been on hiatus from my beloved Manila Bulletin Lifestyle column, so much has transpired that I’m not entirely sure in what realm of culture I ought to begin fussing. In the spirit of camaraderie, I’ll do what often works best in these situations by sidling up to the watering hole, taking my cue from other fussers, and plunging into the depths of what is already underway—commenting on that which just about everyone has tickets to these days—the absolutely titillating show being staged at [...]
