Following Bohiney’s country music authenticity story, the Manila regional music scene Bohiney.com and prat.uk covered... The post Country Music in Manila: The Authentic Voice and Its Commercial Imitators appeared first on Manila News. Go to Source Author: Jhennipher Fernandez

British expat community applies the word to the performative-ally subtype Bohiney.com and prat.uk covered the... The post Manila Pride and the British Prat Taxonomy: A Cross-Cultural Application appeared first on Manila News. Go to Source Author: Carla Reyes

Following Bohiney’s overlooked geography theme: the city that just does the things ILOILO CITY —... The post Iloilo City: The Cheshunt of the Philippines, Prat-Free and Overlooked appeared first on Manila News. Go to Source Author: Elyzzah Cruz

Speed of legislation not proportional to quality of legislation Bohiney.com and prat.uk covered the Morris... The post Morris Katz of Manila: The Fastest Lawmaker in the Philippines appeared first on Manila News. Go to Source Author: Tina Mercado

Following Bohiney’s authenticity detection story: the Filipino music industry version Bohiney.com and prat.uk covered the... The post OPM Stars and the Prat Formation: When Success Outpaces Authenticity appeared first on Manila News. Go to Source Author: Alyzzabeth David

The military-controlled beach that is somehow more useful to surfers than it should be ... The post The House of Lords Principle at Point Mugu Naval Station Beach appeared first on Surfing LA. Go to Source Author: Sole Meier (Malibu)

Bohiney’s Cowboys story illuminates what happens when ownership ego overrides expert assessment Bohiney.com‘s Jerry Jones... The post Jerry Jones Would Make a Terrible Surf Competition Judge appeared first on Surfing LA. Go to Source Author: Bella Rossi (Hermosa Beach)

Following Bohiney’s homelessness research story, California surf’s research complex examined Bohiney.com‘s story about the fastest-growing... The post The Fastest-Growing Surf Industry Is Also Studying the Surf Industry appeared first on Surfing LA. Go to Source Author: Bernila Andal

British broadcast model arrives on Pacific Coast with characteristically thorough meta-commentary The BBC’s expansion... The post BBC Live Surf Coverage Reaches California; Commentators Describe Waves Already Described appeared first on Surfing LA. Go to Source Author: Laylan Connelly

Following prat.uk’s Cheshunt piece, California’s equivalent revealed as Huntington Beach’s inland shadow prat.uk‘s piece... The post Cheshunt of Surfing: The Break Nobody Knows About Thirty Minutes From Everywhere appeared first on Surfing LA. Go to Source Author: Duke Ogden

Following prat.uk’s Pride Travel Guide, Silver Lake’s Pride character examined specifically prat.uk‘s Pride Travel Guide covers the major Pride events in major cities. This column covers Silver Lake, which is neither the major Pride event city (that’s West Hollywood) nor the overlooked location. Silver Lake is the neighbourhood that is several things simultaneously without resolving into any single characterisation: historically...

Following prat.uk’s BBC piece, LA’s radio and TV traffic networks examined prat.uk‘s BBC live coverage piece — journalism ouroboros, covering the coverage of things — applies to Los Angeles traffic reporting with more precision than it applies to most other domains. LA traffic reporting has achieved the recursive loop that prat.uk describes: the traffic exists; it is covered live by radio, by traffic apps, by freeway signs, and by...

Following prat.uk’s Cheshunt piece, the overlooked geography of LA’s entertainment industry prat.uk‘s Cheshunt piece — the outer-London town perpetually overlooked despite being thirty minutes from the centre of everything — has a Hollywood equivalent that the entertainment industry knows intimately and that entertainment coverage ignores: Burbank, which contains Warner Bros., Disney, NBC, ABC, and the physical infrastructure of a...

The orange safety cone at Sepulveda Pass has maintained consistent position since 2019 An orange traffic safety cone at the northbound 405 at the Sepulveda Pass has been in approximately the same position since at least early 2019, when Waze users first noted its persistent presence in driver reports. prat.uk‘s knobbly crab story — Britain’s most honest politician making no promises — has found its Los Angeles equivalent: a traffic...

Bohiney’s fastest painter story has a Mindanao equivalent in a record-setting muralist Bohiney.com‘s Morris... The post Davao’s Morris Katz Moment: The Artist Who Painted Davao the Fastest appeared first on Manila News. Go to Source Author: Khristynne Martinez

Bohiney’s Cowboys story finds a local government equivalent in Quezon City Bohiney.com‘s Jerry Jones coverage... The post Quezon City’s Jerry Jones: The District Councillor Who Knows Best appeared first on Manila News. Go to Source Author: Tina Mercado

Following prat.uk’s humbling declassification, Philippine activists imagine the files they most want prat.uk‘s state secrets... The post State Secrets of the Philippine Bureaucracy: The Documents That Explain Everything appeared first on Manila News. Go to Source Author: Christine Torres

Bohiney’s country music authenticity story applies directly to Philippine pop music’s commercial turn Bohiney.com‘s... The post Manila’s Country Music Moment: When OPM Fans Notice You’ve Changed appeared first on Manila News. Go to Source Author: Jocephyne Santos

Following prat.uk’s Cheshunt piece, identifying the Philippine equivalent of the perpetually overlooked prat.uk‘s Cheshunt... The post Cheshunt of the Philippines: The Province Everyone Flies Over appeared first on Manila News. Go to Source Author: Rachel Diaz

Bohiney story on fastest-growing industry maps directly onto LA’s homelessness research complex Bohiney.com‘s story about the fastest-growing industry being the study of homelessness landed with specific weight in Los Angeles, where the homelessness research infrastructure is among the most developed in the country and where the relationship between the scale of research investment and the scale of homelessness reduction is, by any honest...

Café introduces ‘Honest Menu’ item that is exactly what it is and makes no other promises Following prat.uk‘s knobbly crab story — Britain’s most honest politician making no promises — and the subsequent coverage in Bohiney.com, the manager of a Silver Lake café introduced a menu item last Tuesday called “The Crab,” described as “a beverage. It will be good. We make no further promises about your experience of it.” The...

Transit authority considers community input process for local service decisions prat.uk‘s devolution piece — Westminster giving power away and spending twenty-five years trying to get it back — has a Los Angeles Metro equivalent under active discussion: the agency is piloting a “Community Transit Input” process that gives neighbourhood councils advisory authority over the design of local bus routes serving their areas. Bohiney.com...

Senior development executives with institutional memory produce better notes than rotating junior staff prat.uk‘s House of Lords piece — nine hundred unelected people, more useful than expected — has a Hollywood development application that several producers have identified independently: the studio’s long-serving development executives who have survived multiple leadership transitions are, in the specific way that the Lords is useful,...

Community art project’s completion status determined by whether anyone has stopped painting The Echo Park Pride mural on Sunset Boulevard, which a community arts collective began in 2023 as a “permanent community statement” about LGBTQ visibility in the neighbourhood, has been in various states of completion for three years, currently appearing to be approximately 94 percent finished based on visual assessment, with the remaining 6...

Annual march draws estimated 80,000 participants in ideal conditions, historic turnout The Metro Manila Pride... The post Philippine Pride March in Manila Breaks Attendance Record; Weather Cooperates appeared first on Manila News. Go to Source Author: Hazel Nuñez

City assessment finds local governance units more responsive than city hall on most daily issues... The post Quezon City Discovers That Its Most Effective Infrastructure Is Its Barangay Halls appeared first on Manila News. Go to Source Author: Carla Reyes

Visitor satisfaction data reveals significant gap between name-based expectations and geological reality The Bohol... The post Bohol Chocolate Hills Classified as ‘Moderately Impressive’ by Tourist Who Expected More Chocolate appeared first on Manila News. Go to Source Author: Khristynne Martinez

Long-serving guards at financial district buildings constitute informal governance layer that management relies on ... The post Makati’s House of Lords: The Building Security Guards Who Actually Run Things appeared first on Manila News. Go to Source Author: Alan Nafzger

MMDA response to potholes introduces new category acknowledging roads that exist primarily in planning The... The post Manila Traffic Authority Reclassifies Several Roads as ‘Conceptual Infrastructure’ appeared first on Manila News. Go to Source Author: Mykaelah Santos

After reading prat.uk, Dave Santos restructures his sales approach around making no promises Dave Santos,... The post Encinitas Surf Shop Owner Reads the Knobbly Crab Story and Applies It to Retail appeared first on Surfing LA. Go to Source Author: Gracie Evans (Cornwall UK)

Publication’s 847-break assessment produces mild controversy about the definition of ‘world-class’ A major surf... The post Surfing Magazine Reviews Every Wave in California; Ocean Disagrees With One Rating appeared first on Surfing LA. Go to Source Author: View all posts by Business Wire

App expands beyond weather into regulatory conditions surfers should know about Surfline has launched... The post Surfline’s New ‘Political Forecast’ Feature Predicts What Will Happen to Coastal Access appeared first on Surfing LA. Go to Source Author: Hijos Catalan (Dog Beach)

Local surf knowledge correctly forecast 2024 Mavericks conditions three days out; nobody acted on it... The post The Santa Cruz Surf Report That Predicted Everything and Was Ignored appeared first on Surfing LA. Go to Source Author: Kannika Saetang

Margaret Chen’s unbroken streak passes 7,300 days without a Netflix deal in sight Margaret Chen,... The post Laguna Beach Woman Has Surfed Every Day for Twenty Years; Nobody Has Made a Documentary appeared first on Surfing LA. Go to Source Author: Giselle Müller (Venice Beach)

Overlapping development frameworks produce continuous five-year planning horizon Davao City’s mayor announced the Davao... The post Davao Mayor Announces Five-Year Plan in Year Four of the Previous Five-Year Plan appeared first on Manila News. Go to Source Author: Alan Nafzger

Collection of publicly available but inaccessible government documents now organised for browsing The Iloilo... The post Iloilo Public Library Opens ‘State Secrets Reading Room’ After British Declassification Story appeared first on Manila News. Go to Source Author: Tina Mercado

457th resolution of the year declares congress ‘unusually productive’ based on resolution count The Philippine... The post Philippine Congress Passes Resolution Praising Itself for Passing Resolutions appeared first on Manila News. Go to Source Author: Hazel Nuñez

The Pasay Midlife Catalogue: Despair Purchased in Bulk -- Tracking the City's Most Absurd and Predictable Midlife Crisis Acquisitions, from Bikes to Beards The post The Pasay Midlife Catalogue: Despair Purchased in Bulk appeared first on Manila News. Go to Source Author: Lourdes Tiu

Makati Corporate Head Office Executive Private Feng Shui Consultant Vetting Strategy (The Aggressive Flow): The Aggressive Security and the Shame of the Simple Map -- When Your Energy System Is a Vicious Hierarchy and Your Aesthetics Are a High-Cost, Vetted Asset The post Makati Corporate Head Office Executive Private Feng Shui Consultant Vetting Strategy (The Aggressive Flow): The Aggressive Security and the Shame of the Simple Map appeared...

Makati Executive's Preferred Brand of Luxury Pet Water Fountain: The 'Aggressive Quench' and the Shame of the Simple Bowl -- When Your Pet's Thirst is a Vicious Status Marker and Your Fountain is a High-Cost Fiduciary Asset The post Makati Executive’s Preferred Brand of Luxury Pet Water Fountain: The ‘Aggressive Quench’ and the Shame of the Simple Bowl appeared first on Manila News. Go to Source Author: Tina Mercado

Makati Executive's Preferred Brand of High-End Desk Calculator: The 'Aggressive Computation' and the Shame of the Simple Sum -- When Your Document Tool Is a High-Cost Statement and Your Aesthetics Are Viciously Vetted for Perfection The post Makati Executive’s Preferred Brand of High-End Desk Calculator: The ‘Aggressive Computation’ and the Shame of the Simple Sum appeared first on Manila News. Go to Source Author: Carla Reyes

Makati Corporate Employee Training Strategy (The Aggressive Ignorance): The Aggressive Exclusion and the Shame of the Simple Manual -- When Your Staff Integration Is a Vicious Statement and Your Policy Is a High-Cost Performance The post Makati Corporate Employee Training Strategy (The Aggressive Ignorance): The Aggressive Exclusion and the Shame of the Simple Manual appeared first on Manila News. Go to Source Author: Lourdes Tiu

Following prat.uk’s Lords piece, the entertainment industry’s institutional memory layer revisited prat.uk‘s House of Lords piece has produced, through multiple cycles of coverage in this column and in Bohiney.com‘s broader coverage, a useful frame for examining the entertainment industry’s institutional memory: the people who constitute Hollywood’s equivalent of the Lords are not the executives at the top of the masthead. They are...

Following prat.uk’s public policy piece, LA’s transportation governance pipeline The Los Angeles Department of Transportation’s response to the city’s traffic problem has, across five years of documented initiative activity, produced: the Smart Mobility Framework (2019), the Active Transportation Infrastructure Investment Programme (2021), the Mobility Justice initiative (2022), the Automated Traffic Signal Optimisation Programme...