Minting the arts
A few weeks ago, while surfing the net and loitering on Facebook, I was surprised to find out that Pugad Baboy, one of my all-time...
Read moreA few weeks ago, while surfing the net and loitering on Facebook, I was surprised to find out that Pugad Baboy, one of my all-time...
Read more“Whatever happened to Victoria?” “Victoria – who?” Not who, what. Before the name got associated with the famous Spice Girl member or a popular lingerie fashion...
Read moreWhen I was still working for another newspaper in Intramuros, I would often see into Nestor Cuartero, who was the entertainment editor of Tempo, a...
Read moreAnybody can be a painter, but not everyone can be a printmaker. It is a statement that printmaker-visual artist Fil Delacruz shared with us in...
Read moreIn a time when historical revisionism is rampant when fake news and lies cloud the judgments of some, museums serve as anchors of truth. With...
Read more“Is that normal?” a friend asked when I told her that we would be burying our departed loved one in a gravestone built in the...
Read moreSeeing young musicians perform onstage (virtually or in-person) gives me that overwhelming feeling and makes me think that the future has never been so bright....
Read moreThere are two things I always look forward to when the Chinese New Year approaches. Firstly, eating tikoy. I remember we would always receive boxes...
Read moreJust the other day, I had a conversation with friends on how modern technology revolutionized the way we live. We might have joked that “if...
Read more“Bari-bari, magmagnakami apo.” A phrase I would usually utter while walking along a dimly-lit road with thick foliage. An Ilocano expression I learned and grew...
Read moreThe MT Princess Empress, which sank three weeks ago with its cargo of 800,000 liters of industrial fuel oil, has...
Read moreTHE defense secretaries of the United States and the Philippines jointly denounced China’s “gray-zone” operations—activities that just fall short of...
Read moreSpeaker Martin G. Romualdez on Tuesday urged the Philippine National Police (PNP) to strictly enforce a one-strike policy against “ninja...
Read morePresident Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered government agencies to study Executive Order No. 138 for possible amendments and to determine what...
Read moreThe House of Representatives on Tuesday approved on final reading a bill that will allow married women to retain their...
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