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...

“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...

When I was still working for another newspaper in Intramuros, I would often see into Nestor Cuartero, who was the entertainment editor of Tempo, a...

Anybody 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...

In a time when historical revisionism is rampant when fake news and lies cloud the judgments of some, museums serve as anchors of truth.  With...

“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...

Seeing 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....

There are two things I always look forward to when the Chinese New Year approaches. Firstly, eating tikoy. I remember we would always receive boxes...

Just the other day, I had a conversation with friends on how modern technology revolutionized the way we live. We might have joked that “if...

“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...