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MANILA, MY MANILA: Season of Advent
BUILDING A SITE
Manila took a long time to make. What is now its ground used to be sea. The sea reached as far as the present towns of Mandaluyong ("a place of waves") and Makati (a place of tides").
It is said that diggers...
Missiles maim the undead, too: Kyiv’s cathedral, the Battle of Manila, and why war erases culture
In the history of mankind, wars have taken away far more than it created anything. The 1945 Battle of Manila and the recent attacks in Ukraine's capital of Kyiv have shown us what we lose as a species when a war—and the people...
18th-century Dutch print of Batanes refutes a Chinese scholar’s territorial claim
A recent report says Chinese scholars at a 30 June 2026 symposium at Jinan University claimed that China has sovereignty over Batanes, describing the islands as a “natural geographical extension” of Taiwan.
Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro rejected the claim as baseless and...
Manila Symphony Orchestra marks 80 years of PH Republic with historic homecoming
The Manila Symphony Orchestra held its third centennial concert entitled “LIBERATION: Celebrating 80 Years of the Philippine Republic” at the Metropolitan Theater last July 4.
The concert marked a symbolic homecoming for the MSO, renewing its long-standing partnership with The Met, a venue associated...
“Pasts Revisited” exhibit extended until July 31
Visitors have more time to experience a unique intersection of history, art, and intellectual resistance, as the Constantino Foundation and Yuchengco Museum have officially extended the run of “Pasts Revisited: An Exhibit on a Usable History and the Romance of Renato Constantino and...
Benilde thesis films bring laughs in Seattle
Two capstone film projects from De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde were recently screened in Seattle, Washington as part of the Diwa at Pagdiriwang Festival.
Programmed under the festival’s “Sometimes You Just Gotta Laugh” block shown last June 7 at the Seattle Center Armory...
