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The Little Prince of six-strings cross paths with the Rogue Traveler

  Three claps silenced the whole place. Everyone transfixed their gaze to the person on the stage, the Executive Director of Alliance Française de Manille, Jean Pierre Dumont. He announced that the show will start in a while. I proceeded to my seat right after...

On ‘True Enchantment’

Very rarely do I hear fiction writers disparaged for their fiction like it was some crime or disease people should steer clear of. Not from a film critic, playwright or anyone involved in the writing art. Not from a newspaperman, however thinly veiled. As a...

Meeting the Order of National Artists for film and the search for food

Aside from the raging buses and jeepneys on Taft Avenue, the sun gave no mercy to the sidewalk vendors and pedestrians who sometimes, if not often, intentionally not use the proper crossing lane. And I am no exemption to that. It was break time....

Can you define, for me, the essay?

I have, more than once dreamt, of the chance to reach out to as many students and teachers of writing as possible, be that in journalism or literature. I feel every writer of some experience must hold fast to this responsibility of sharing...

Criminal liability means adult responsibility

A caveat: I’m no lawyer. As a writer, I work mainly along the neighborhood of logic. And logic tells me that the bill lowering the age of criminal liability can have unintended consequences. Legal and societal perception as to what a child is according...

Twin blasts at Jolo Cathedral leave 21 dead, dozens wounded

Twenty-one people dead. Ninety-seven injured. That was the toll when two bombs exploded at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Jolo on July 27. The twin explosions occurred about a few minutes apart, survivors said. The first explosion took place inside...

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Carmen Linda Atayde: Life in perfect phases

Like a flawlessly solved puzzle, everything fell into place for Carmen Linda Macasil-Atayde by the time she reached the age of 25. In 1965, at...

Graphic days & nights with Frank Sionil Jose

On the last day of his 97-year stay on earth, National Artist Frank Sionil Jose wrote about the Philippines and his hometown of Rosales,...

Huh?

Utter nonsense is what it is, all this talk about establishing a revolutionary government.  I spewed my morning latté all over my blouse when...

Two tales from World War II: The fall and rise of Japan (First of 2 parts)

On August 15, 1945, the Japanese people heard their Emperor Hirohito’s voice for the first time in a radio broadcast. The Emperor announced to...