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TRIBUTE: Cirilo F. Bautista, 76, National Artist for Literature by Alma Anonas-Carpio
Poet, fictionist, essayist and National Artist for Literature Cirilo F. Bautista has passed away after a long battle with muscular dystrophy. Cirilo was 76, and had worked as a professor of literature at De La Salle University, Manila, eventually being named Professor Emeritus...
The Bedan Roar: Roaring against Censorship by Joel Pablo Salud
It was mid-morning of a torrid desert-like Monday, the 23rd of April, when, scrolling down my Facebook newsfeed, an image wooshed past me. I scrolled back, and there it was: a magazine cover reputedly belonging to San Beda high school’s The Bedan Roar.
The...
Woman on the verge of a Twitter breakdown by Marie Yuvienco
To those who think that they have heard the last of Kris Aquino now that her brother is no longer President, they can now relieve themselves. She’s back. Not just with plain vengeance, but with a gadget I presume to be a smartphone which...
Hiroshima’s Legacy of Peace (Part 1) by Jose Antonio Custodio
I. The Bombing
On the early morning of August 6, 1945, Colonel Paul Tibbets of the 393rd Bombardment Squadron of the U.S. Army Air Force coaxed his heavily laden B-29 Superfortress named Enola Gay to the air, enroute to the city of Hiroshima 1,569...
The princess and the corn
by Marie Yuvienco
There’s this legal koan relating to free speech cases that’s supposed to stump first-year students of constitutional law. Why it’s necessary to stump first-year law students as they tend to be stupid anyways has never been satisfactorily explained, but the question...
Jeepney phaseout: Modernization for whom?
by Michelle Lado
Last March 17, various jeepney drivers and operators in the country conducted a transport strike to protest the PUV modernization program of the government.
According to the transport group PISTON (Pinagkaisang Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Operator Nationwide), the protest centers in...
