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Goodbye Pitoy!

Fashion stalwart Pitoy Moreno dies at 92. The local fashion industry’s proverbial flag flew at half-mast following the announcement of Pitoy Moreno’s passing at approximately 2:48 pm on Monday, Jan 15 at Manila Doctor’s Hospital. Friends, colleagues, and admirers of the fashion czar paid their respects at the...

One Hundred Ways to Skin a Cat

There’s this hallowed chestnut in law which says that “what cannot be done directly cannot be done indirectly.”  (It sounds more impressive in Latin, I can assure you, but we won’t get into that.)  It’s an all-purpose phrase which guards against plots to...

Of restless news and spews

Erratic would be an understatement to describe the days leading to this very moment, this tranquil, chilly January dawn moment as I sit here at a hilly resort porch at the foot of the mystical Banahaw; this very moment as I type these...

Fantasy Islands

Imagine, if you will, Harry Roque rushing alongside President Duterte to greet the administration’s Tax Reform Acceleration and Inclusion Law as it crests into view.  “De TRAIN, de TRAIN!”  The TRAIN, signed into law by the President last December 19 and effective on...

Everybody wore black

So did I, not that anyone noticed, but it’s important for us women to stand together, you know, but unlike the gorgeously gowned women at the Golden Globes, I was avoiding the potholes—in flats—on the way to the office.  Unlike me, the ladies...

Gallery: Traslacion 2018

Quiapo Church timeline The Quiapo Church is formally called the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene and the Parish of St. John the Baptist. Below is the history of the church, as well as the statue of the Black Nazarene and the devotion that...

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V is for vérité

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The sisterhood of the childbearing scrubs

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Henry Sy Sr. led the professionalization of SM group

Before the death of Henry Sy Sr., the country’s acknowledged retail king, he made sure that the professionalization of the company he built from...

All downhill from there

Once you start a boulder rolling downhill, there is no hope of stopping it.  It is equally hopeless to push it back uphill as...