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Julian Miguel Bondoc Alquinto: Poetry, Kid Andromeda, and saving the world
His mother remembers with fondness where she got the name for her only son.
“It’s a favorite name of mine. Sa lahat ng tula ko noon na sinusulat, nandoon ang karakter ni Julian from the movie Julian Makabayan. And his father, Mike, wanted...
Kitchen confidence: Pandemic essentials
I’m assured that the provisions you are sending will have a hard time getting through, even in a crate,” wrote the journalist Colette to her friend, the writer Renée Hamon. It was November 16, 1940, mere months into the Nazi occupation of Paris....
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 the young age of 23, she graduated with a degree in Chemical Engineering from the Mapua Institute of Technology....
Goodbye, Kuya Eddie
The first time I saw him was in 1965 and I was about five to six years old. He came to our house in Roxas District, Quezon City to attend the birthday bash of my late father, short story writer, and public relations...
The last caravan
Text and photo by Bernard Testa
Fifty-five year old Ben Sison is the last of Marikina’s ‘caravan riders.’
For 10 years, he joined 19 others like him, all from his native town of San Carlos in Pangasinan province.
Each traveled to Manila, selling cribs, walkers, brooms,...
The plight of ABS-CBN: Of dual citizenship and foreign ownership of mass media
By Justice Noel Gimenez Tijam (Ret.)
Robust debates recently sparked following the renewal initiatives of the congressional franchise of a mass media giant that is ABS-CBN. Some propose a rather simplified solution to the controversy by invoking past legislative acts where the lower House...
