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68th Palanca Awards winners feted

The 68th Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature feted its winners, most of whom were new voices in the literary scene, as well...

2018 NJLA winners honored

Three women took home the bacon at the 2018 Nick Joaquin Literary Awards on Sept. 25. Business writer and novelist VJ Campilan took first...

Literature as it unfolds

That time of year has come again, and the panel of judges convenes to pick the winners of the 2018 Nick Joaquin Literary Awards....

The Manila Grand Opera Hotel: Rich in history, luxe in Manila

Manila Grand Opera Hotel offers luxe accommodations in the center of historic Manila. This hotel takes its name from the Manila Grand Opera House...

BuyBust: Put a big gun in a pretty woman’s hands

Let’s begin with this: Anne Curtis, in the lead role of Nani Manigan, is no tweetums in this movie. BuyBust is gritty and it...

Much ado over media regulation

Media should not—ever—be regulated by government. That would defeat the democratic principle of a free and independent press, one of the best benchmarks for...

How poetry and freedom mix

It isn’t often one gets to do a sit-down interview under the spreading branches of an acacia tree, while sprawled on one’s trench coat...

Speaking Genital in translation: Beverly Wico Siy’s ‘Pukiusap’

Where Eve Ensler gave us the freedom to use the many words there are for lady bits in “The Vagina Monologues,” Beverly Wico Siy...

Newsroom geek

Let me begin this story by saying I am not tech support. Most technology reporters and editors have been known to say this to...

The graphic word: poetry as comic book art

Poetry is the primal root of all tales and prayers, all writing, really. It is first in the poem that humans attempted to capture...