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To all my Muslim friends here and abroad, Eid Mubarak (or Blessed Celebration)! It’s a common greeting on the feast of Eid al-Fitr that marks the end of Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting and good…
Time was when the President of any country was recognized as the “Father” (or “Mother”) of the Nation. Indeed, a favorite way of referring to President Duterte, mostly by his avid followers, is “Tatay (or Daddy)…
I can still remember the days when the media, including the entertainment media, were all over the place talking about HIV/AIDS. Movies were being made about the pandemic, based on the lives of people (remember Dolzura Cortez?)…
Met up, quite by accident, with noted director/documentarist Tikoy Aguiluz this Sunday and we got to talking about the controversy surrounding the choice of eight movies for the Metro Manila Film Festival. The lineup of entries is…
The Supreme Court issues today its ruling on the question of whether the remains of former president and dictator Ferdinand Marcos deserves burial in the Libingan ng mga Bayani, the resting place of heroes. There are those…
For a while there, it looked like activists and political protesters were happy playing footsies with the police and military. Where normally activists, many of them from the Left, would be the first to raise a howl…
Sometimes, not often, you get a reaction from a reader that makes you feel your words make a difference. Or at least make sense. Not everyone, not every reader, will agree with you. And many times, it’s…
In the movie “The Social Network,” which tells of the beginnings of what would be Facebook and the legal tussle over its ownership and management, FB founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, played by Jesse Eisenberg, is…
One of my favorite parts of the movie “The Incredibles” (Pixar/Walt Disney 2004) features costume designer Edna Mode (roughly modeled, it is said, on Hollywood’s Edith Head) explaining to Mr. Incredible why she refuses to design a…
With his relentless pursuit of the “war against drugs,” President Rodrigo Duterte has been giving the impression that it is what his administration is all about. At a recent press conference, he even pooh-poohed the concerns raised…
“Navigating through Uncertainties” was the theme chosen for the day-long panel discussion for the benefit of the international media invited to observe the Nestlé and Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Award last week. But, said the panel moderator,…
Perhaps what so turned off PDu30 about the front-page Inquirer photo of the body of Michael Siaron cradled in the arms of his weeping widow Jennilyn Olayres, which he dismissed as “drama” during his State of the…
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