The landscape according to Caravaggio

12/29/2013

They say that Caravaggio painted As though he were inside a dungeon Or a room deep within a tavern, Where the illumination comes Not from the sun but from a lamp, Which is unseen and seems embedded…

Dawn masses start tomorrow: ‘Only in the Philippines’

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 12/15/2013

Tomorrow marks the start of the traditional nine days of dawn Masses that lead to Christmas eve. The Misa de Gallo or Mass of the Rooster is celebrated only in the Philippnes and nowhere else in the…

Girl, 4, dies in boarding house fire 11 days before Christmas

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 12/15/2013

A 4-year-old girl burned to death while six other persons, including three children, were injured in a fire that destroyed two boarding houses in barangay Parian in Cebu City early morning yesterday. Maria Alexa Mutoc was sleeping…

Survivor’s birthday wish: More chocolates

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/25/2013

Her only wish for her 12th birthday on Wednesday is to have more chocolates. Rizza Flores, the girl who had to endure pain for over two weeks after she was pinned down by a wooden beam when…

Girl trapped in rubble of Leyte house airlifted to Cebu

Ares P. Gutierrez, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/24/2013

There was tension in the air when a convoy of three cars snaked into the tarmac of the Mactan Cebu International Airport early yesterday morning. A Caucasian man wearing a khaki vest and a blue cap directed…

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