Like the rest of us in the barkada, he used to idolize John Lennon and the Beatles. During breaks between classes, we would hang out in the empty classrooms of the Bunzel Building in the University of…
As a boy, I dreamed of growing up with a pair of black-rimmed eyeglasses, the kind Clark Kent wore in the movie “Superman,” which we watched with mouth agape and eyes wide-open in the theater. Superman’s alter…
A member of the Hijos del Nazareno, those marshals riding the andas or wooden carriage carrying the image of the Black Nazarene, suffered from heart failure in the middle of the commotion during last Friday’s procession in…
When I was a child, I thought all Christmas trees around me were wrong. They didn’t look like the Christmas trees I saw in old American textbooks: A small pine tree decorated with balls, ribbons, candy canes,…
Yesterday was like a vacuum. Everything was eerily still. It was as if the coming storm had sucked out all motion of the universe into itself. This scares me as I recall it was also like this…
It is what artists in Cebu have long been dreaming of — a place of their own somewhere in the city. They have been asking the local government to provide them with space where they can put…
My father came from what could have been a heritage town, the municipality of Del Carmen in Siargao Island. It was formerly called Numancia after a town of the same name in Toledo, Spain. Records show that…
There is an ancient Greek story about how each of us originally had a twin who was separated from us upon birth. We are then condemned to live our lives in search for that missing twin. Some…
To those who have been following his column in CDN, Raymund Fernandez has been known for his oblique take on contemporary issues. Aside from art, which is his usual topic, being a professor at the University of…
As a child, I remember how I was always intrigued by shadows. How, when we are hit by strong light, we cast a shadow, a clingy dark silhouette. Even at that young age, I tried to understand…
I’ve been counting chicks before they are hatched. And no, I’m not saying it as slang or a figure of speech. I’m counting real eggs that will hatch anytime soon. About two weeks ago, a free-range chicken…
Today, I join a group of nine artists from Cebu who are leaving for Paris, France to take part in a month-long art residency and exchange called “Mugna Paris 2013”. The Cebuano artists have been invited to…
