Friday night opened the third exhibit of our printmaking classes in the University of San Carlos Department of Fine Arts at the Tres de Abril Hall of Palm Grass Hotel in Junquera Street. Traditionally entitled “Patik,” this…
No, this is not about our President’s big mouth. I’m talking about real garbage, the one we throw to the bin every day and bring out to the waiting truck. It’s the smelly, unsightly and appetite-destroying ubiquitous…
Crosshatching When asked in during the campaign period about her relationship with her former student who had then become his fellow candidate in the last presidential elections, the late Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago recalled how she once visited…
Thursday night found me enjoying a shot of bahalina (a finer version of tuba or coconut wine), a platter of grilled pulutan, and the view of citylights at the Hardin Dagami, the rooftop bar on the seventh…
Crosshatching Since the start of the campaign season during the last elections, politics in the Philippines has never ceased to be divisive, making Filipinos fight each other in a brutal and vicious battle of opinion in the…
While we Filipinos are now all trying to get used to President Rodrigo Duterte’s habit of swearing in public, a tendency he himself admitted that he could not always control, the international community is, of course, always…
A friend of mine posted a status recently about how the former dictator first tried to flirt with the military so that once they’re in the bag, “the tanks rolled on with ease.” There was no mention…
I am happy to see that political science students from the University of San Carlos (USC) came out of their classrooms to hold a demonstration just outside the school’s downtown campus in protest of the recent spate…
Now that we are trying to decentralize economic and political power in this the country by shifting to a federal form of government, it is about time that we should also think of how we can also…
In trying to manipulate the public sentiment, no one masters the craft better than the director of cinema. This is the reason why filmmakers are often sought to collaborate in state propaganda. Inspired by recent behaviorist theory…
There’s a Cebuano word used to describe something that has split or cracked open: kang-a. In my hometown Surigao City, where Cebuano is commonly spoken besides the local dialect, kang-a has taken on a new meaning. It…
I woke up to a sudden blast of light beamed on my face. A gloved hand then tapped my arm as the man standing before me said: “Wake up. This is a raid.” His flashlight scanning…
