The return of Aliwan as the Mother of all Fiestas

ATTY. DENNIS GORECHO 07/18/2023

Filipinos are “visual” people when it comes to faith and history who like to tell stories by acting them out  during festivals. After three years of being in hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Aliwan Fiesta returned…

Sea Sunday: Magna carta should expand, and not limit, the seafarers rights

ATTY. DENNIS GORECHO 07/11/2023

Promote  the rights of the seafarers against abusive employers and unjust placement agencies. This is the call of the Stella Maris Philippines on the occasion of Sea Sunday, which is observed on the second Sunday of July…

Eraserheads, Voltes V and the fight against oppression 

ATTY. DENNIS GORECHO 07/04/2023

The  weapon known as the ultra electromagnetic top, resembling a spinning top, which Voltes V launches from within its torso became the inspiration behind the  Eraserheads’ groundbreaking album, “Ultraelectromagneticpop!”. The album contains the songs “Shake Yer Head”,”Toyang”,…

Pride Month and the campaign for the passage of SOGIESC Equality Bill

ATTY. DENNIS GORECHO 06/27/2023

I first saw the film “Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros” in 2005 when it premiered at the First  Cinemalaya Film Festival of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP). Set in the slums of Manila, the coming-of-age…

Cake and ‘pancit’ for Rizal’s birthday

Ambeth R. Ocampo - @inquirerdotnet 06/21/2023

Rising early is not one of my virtues. Nine years with the National Historical Commission meant sunrise flag raising and floral offerings at national historical sites and landmarks. Waking up at dawn wasn’t the real penance, it…

Close encounter with the women of ‘Noli Me Tangere’

ATTY. DENNIS GORECHO 06/20/2023

It was in 1957 when National Artist for Music Fides Cuyugan Asensio portrayed Sisa in “Noli Me Tangere” opera by Felipe de Leon which  premiered at the FEU Auditorium. Sixty five years later, her granddaughter Nicole Laurel…

Ibarra the musical: Filipinos must not be silenced in the midst of injustices in society

ATTY. DENNIS GORECHO 06/13/2023

My first encounter with Jose Rizal’s novels was  during our high school years since these were required readings. The book “Noli Me Tangere”, published in 1887 and written in Spanish, is a sweeping and passionate unmasking of…

‘Good Bad Mother’: Pigs as symbols of failures and success

ATTY. DENNIS GORECHO 06/06/2023

We grew up watching films and animated series  with pig characters like Porky Pig, Miss Piggy, Three Little Pigs, and Babe. The “Good Bad Mother” is a Korean drama in Netflix about a village piggery with the…

Celebrations of mangoes: ‘There is always light in even the darkest times’

ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO 05/30/2023

Songs of Rivermaya like “Liwanag Sa Dilim” reverberated before a huge crowd at the municipal grounds of Jordan, Guimaras as the highlight of this year’s Manggahan festival. With its  English translation “there is always light in even…

Congratulatory tarps for new lawyers Marawi as the City of Streamers

ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO 05/23/2023

MARAWI City — After the release of the results of the 2022 bar examinations, Marawi City will again be flooded with huge congratulatory tarpaulins for its new lawyers. When I visited Marawi last February, I was really…

Data centers as the third arena

Manuel L. Quezon III - @inquirerdotnet 05/17/2023

As Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger puts it, microchips are the new oil—and will be more important than oil and gas over the next five decades. Because of this, the core national interest of the United States is…

Spending time on Mother’s Day with cancer-afflicted kids

ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO 05/16/2023

The month of May has three significant dates for our family: Mothers’ day, Mama’s birthday and her death anniversary. My mother, fondly called Mama Linda, died on May 17, 2002 due to pericarditis and lymphoma three days…

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