Third season of Southside Basketball League comes off the wraps on June 1

Mars G. Alison 05/19/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines—The Prayboys hopes to bring over their dominance to the Season 3 of the Southside Basketball League (SBL), which will roll off on June 1, 2019 at the basketball court of the Sacred Heart Center.…

Christmas comes early for Lapu kids

Norman V. Mendoza 12/02/2018

Having been abandoned at birth, there is little wonder why 20-year-old Paul Niño Alvez chose to care for abandoned children. For a decade now Alvez spent Christmas parties with children at Lapu-Lapu City Hall’s Homecare for Children…

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY: FREDDIE MERCURY COMES ALIVE

Jeff Ruffolo 11/01/2018

WHERE were you in 1975? Well, I had just graduated from El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California. Every morning I listened to rock music blaring out from my battery-powered, AM transistor radio as I…

Darrell Shane Menina comes back to play for UC

Jonas Rey N. Panerio 06/17/2018

A TEAM that lacked backcourt bite last season is suddenly teeming with it as the University of Cebu (UC) Webmasters has recruited spitfire guard Darrell Shane Menina to their fold from the National University Bulldogs. The move…

Here comes Japan

Clint Holton Potestas 05/08/2018

WITH her two daughters, Marichu Tan could be anywhere between a pensive stare at a distance at the foot of the Eiffel Tower and a demure smile—crossed legs, a thick bouclé scarf around her neck—atop a hill…

Human rights in the Age of Pop Culture

Raymund Fernandez 01/09/2018

Since 1967, we have come into the age of Popular Culture. This claim comes from the quaint perspective of a painter. 1967 was when Pop artist Andy Warhol caused the making of the painting “Brillo Box.” This…

When Christmas comes for Adlaon kids

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 12/19/2017

Rayver Cleve Ardita, 10, knows what an apple is as it often comes out in school discussions. But he has never tasted one. That is why for Christmas, Rayver and 59 children of Barangay Adlaon, a mountain…

After the silence, comes the music

Ador Vincent Mayol 12/10/2017

After more than 40 years of silence, Argao town’s historic pipe organ was played anew to a new generation of Catholic faithful at the Archdiocesan Shrine of St. Michael the Archangel last Saturday evening. From sacred music…

A Flavier Pablo comes alive anew

Jobers R. Bersales 08/30/2017

Very little is known about the Manila-based portraitist Severino Flavier Pablo (1800–1870), but his paintings live on. One of these, which he painted in the final years of his life, saw the light of day again last…

Blending in

Editorial 06/16/2017

Coincidence or not, the arrest of a suspected Maute terrorist bomber in Cagayan de Oro comes just as the Supreme Court has ended oral arguments on the legality or validity of President Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration of martial…

The system

Raymund Fernandez 05/02/2017

This is all about feeding Mr. Toise. We say it like the French — Mister Twa, short for Tortoise, Mr. Tortoise. But he may well be a she. She needs to be a few more years older…

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