Traditional healing in downtown Cebu

Delta Dyrecka Letigio USJ-R Journalism Intern 09/11/2018

Mark and Susan have a three-month-old baby who just started teething. At night, the young couple barely gets to sleep as their child constantly wails in pain at the growth of his first molars. After several days…

THE LOST BOOKSTORES OF DOWNTOWN CEBU (Part 2)

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 08/01/2018

JANE’S WALK I HAVE never been to the Cebu Music House or Gaisano Super Bookstore. My earliest memory of downtown Cebu was the Gazini Plaza, where my mother bought me a copy of a Cinderella book for…

THE LOST BOOKSTORES OF DOWNTOWN CEBU

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 07/25/2018

  There was a time in the past when downtown Cebu was a destination for bibliophiles and bookworms. The bookstores did not boost of air-conditioned spaces or nooks that sold macchiato or cappuccino. They were plain and…

Carbon Market, small downtown shops offer cheap school supplies

Nestle L. Semilla and John Michael Aroa 06/02/2018

JENNY Mae Hermoso is a mother of two grade schoolers from Liloan town in northern Cebu. To get to Cebu City, she needs to endure more than an hour of travel amidst damning traffic. But she doesn’t…

Pirated DVDs, VCDs seized in downtown raid

Jessa Mae Sotto 03/24/2018

Police and members of the Optical Media Board (OMB) seized sacks of pirated DVDs and VDCs during a raid on Saturday, in Colon St. Cebu City. At least 12 stalls were raided by the operatives. Raids were…

Thief caught for triggering fire alarm in downtown Cebu City building

Benjie B. Talisic 01/15/2018

What started as a fire alarm ended as a theft alarm after personnel from the Parian Police Station found a burglar inside the UV Building in Colon Street, Barangay Parian Cebu City this afternoon. Firefighters rushed to…

Downtown consolation

STEPHEN CAPILLAS 07/27/2017

While there are some rumblings over Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña’s plan to ban private vehicles in the downtown area, which I think comprises Colon Street and its neighboring environs, the rationale behind it sounds feasible enough.…

Holy innocents

Jason A. Baguia 01/06/2017

Alady had tucked two images of the Holy Child Jesus as king into a stroller. That was not what first captured my attention under one of the bleachers in the churchyard. Rather, I was drawn to the…

New eats from old friends: Two new restaurants to try this season

Jude Bacalso 12/20/2016

COCINA DE LA CASA #8 Morales Street, (behind Harold’s Hotel) +63 32 4010750 Stephen Aznar’s now defunct Café Elysa in Parian was my go-to downtown eats destination. The stories he weaves with his food always fascinated me,…

The good life

Clint Holton Potestas 10/17/2016

I AM thrilled now because I have a list of names of those who did tear my heart. I’d enumerate them at the podium and—to save my face from shame—escape thereafter through the back door of the…

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