(1) New Notification: Your candidate is now online

By Pola E. del Monte    YOUR CANDIDATE is now online. Political campaigning has expanded beyond the realm of TV, radio, and print media. Today,...

Boom time for Filipino writers

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman PRINT’S NOT DEAD. Philippine Literature is not dead. It’s alive and perhaps, livelier than ever before. Does one need proof? Of...

From #instafame to insta-money:The business of blogging

By Pola Esguerra del Monte A PICTURE is worth a thousand words -- and a thousand pesos, if the caption indicates that it was taken...

Tributes to four National Artists @ 100

IMAGINE that? It is the centennial of not one, not two -- but four of our National Artists this year! In the past two...

The School of Life: Learning outside the classroom

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman THERE’S more to a child’s education than ABCs and 123s. In the words of a genius, Albert Einstein, who...

Meet dance master Paul Harris

HE CHOREOGRAPHED the wand-fight sequences in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, earning him the title “the world’s only wand combat choreographer.”...

NOW HIRING: Must be slim

By Nickky de Guzman WE REGRET to inform you that you have not been selected for the position you are applying for, because you are fat. Or that...

The torogan house : Beyond the bahay kubo

By Carmencita A. Carilla DAVAO CITY -- The last remaining habitable torogan, a traditional Maranao abode for the village royal family, was declared in 1998...

Old-school narrative at Palanca Awards

By Juan EY Arcellana MANY years ago a student dropped out of professor Gemino Abad’s poetry class at the University of the Philippines because...

Amid traffic, airport woes, will you ‘Visit the Philippines Again 2016?’

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman THERE will be 10 regular holidays and nine special non-working days in 2016, the Palace recently announced. Are you...

The parallel worlds of Ramon Magsaysay awardees

By Pola Esguerra del Monte This story began with death — the death, 58 years ago, of the President whom the Filipino people fondly called...

Gawad Plaridel for Ricky Lee

By Susan Claire Agbayani Ricardo Lee, the Philippines’ most prominent screenwriter and one of most influential figures in the film industry, was awarded the 2015...