Say Palawan, and one automatically thinks The Last Frontier—where Nature begins and never ends. The island-province perennially appears on annual...
Two years ago, on a late afternoon, tour operator and performance artist Carlos Celdran was arrested for reportedly interrupting Mass in Manila Cathedral to stage a protest against priests and bishops interfering with the passage of the Reproductive Health Bill.
People of Negros are known revolucionarios—from the Spanish colonial period, when its leaders like Aniceto Lacson put up the Republic of Negros, through the martial-law years, when religious like Bishop Antonio Fortich advanced the preferential option for the poor.
Many seemed rather puzzled, if not surprised, when Filipino-Canadian artist Lani Maestro was chosen as one of our two representatives at last year’s Venice Art Biennale, which closed Nov. 22.
In the purple haze of twilight, silhouettes of a robust lad and a limber lass bearing lanterns that emanate blue and green light can be seen on a cliff overlooking the sea. They are the chieftain Lapu-Lapu and his wife Bulakna.
The Philippine Daily Inquirer, founded on Dec. 9, 1985, as part of the “mosquito press,” helped dismantle the Marcos dictatorship in February 1986.
Something crucial to the understanding of the subject not seen by most guests at the launch of “The Life and Times of Purita Kalaw-Ledesma” was, quite literally, just above their heads.
A tourism video made the news when it went viral last week, surprising even its makers.
Art cultivates “a particular set of sensitivities,” that is, a different mind-set. That was how Ateneo de Manila University president...
As much as Caviteños are inordinately proud of their role in the Philippine Revolution, they’re also often reviled, and probably misunderstood, for the execution of Katipunan founder Andrés Bonifacio by men of General Emilio Aguinaldo.
