How to be smart and sensible about self-care
Invited to talk about self-care on the Unlock Philippines podcast, I discussed how the lockdown might have driven us to try out…
TODAY is the 125th birth anniversary of Elpidio Quirino.
A folk artist who draws from—and is revered by—the folk community is Elito Villaflor Circa, the contemporary folk artist of...
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.
A story is told that, in 1989, New York wine merchant William Sokolin tried to sell a bottle of 1787...
At the foothills of the Sierra Madre in Rizal province, before it wends its way through Bulacan and Quezon province farther north to Cagayan Valley, is a spectacular gorge that birthed one of the country’s most beloved legends.
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.
An awed Franciscan friar, Juan Francisco de San Antonio, on coming upon these shores in early 18th century, observed that in the Philippines “the whole year resembles spring.”
It had to happen again. One was a case of addition, this time it’s subtraction. Five years ago, the controversy over the worthiness of four personages proclaimed National Artists by President Gloria Arroyo stole the thunder from those whose eminent worth was unquestioned.
It is 40 minutes flight from Manila to Coron. SkyJet, the country’s first boutique airline, has four flights daily to Busuanga.
Of course not!—was Helena Z. Benitez’s retort when a TV journalist recently asked her whether she ever regretted not having married and started a family.
