Coming-of-age novel now a movie
Simon Spier (Nick Robinson) has one secret: He is gay. He falls in love with a mysterious boy online. But when Simon’s secret is threatened, he must face everyone and come to terms with his identity.
Simon Spier (Nick Robinson) has one secret: He is gay. He falls in love with a mysterious boy online. But when Simon’s secret is threatened, he must face everyone and come to terms with his identity.
The standing record of the earliest human activity in the Philippines has now been eclipsed as archaeological discoveries in Rizal, Kalinga, reveal human presence in the country dating back to 709,000 years ago.
The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) closed its current season at Cultural Center of the Philippines with a concert that displayed the “Fukumura touch,” that brilliant, silken symphonic tone that has become the hallmark of PPO’s Japanese music director and conductor Yoshikazu Fukumura.
Fictional activist nun played by Vilma Santos in the famous movie is said to have been patterned after Good Shepherd sisters
This year’s University of Santo Tomas (UST) National Writers’ Workshop, organized by the UST Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies (CCWLS), had 15 fellows, the most number of participants since its revival seven years ago. We had a screenwriter (Nigel Santos); two playwrights (Gil Nambatac and Manuel Tinio); four essayists (Kristine Estioko, Ria Valdez, Bayani Gabriel and Riddick Recoter); four fictionists (Yan Baltazar, Pat Onte, Keanu Reyes and Karl “Kid” Orit); and four poets (Edmark Tan, Hans Malgapu, Soc delos Reyes and this writer).
National Artist for Literature Cirilo Bautista, one of the country’s most passionate authors to contribute to the progress of Philippine literature, passed away on Sunday at the Philippine Heart Center. He was 76.
A man immersed in the greatness of the creative word throughout his life, Cirilo Francisco Bautista died yesterday at the age of 76. Bautista was elevated to the Order of the National Artist (ONA) of the Philippines in 2014 by President Benigno Aquino. He is survived by his wife Rosemarie and three children.
Zinzi Clemmons, author of “What We Lose,” tweeted that the Pulitzer Prize winner forcibly kissed her while she was a graduate student.
Augusto Villalón, architect and cultural heritage conservation advocate who spearheaded the listing of several Philippine historical and natural landmarks in the very prestigious World Heritage List of the United Nations
NEW YORK — A prominent art collector has filed a lawsuit against the auction house Sotheby’s to block his daughter from selling a masterpiece by Jean-Michel Basquiat that’s worth an
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