TO write “30” in the journalism racket is to end the story. Old-school news reporters used to end their dispatches by typing three X’s: “30” being the Arabic equivalent of the Roman number XXX. Since it’s one keystroke less, reporters started the practice of typing “30” to signify the end.
WHEN 20-year-old Ben D. encountered his first bomb threat while taking the entrance exam for law, he expected the whole ordeal to include explosions and lots of action.
“MA’AM, how do you know it’s a zombie?” the officer- in-charge asked her, when she rang up the homeowners’ association, and Ayen was frankly stumped. So she shouted at him, which obviously is not the brightest thing for anyone to do when hoping for prompt service.
AS FAR AS celebrity heritage goes, it can’t be easy living in the shadow of a former beauty queen and a pop icon. But Angelo Alihaj Diaz Alejandro, or Ali,
TOTOO naman ’yun (It’s true),” deadpans Freddie Webb when told that he was undisputably better at basketball than his progenies—grandson Joshua and son Jason who have similarly excelled at the
THE day was February 18, 1976, and Crispulo Migriño was among the 70 passengers on a bus bound for Mindanao. Suddenly the bus was strafed with bullets coming from both
So what do you do if you get a text message warning of an impending explosion from a planted bomb? Worse, what if you receive a suspicious package from an unknown sender?
EVERYTHING about Nikki Alfar is big. She’s physically tall, brassy and loud. She smokes a lot. Her voice booms. Her spoken sentences are rigged with exclamations, profanities and laughter.
I still remember how I was invited to join the team. I got a phone call back in 2006 from Alya Honasan, SIM’s editor in chief at the time. I still remember the Nokia handset I was holding. The Magazine was being re-launched with Leica Carpo as publisher, she explained, and would I be interested to write about food. I jumped at the opportunity and immediately said yes.
SOME bands are born with the blues, some achieve the blues, and some have the blues thrust upon them.
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