To the public mind, the poet José Corazon de Jesus (1894-1932) is primarily the lyricist behind Constancio C. de Guzman’s famous anthem “Bayan Ko.” Why yes, the culturati would say, wasn’t his pen name Huseng Batute? Why, there’s a little theater at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) named after him? “Bet you didn’t know that!”
Chef Jessie Sincioco’s food should make any noche buena brighter. But she doesn’t cook on Christmas Day; her family does it for her.
Like every April 23, Instituto Cervantes, the cultural arm of the Embassy of Spain, will once again be abuzz with...
Nelland, 18, stuck her tongue out at the end of her repartee. Her head bobbed as she rapidly delivered her lines. Her hands pumped the air in the space between us to the beat of her repartee. She smiled quickly in the end, partly congratulating herself for her successful delivery, and partly to ease the sting of her last line. She just performed her fliptop routine in front of me.
