PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte himself acknowledged the role of media—particularly the Inquirer—by way of a tribute to its editor in chief Letty Jimenez Magsanoc (“LJM”) when she passed away.
In life, Michael Siaron was all but invisible, just one of the faceless masses barely getting by on the mean streets of Metro Manila.
It was almost full house on a Tuesday night at Historia featuring the AMP Big Band and its current female lead singer Gail Blanco. Dubbed as a “boutique bar and restaurant,” Historia has been drawing in a good crowd with its regular schedule of top-rate live acts.
The people are tired. They would rather be working in their jobs, playing with their children, writing books, watching plays, eating out, meeting friends, eating, laughing, flirting.
Nothing, it seems—not even the fear of extra-judicial killings—can keep Filipinos from looking forward to a merry Christmas.
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