After a long day of lockdown, how ‘essential’ is a drink?
Some countries have banned alcohol, others say liquor shops are essential services, and one top official even suggested a tipple after another long…
Conservation is about managing change, a concept contrary to public perception that “correct” conservation demands that heritage structures be either frozen or returned to their original state.
Admission to the National Museum in Ermita, Manila and its branches nationwide is free to the public for the whole month of October.
In her vivid account of the first day of Manila’s Liberation on Feb. 3, 1945, Conchita C. Razon (Inquirer, Feb. 3, 2013, page D2) writes: “There were rumors of plans to execute the internees.” How well-founded were these rumors?
Juan Crisostomo Soto’s landmark ‘Alang Dios!’ returns Feb. 9, 10 and 11 at Angeles City’s Holy Angel University Theater
TODAY is the 125th birth anniversary of Elpidio Quirino.
What are our children learning about martial law from their history class? Selective memory might make the older generation remember martial law for its most enduring effects on them, but today's youngsters get their glimpse of that era in recommended doses through their Araling Panlipunan textbook. The subject is taught to high school freshmen during the fourth quarter of the schoolyear.
Among all the libraries established in rural China, Heshun Library is renowned as one of the earliest and largest, as well as for its special history.
When Pilar Benavides Estrada joined the Manila Symphony Orchestra (MSO) in 1945, she was only 15, the youngest member to...
Thieves and art dealers are the usual suspects, but mildew and flashbulbs are just as dangerous for some of the Philippines' beleaguered cultural treasures.
The canonocal image of Nuestra Señora del Rosario de la Naval de Manila is undoubtedly an ancient sacred ivory icon that deserves admiration, not unwanted controversy, in this country.
