“In being candidates, you need to know that it is a blessing that comes with a responsibility,” Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle told candidates at the Manila Cathedral. “If you win, it means you must represent the people’s dreams and common good.”
Super reimagines the lives of the 2016 presidential aspirants as literature, magnifying their personas and classifying them into anything but...
Top standup comedian Willie Nepomuceno held his election spoof “PangGulo ng Pilipinas” on Saturday night, April 30, to a sold-out crowd at the Music Museum.
Jejomar Binay Vice President Jejomar Binay’s two eldest children—suspended Makati Mayor Jejomar “Junjun” Binay Jr. and Sen. Nancy Binay—are...
In a small, relatively empty but exclusive-looking Makati nightspot called Behind Bar, the country’s five presidential candidates find...
If there’s one activity Vice President Jejomar Binay, former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas and Sen. Grace Poe—all of whom have expressed their plan to run for President—should have in common between now and the 2016 election, it should be to watch the movie “Heneral Luna.”
At the recent launch of “Honorary Woman,” Conrado de Quiros’ biography of Raul S. Roco, there was light banter about who wore the floral shirt first—Roco himself, or former Manila mayor Lito Atienza?
Two presidential candidates remain standing alone, unpartnered, yet looking for someone to fill a role traditionally compared to that of a spare tire. In their cases, though, the search is for a partner who actually can raise their own electoral chances.
Your mantra for the week: “God is the wind beneath my wings.” Fighting poverty has always been in the...
You don’t realize how much energy Christmas takes out of you until you’ve gotten on in age. The season, particularly long as it is in our particularly merry case, ushered in by the first of nine dawn Masses (misa de gallo) before Christmas Day and shown out at the end of New Year week, feels even longer with each passing year. Surely you’ve noticed carols playing in department stores earlier and earlier—actually, every commercially exploitable season is made to run onto the next so that the year becomes one continuous marketing season.