A bookshop can exemplify the intelligence and the passion of a city. This was what Kristian Sendon Cordero realized when the award-winning writer was a fellow at the prestigious International
The dearth of theater in Naga City gave a few Bikolista culture vultures among us a reason to travel to Legazpi City, not for the expensive unhealthy colonizer’s donuts and coffee some crow make that city the “most exciting,” but for their theater par excellence.
In a coffee shop with mellow lighting and murals dominated by a huge portrait of national hero Andres Bonifacio, lawyer and street photographer Allan Reiz Macaraig picked out a heart-shaped, pink post-it from a glass window and put it on the table.
Here’s a tip: If you want to talk to Enchong Dee for hours on end, engage him in a topic he loves—business.
The Nestle Chef to Chef cooking demo took me to Naga City in Bicol province. It was my first time to go there.
Monsignor Leonardo Z. Legaspi, OP, the archbishop emeritus of Nueva Caceres (Naga City) and the highest-ranking Filipino Dominican ecclesiastic, died last Aug. 8—feast of St. Dominic, founder of the Order of Preachers, or the Dominicans. He will be buried on Aug. 15, feast of the Assumption.
The Philippine Center of International PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Essayists, Novelists) will hold For Love of the Word: Workshops on Teaching Philippine Literature in High School and College, today, July 28, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., at Ateneo de Naga University, Naga City, Camarines Sur.
Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day is always celebrated every year in Baler, Aurora, to commemorate the Siege of Baler and to improve the already amicable relations between Madre Espana and her onetime rebellious colony.
Thirty years ago Dr. Bill Magee and his wife Kathleen, a nurse, came to the Philippines on a medical mission. They led a team that operated on children, and some adults, with cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial disfigurements in Naga City.
With its low unguarded gate, the unremarkable two-story townhouse of the Robredos on Dayangdang Street in Naga City encourages easy access from the main road. Anyone can just enter the gate, knock on the door and engage the city’s former mayor in a neighborly chat or, on a really bad day, target him for a quick, easy assassination.
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