BEFORE his name became synonymous with the ongoing family rift over his estate, Potenciano Ilusorio was a successful lawyer and businessman
We just celebrated the 70th anniversary of the historical landing in Leyte. Has it been that long? Unlike with more recent headline events, there are not too many people I can ask, “Where were you when it happened?”
In search of a personal legacy, a direct and hopefully heroic connection to a crossroads in their nation’s history, postwar children asked their fathers, “What did you do in the war, Daddy?”
Malou Jacob’s ‘Macli-ing’ dramatizes the lives, beliefs and culture of the peoples of the Cordillera
Beyond the iconic Barasoain Church in the bustling Bulacan provincial capital of Malolos are heritage structures and areas that tourists, and even residents, could explore to appreciate the city’s important place in shaping Philippine history.
I do not remember the Jai Alai. I have never marveled at the flame trees that once lined the paseo to Luneta. Not once have I walked through Escolta in all its glory, when it exuded glamour comparable to stylish European boulevards.
A slender woman rose from the audience and did an impromptu flamenco, twirling about and whirling her mantilla, as Russian bass-baritone Nikolai Massenkoff sang the Gypsy ballad “Ochi Chyornye.”
George Ade’s “Stories of Benevolent Assimilation (of the Philippines)” originally appeared in the Chicago Record once a week, from July 8 to Oct. 18, 1899, until collected in book form. George Ade was anti-imperialist like Mark Twain (who was passionate and sarcastic in his comments). George Ade, on the other hand, was “superior and amused,” “pricking the pretensions of the expansionists.” Here is a reproduction of another story.
I move through life with confidence and a sense of humor and my days are filled with delight!
One man’s dirt is another man’s patina. Quite often, what we have come to define as the “character”...
