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By Jake Soriano (Screenshots from YouTube) It had been a most satisfying year for Philippine cineastes. Here are ten  films this year that made going to movies an enriching experience: Apocalypse Child (Mario Cornejo, Philippines). A surfing instructor in Baler (who may or may not be the child of Apocalypse Now director Francis Ford Coppola)

Chancellor Dr. Michael Tan: “The pet run in October and the Lantern Parade contingent should help convince people pets are not just OK, but integral to UP Diliman”

Puzzle Café, which Canoy and her siblings set up in Quezon City a year ago, aims to raise awareness on autism and train persons with developmental disabilities for employment.

    By PATRICK KING PASCUAL  “MORE than the parade, more than the march and festival, this celebration is the delivery of actual programs and policies for LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) people,” Percival Cendaña, commissioner of the National Youth Commission, said of the recent LGBT Pride celebration in Quezon City. The celebration took special

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By YVETTE B. MORALES DESPITE a law mandating the creation of a Persons with Disability Affairs Office (PDAO) in all cities and municipalities across the country, Makati and San Juan have yet to comply. Officials say the size of their PWD population has influenced their decision to go slow on the establishment of the office

By VERLIE Q. RETULIN TAGUIG City prides itself as one of the first local government units to establish its own Persons with Disability Affairs Office (PDAO). In 2011, almost two years after Republic Act 10070 was signed into law, a city ordinance was issued mandating the creation of the PDAO and the abolition of then Office

  By JAKE C. SORIANO The “Nick” in the movie “Dahlin’ Nick,” is the famous Filipino writer, Nick Joaquin. With a running time of more than three hours, “Dahlin’ Nick,” directed by Sari Dalena with Raymond Bagatsing playing the title role, is many things: hybrid docu-fiction, historical epic, biographical film. Yet, what makes it stunningly original

  By NORMAN SISON SOME Filipino moviegoers had several questions after watching the historical film “Heneral Luna,” which ran for eight weeks. That’s a milestone for local movie standards. Did Emilio Aguinaldo have his own commander of the then nascent Philippine Army in 1899, Gen. Antonio Luna, assassinated? Were there really women who fought as

 By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS OCTOBER has been designated as the month for the Elderly. In a world where we celebrate youth and vigor and everything is digital, to be old is considered a burden and to be ignorant about Facebook and Twitter is considered a defect. If you feel irritated by your parents ignorance or

Why Luna died at the hands of his own countrymen is a fact that rankles Filipinos to this day. And like many unsolved crimes in the Philippines today, people have an idea who the mastermind was.

  By MYLAH R. ROQUE “HENERAL LUNA” is a movie that deconstructs the stereotype of Antonio Luna as a “barumbado” who did not win any wars and was a lesser hero than his contemporaries. The movie showed a very human and flawed Luna played by John Arcilla: he had a violent temper  and  he put