Archive - Arts & Culture

  By KIMMY BARAOIDAN Photos by CHRIS QUINTANA and KIMMY BARAOIDAN A boy scribbled on a bench while volunteer parents clean the school surroundings. Clad in blue and armed with hoes and broomsticks, parents together with students , teachers, school officials, parents, and other volunteers gathered at the Nicolas L. Galvez Memorial National High School

  By PABLO A. TARIMAN SOME untold stories of filmmaker Lino Brocka before he became National Artist for Film are indeed the stuff of legend. He was virtually in all protest rallies. His house was almost always full of hungry peasants from Samar to the consternation of his mother. He fought endless battles with shameless

   Text and photos by ELIZABETH LOLARGA CORAZON Gaufo Patarata could have risen to the rank of ambassador extraordinary or retired with a similar magisterial title in recognition of her skills, hard work, sacrifice, her having imbibed what true public service meant. She retired at age 49 in 2006 as minister counsellor, the second highest

 By DIANA G. MENDOZA    DOLZURA. Esther. Kathy. Sarah Jane. The country’s first reported case of AIDS in 1984 was an unidentified male, but by this list of names alone, it was the females who gave a public face to HIV and AIDS in the Philippines. The first wave of HIV infections recorded in the

  By COOPER RESABAL MARIBOJOC, Bohol – A community-based tourism program has become a rehabilitation alternative for a village that was severely damaged by the October 15, 2013 earthquake in the tourist island of Bohol in the central Philippines. Barely six months after the 7.2 intensity tremor that damaged many structures, including houses and century-old

  Text and photos by CHERRY JOY VENILES RAINS  have started to come, signaling the end of summer, but that didn’t stop the holding of the Santacruzans as culminating event of Flores de Mayo. Sagat, in the working class district of Paco, Manila, was vibrant last Sunday with the holding of the annual Santacruzan. Flores

    By PATRICK KING PASCUAL AS of May this year, 966 Filipinos have already died of AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) since 1984. To remember those who had passed on because of the AIDS pandemic, members of the people living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLHIV) community and support groups, organizations and foundations held a candlelight

    By KIMMY BARAOIDAN Photos by CHRIS QUINTANA and KIMMY BARAOIDAN FAITH and mysticism are deeply embedded in the daily life in Dolores, Quezon, a quaint village at the foot of Mt. Banahaw. Where the concrete road ends is a flea market where, aside from farm produce, one finds fascinating items: stones and tree

  By ELIZABETH LOLARGA PIANIST Albert Tiu had a lot of practicing to do at the time of this interview, and yet he still managed to send his detailed words on his life. It is a full, hectic life where he can be called on to be at any given time a solo performer, chamber

 TEXT AND PHOTOS BY REYNARD MAGTOTO “WITHOUT this, maybe it will be too hard for me to provide food for my family since I don’t have any better job,” Delma Loveres said as she took the two pinurons  alternately inserted in the threads in the wooden handloom to demonstrate how to weave an exquisite placemat. She

      By NORMAN SISON FIRST and foremost, the museum exhibit is about the corporate history of a Spanish cigar company that brought Philippine cigars to the world. But the exhibit about Compañia General de Tabacos de Filipinas can also be seen as a reminiscing into the glory days when Philippine cigars rivaled Cuban

  By PABLO A. TARIMAN THE recently-concluded international tourism convention in Albay has once more spotlighted the need for disaster-prone countries to draw up alternative ways of promoting tourism even as they are constantly threatened by effects of climate change. It could not have been held in a more appropriate venue. Albay bore the brunt