How to avoid ‘money mistakes’
CARLA BIANCA V. RAVANES Carla Bianca V. Ravanes WHEN you have lunch with a young and impressionable group of yuppies, you can expect to talk about everything and anything under the sun. The latest...
View ArticleFirst teaching hotel in PH is now a world-class destination
LEA MANTO-BELTRAN AFTER completing renovations worth close to P250 million, Hotel Benilde Maison De La Salle, the first premier hotel management school in the Philippines, reopened this week and is set...
View ArticleLearning from ‘Yolanda’
EUDEN VALDEZ Romualdez couple begins to build Tacloban’s ‘ resilient city’ Despite the efforts of the local and national governments to prepare for Super Typhoon Yolanda in November 2013, Tacloban City...
View ArticleSmall Chances
J Likha Yatco“Leave the big things to those who believe they have control and take the small chances at happiness every day.” —Gemma Manuel Wesolowski he does this all the time, my jack does paint...
View ArticleMy story of happiness
APRIL MAE M. BERZAMy happiness is busy making others happy. — Charles Simic Happiness, you are a traitor, our forbidden love you ignore and our childhood picture you torn down into pieces after you...
View Article2014 NAMCYA semi-finalists annouced
NATIONAL Music Competitions for Young Artists Foundation (NAMCYA) Secretary-General Renato Lucas, in partnership with the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), the Cultural Center of the...
View ArticleKnow Sawikaan’s Word of the Year
THE Filipinas Institute of Translation Inc. (FIT), in collaboration with the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF), the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), and the University of the...
View ArticleSubmission of Venice Biennale curatorial proposals extended
THE deadline for the submission of curatorial proposals for the Philippine participation at the 56th Venice Biennale is extended to September 3 at 12 midnight. After 50 years since its last official...
View ArticleRICARDO PENSON and his fight for the great Filipino dream
SHEILA MAÑALACLong-time philanthropist and anti-corruption advocate Ricardo Lagdameo Penson believes that every Filipino should possess and pursue “a shared will to greatness.” Despite living a...
View ArticleA return to love
Carla Bianca V. RavanesCarla Bianca V. Ravanes “Our capacity for brilliance is equal to our capacity to forget the past. The only meaning of anything in the past is that it got us here, and should be...
View ArticlePSC adopts 10 day care centers in Antipolo
COMMUNITY volunteerism was alive and well when company officials and employees of Philippine Seven Corp. (PSC) united to help address the need for quality early learning in Antipolo City via its...
View ArticleAisec and ADB join hands to empower the youth
Akbayan National Chairman Risa Hontiveros talked about what it takes to be a 21st Century leader THE Asian Development Bank hosted the International Youth Day Summit 2014 this August, marking its very...
View ArticleCall for papers on identity of Asian culture, history and religion
THE Philippine Association for the Study of Culture, History, and Religion (PASCHR Inc.), which was established in the Philippines under the umbrella of the regional organization named South and...
View Article2nd Sine Panitik scriptwriting contest opened
THE National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) is inviting writers to the Second Sine Panitik Scriptwriting Contest. The Sine Panitik project aims to adapt Philippine literary classics being...
View ArticleVirtuoso Chino Gutierrez returns to the concert stage
The 24-year-old violin genius Chino Gutierrez Munich-trained classical violinist Joaquin Maria “Chino” Gutierrez returns to the concert stage on September 13 at 7:30 p.m. with a repertoire With noted...
View ArticleTunying, Rossel – and their happy ever after
Euden Valdez Staff WriterWhen Anthony Taberna began to establish a name in radio and TV as a credible journalist more than a decade ago, he also did so with a happy-go-lucky reputation when it comes to...
View ArticleThe humble and hard-hitting news man
Lea Manto-Beltran Senior Staff Writer photos by melyn acostaAnthony Taberna Media personality Anthony Taberna makes many a Filipino’s day. From the crack of dawn, his bold but witty editorials perk up...
View ArticleCuratorial proposal to 56th Venice Biennale chosen
Sen. Loren Legarda is the principal advocate behind the Philippine participation at the Venice Biennale 2015 THE National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the Department of Foreign...
View ArticleGearing up for indigenous gatherings
B’laan children from Datal Tampal in Malungon, Saranggani province THE National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), the prime government agency for arts and culture headed by its chairman...
View ArticleHypocrites and/or paragons
FRANCIS C. MACANSANTOS A review of ‘The Boys in the Boarding House’ by Geraldine Maayo SEASONED short story writer Geradine Maayo’s gallery of portraits, old and new, most recently collected in The...
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