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Rio Alma conducts seminar, launches new book

June 15, 2009 - 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines - National Artist for Literature, Virgilio S. Almario (a.k.a. Rio Alma) will be holding a two-hour seminar titled “Mga Epiko at Katutubong Tula ng Filipinas” on June 19, 2 p.m. at...

Arts and Culture

A light that never goes out

By Juaniyo Arcellana | November 14, 2005 - 12:00am

No one writes book reviews anymore because critics are too busy watching cable TV or surfing the Internet; no one reads CD reviews anymore because people would rather hear the CD itself and pass judgment without...

Arts and Culture

Happy endings

By Butch Dalisay | July 15, 2002 - 12:00am

I didn’t mean to leave my graduate fiction class so glum and depressed on a rainy Friday night a couple of weeks ago, but I ended that meeting with what turned out to be the controversial proposition that most...

Arts and Culture

A death in the family

By Alfred A. Yuson | October 1, 2001 - 12:00am

We shall miss him. Many are the memories. Poet Michael L. Bigornia passed away last Monday, exactly a week ago. On the phone, through voice and text, we were all aghast to hear about it. He was only 51, the victim...

Arts and Culture