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On this space today I must spiritedly promote the art of a couple of artist-friends with whom I go a long way back: John Altomonte and Jaime de Guzman.  


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Indecipherable peaks in Ciudad de Victoria

By Juaniyo Arcellana | December 14, 2019 - 12:00am

Lines snaked around the Philippine Arena Wednesday to watch one of the iconic rock bands for the generation that came of age...

Entertainment

Four novels

By Alfred A. Yuson | October 25, 2015 - 10:00am

Launched last Thursday at Conspiracy Bar & Garden Café on Visayas Avenue, Quezon City, were four novels recently...

Arts and Culture

My Favorite Line

July 26, 2009 - 12:00am

“It is easy to feel betrayed and even easier to upset the balance beyond repair.” From Banana Heart Summer by Merlinda Bobis sent by Val. M. Oliva.

Sunday Lifestyle

Stewards of the sacred

By Alfred A. Yuson | October 9, 2006 - 12:00am

With certain friends, one enjoys special relations not only owing to longevity, but also to some quaint commonality of awareness or interest. On this space today I must spiritedly promote the art of a couple of...

Arts and Culture

Heart of the matter

By Ophelia A. Dimalanta | December 5, 2005 - 12:00am

Banana Heart Summer, a recent novel by Merlinda Bobis, is a book one would love to fondle with sense/heart/mind all at once.

Arts and Culture

Our own voices

By Alfred A. Yuson | January 5, 2004 - 12:00am

(Second of 2 parts) Two other titles (besides Jessica Hagedorn’s Dream Jungle, reviewed here last week) for which our expatriate writers and editors have recently been responsible give us further reason to...

Arts and Culture

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