WHEN Muhammad Ali knocked the gum shield out of Joe Frazier’s mouth in the middle of “Thrilla in Manila”, I...
Read moreA TALE of two Presidents. One in barong tagalog, the other in T-shirt, checks or plaids. One in Malacañang, the...
Read moreWATCHING Rodrigo Duterte preside over a midnight press conference in Davao City, I didn’t expect I could stay awake and...
Read moreENJOY the “moderate-to-heavy” traffic while you may. It’s only a matter of days before school opens – welcome to Apocarlypse!
Read moreDID the five persons who collapsed during a 12-hour outdoor concert last week die “by misadventure”? It was not likely...
Read moreWHEN Cecile Licad lets down her hair – when she’s wearing jeans, a loose Indian shirt and sandals, for example,...
Read moreBELIEVE it or not, the Korean telenovela has been with us for 11 years. ABS-CBN started the fad in 2005...
Read moreMEDIA’s invention of “presumptive president” as applied to you-know-who – no wonder he insists on being addressed as Mayor –...
Read moreWHILE the eyes and ears of media are focused on the next President’s ability to quickly fill up some 18,000...
Read moreHERE comes Sen. Koko Pimentel, who’s only the head of incoming President Duterte’s political party, threatening to “put behind bars”...
Read more"SHE walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies”... And, “Whenas in silks my goes/ Then,...
Read moreWHO’D have thought that the way to soften the image of Davao City’s “punisher” was to turn him into the...
Read more‘Tis the morning after. Let’s all take our pills, downers or uppers, let go of anger, frustration, gloating triumphs, and...
Read moreTAKE it from Senator Cynthia Villar, who helped her husband Manny run a presidential campaign in 2010 that many voters...
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