Here are more details about the song according to the Eraserheads’ former manager Karin Araneta There‘s no doubt that Original Pinoy Music (OPM) icon Ely Buendia is a brilliant composer who makes songs to tell interesting stories that people can relate to. In the list are “ Toyang ,” “...
LANDSCAPE (Part II) How many people read Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere when it was hot off the press? Two thousand copies were printed, a number must have been sold among the Filipino expats and Spanish liberals sympathetic to the cause of indio Filipinos. Rizal sent a copy to Prof. F. Blumentritt whom...
LANDSCAPE (Part I) My younger relatives, sturdy branches of the Rizal genealogical tree, have often asked during family reunions – why Rizal? Why was he singled out? Why was he the only one executed under such dramatic circumstances? He was banished to rot in Dapitan, imprisoned in Montjuich and...
LANDSCAPE The first Holy Mass was celebrated not in the Visayas but in Mindanao because that historical event, that first step to staking territory in the name of God and King, occurred not in Limasawa which is part of the Visayas, but in Butuan (Mazaua) situated in northern Mindanao. Please do not...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Like it or not, believe it or not, Cuba and Venezuela are forging ahead of us in this battle against COVID-19 and its deadlier mutations. At this writing, a first case of the dreaded UK variant was reported in Pasay City, which makes one wonder if there are many more...
In this file photo, A man walks along a corridor past an official Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics advertisement board in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo. (AFP) The organizing committee of the Tokyo Olympics has come up with a "playbook" that will serve as a guideline for athletes, coaches, and officials...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Historically speaking, Cuba is our sister republic. Both of us were colonies of Spain and launched our anti-colonial movements at the same time. In fact, Jose Rizal and Antonio Luna wrote to each other about the Cuban revolution; Rizal observed that the Cayo Hueso (Key...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta When the presidential elections in the USA were over, I felt it was time to unglue myself from You Tube and go back to listening to local news on AM radio. But when Capitol Hill was attacked on 6 January, breached and occupied by what looked like a...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta “Maybe, I will have to leave the country,” former US President Donald Trump said, jokingly, in one of his super-spreader rallies. He firmly believed that there was only a one in a quadrillion possibility that he could lose the 3 November elections. Well, he did...
LANDSCAPE The United States of America is no longer a ship at full sail, it seems. Although I am not a US citizen, I am afraid for President Joseph Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris as their lives are and will always be in constant danger. They are the moving targets of...
After months of quarantine lockdown, the Big Dome comes alive this year with an OPM celebration brought by the much-anticipated Wish 107.5 Music Awards. The 6th annual Wish Music Awards will be broadcasted live from the Smart Araneta Coliseum on Sunday, January 17, with Gretchen Ho and Christian...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Yes, that’s us, the Republic of the Philippines, the “showcase of democracy.” It used to be the United States of America that was the light on the hill, the beacon of democracy. But, after that shockingly violent epiphany at their Capitol Hill, I dare say the...
