Joel Cruz recounts how this homemade Pinoy side dish by his mom started Like any proud son, “Lord of the Scents” Joel Cruz shares with Manila Bulletin Lifestyle how his mom Milagros “Milagring” Santos-Cruz has been busy with this lockdown. Fondly called Nanay by her children, this...
Gemma Cruz Araneta LANDSCAPE At low tide, a sliver of white sand appears where Manila Bay meets the American embassy. In a wink, it is filled with naked street children and their scantily clad elders — dwellers of parks and sidewalks who want to escape the heat. They have probably heard of...
Sunshine Cruz was quick to denounce news she has died. Sunshine Cruz (Instagram / MANILA BULLETIN) She posted on Facebook, “Hindi po ito totoo! Buhay na buhay po ako.” The actress also urged followers to report the account of those responsible for the faux news, Rbb Savage, which identified...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz The pandemic and national public health emergency provide us an opportunity to make education relevant in solving our main problem today. But instead the government seems intent on giving more problems for students, teachers, and parents. There’s no debate that...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta While we were talking about unscrupulous people who steal ideas with impunity, I asked Atty. Daniel Hofileña, expert in the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines, about the fate of the HOCUS paintings. None of these are for sale and the next best thing to...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz It has been months since the administration declared a “national public health emergency,” but what has defined its response is not any impressive or effective national public health response. Instead, the public has been regimented into believing the pandemic’s spread...
Thirdy Ravena mourns the loss of Ateneo Blue Eagles fan and good friend Andie Cruz who was only 23 years old. (Photo from Thirdy Ravena's Instagram account @3rd_e) Thirdy Ravena on Wednesday mourned the loss of Ateneo Blue Eagles fan and good friend Andie Cruz who was only 23 years old. Ravena took...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta During a weekly zoom session with former classmates, one of them complained that she saw an almost exact copy of a Manansala she had inherited, in an on-line catalogue of an auction house. Another one detected a perfume of fraud when a copy of her own painting was for...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz It is now a familiar sight in many streets in Metro Manila: Jeepney drivers flagging down private car owners and begging for alms. It is a sight we never expected to see in our lifetime, although we’ve had an inkling that it could happen, especially considering the previous and...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta At this writing, the venerable Senate of the Philippines and the House of Representatives are about to have a bicameral meeting about what to do with the P162-billion pandemic fund provided by the Bayanihan 2 bill. I was informed that P10 billion has been earmarked...
This work-from-home arrangement, popularized with three initials as WFH, is now the norm, rather than the “exception“ it was just a year ago. When Manila Bulletin Lifestyle approached architects, interior designers, and furniture makers to reveal their WFH spaces, we got an overwhelming...
HOTSPOT Come 2022, I look forward to a groundswell of support and perhaps even an emphatic victory for Anakpawis if it runs again for partylist representation in Congress. And we have to thank Randall Echanis for it. Today, the memory and record of Echanis towers over traditional political beasts...
