OPM is alive and well in the time of Pandemic. That’s how it looks like as local music label Viva Records released a total of 30 new singles in the space of just three weeks -- 18 of them just last week! This means that despite the pandemic that’s been bugging everybody for a year now, local...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Domingo, my maternal grandfather who all of us his grandchildren didn’t get to meet because he died way ahead of seeing any of his children get married, fought as a guerrilla in World War II. Quite fortunately, he was listed in the roll of guerrillas of the US Armed Forces in...
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...
Sunshine Cruz and daughter Angelina Actress Sunshine Cruz took to Instagram on Feb. 15 to flex her daughter's latest achievement: becoming a Dean's Lister in her 1st year as a college student. Sunshine's full post: "Proud mom to Angelina! 1st year college (BS Marketing) and she is a Dean's...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz A banking industry report said that "as of September, 2020, the total operating income of universal and commercial banks in the Philippines amounted to approximately ₱601.7 billion. Operating income is the company's profit after deducting operating expenses in the country.”...
Because ‘women can choose and create their own destinies’ Motherhood is a lifetime journey that is full of surprises. And probably one of the most nerve-wracking parts of this journey is when our children start to create their own path and eventually fall in love. How does a single mother...
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...
Nico Elorde, Jervy Cruz and Paolo Taha are flanked by team manager Bonnie Tan and agent Danny Espiritu after being given contract extensions by NorthPort on Tuesday. (Photo from Danny Espiritu) NorthPort signed veteran forward Jervy Cruz and guards Nico Elorde and Paolo Taha to contract...
Geneva Cruz Fans of Sarah Geronimo are not happy that OPM artist Geneva Cruz is also being addressed as another pop royalty. Geronimo's fans believe that the title only belongs to her. But some netizens think that Geronimo's fans are over-reacting this way. On Twitter Feb. 6, a netizen...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz These times, one may think that the idea that “civilian authority is, at all times, supreme over the the military” is no longer relevant or fashionable, considering the growing role of retired and active generals in our national life. In this time of rampant red-tagging, some...
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...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Students don’t live in a vacuum, wherever they may be enrolled. They are citizens too. They witness or experience what other citizens witness and experience daily – inadequate mass transport, high prices of goods, official incompetence, and other outcomes of injustice,...
