HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz One of the most graphic and most gripping accounts of the first Christmas and Jesus’ early childhood comes from evangelist Matthew. And if I may add, most relevant especially now. The first part of Matthew’s chapter two is already quite familiar: the traditional “Belen”...
LANDSCAPE Just when I was beginning to feel like Scrooge of Charles Dicken’s “Christmas Carol,” a group of young people sent me an email asking if they could serenade me with the season’s well-loved songs. Humbug! Scrooge would have screamd. But I am not like him, I am always interested...
Minimalist, sophisticated, and genderless , Filipino fashion label Cruz delivers gender neutral pieces fit for every individual. Launched on September 2018, Cruz focused on men’s shirts and accessories before rebranding to be gender neutral. During this time, it dropped a collection featuring...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz The Philippine Bar Association this week said it is concerned that certain courts have become “warrant factories”. While the country’s largest voluntary lawyers’ group did not specify the particular courts, its statement indirectly referred to the mass arrest on Human...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Frankly, I am surprised that the institutions of the United States of America have remained immutable through the course of centuries. I thought their judiciary system was going to crumble in the face of the well-planned onslaught of outgoing president, Donald J. Trump....
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Mass vaccination against the coronavirus started this week in the United Kingdom, with a Filipino nurse administering the vaccine. Many Filipinos could only say: “Sana all.” Some time earlier, the Japanese Parliament passed a law ensuring that all residents of Japan, citizens...
LANDSCAPE The 75 th Postmaster General of the USA, Mr. Louis Dejoy, is M.I.A! In May, 2020, the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service appointed him to that strategic post, not exactly to everyone’s surprise. Although he was an outsider, Mr. Dejoy is a successful businessman who...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz I’m sorry to break it to you, but this seemingly difficult time is a great time to be a progressive. The avalanche of fake news about the nature and objectives of activism and all sorts of social engagement even by non-activists provide us an opportunity to explain and to...
LANDSCAPE I am writing about Jim Toolen to show you that this world is filled with people who are interconnected without their knowing it, who made lasting impressions on each other without suspecting it, who are unaware that their lives have mingled like sand and water. Meeting someone again after...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Ever wondered how and why TV, radio, online and print media, including this newspaper, get to decide what is news at any given time or day? What’s the criteria? What’s in an event or a person that they make it to “breaking news,” “nagbabagang balita,” or live...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta In my secret book, there are a select few who should have been and should be immortal; whom the Almighty should have frozen in time but in the pink of health and at the cusp of their creativity. These are (or were) the people who can live forever and should have lived...
By DEAN DECKER PARTY ICON Louie Cruz It won’t be easy to forget Louie Cruz . Last Friday was a sad day for the nightowls and party people of Manila when news spread that he had passed away. He was an icon for those of us who came of age at any point in the last three decades of the last century,...
