By JAMI LEDESMA DATE WITH AN ANGEL Louie in one of his wild antics on the party scene Louie Cruz died on a Friday. Ironic, especially for someone who, for much of his life, became extra vibrant at the start of a weekend. For somebody who was neither a parent nor a sibling to me, the influence he...
Many are downright excited about a report that Edgar Mortiz is currently engaged in talks with John Lloyd Cruz over his much-talked about TV comeback project. The actor has been scarce for some time, having decided to walk away from show business back in 2017. Though he has done a cameo in...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz The 2021 budget for President Duterte’s anti-communist task force, known as NTF-ECLAC, is P19 billion, which some say is only a tiny fraction of the P4.5-trillion total national budget for next year. Many would argue it is a total waste of taxpayer money and clearly a...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta For us Asians, the 19 th century was pivotal because total and absolute colonization was achieved by the European powers that invaded our region with superior fire power and technology. Our ancestors did not only lose ancestral lands and waterways; they were...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Having dozed off a bit earlier than usual on Wednesday night, I woke up at around 2 a.m. of Thursday to haunting sounds of typhoon Ulysses’ howling winds. Like many others, it was nearly impossible for me to go back to sleep. The next few hours, we watched friends on Facebook...
LANDSCAPE Honorable ladies and gentlemen, many of you do not know me because you were not yet in office when I was working for the late Mayor Alfredo S. Lim. If memory serves, some of you I already know like Councilors Josie Siscar, Lou Veloso, Roberto Asilo, Uno Lim, Joel Chua, DJ Bagatsing, Mon...
Paul Lee has averaged 25.3 points in Magnolia's five-game win streak inside the bubble. (PBA Images) SMART CLARK GIGA CITY--Instrumental in igniting Magnolia's hot streak in the PBA bubble, deadly scorer Paul Lee was chosen as the Cignal TV-PBA Press Corps Player of the Week award for the period of...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz As I write this, it is still uncertain who between Joe Biden or Donald Trump won the Nov. 3 elections. Their leads in the remaining battleground states are shrinking. Third World countries are known to give delayed election results, but not the United States of America. But here...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta It is cheaper to kill them in a plane crash, a private plane crash, he said, rather cavalierly with a half smirk. There is no evidence, no smoking gun because the plane crashes, that is your smoking gun. He is John Perkins, retired chief economic adviser, and his...
Northport's Robert Bolick drives past Columbian's CJ Perez during the PBA Commissioner's Cup at Smart Araneta Coliseum, July 3, 2019 (MB File Photo) NorthPort's Robert Bolick and Blackwater's Carl Bryan Cruz admitted feeling mixed emotions with their absence in the PBA bubble. Bolick (ACL) and Cruz...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Who wouldn’t sympathize with parents Francis and Relissa Lucena who went to the Supreme Court to beg that their daughter Alicia Jasper (AJ) Lucena, a full-time activist, be returned to them? As far as I know, this was the first such case that parents of an activist went to...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta From a distance, I am watching how you are restoring Manila’s historical contours, deftly melding the past with the present, to assure a brighter future for the city of our birth (we are both Manila-born). Behind the City Hall, the Bonifacio monument with the...
