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...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Very few remember that he went rogue during People Power 1 – he disobeyed the orders of the Commander-in-Chief and found ways to divert the menacing army tanks from entering EDSA where thousands were already gathered to protest against the dictatorship. When he was...
JC DE VERA with Rikkah Cruz (Instagram) JC de Vera has decided to movie his wedding with fiancee Rikkah Cruz to another date due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. JC and Rikkah were supposed to marry on Oct. 10. The new date has not been revealed as of press time. It was February when JC...
HOTSPOT Doctors have been repeatedly asked about and have also been repeatedly giving their opinion about the coronavirus pandemic since March. Unfortunately, our leaders have depended on an entirely different set of advisers. The result of indifference to health care workers has been, to say the...
LANDSCAPE Pandemics like COVID-19 are nothing new. Through the centuries, humankind had gone through a number of episodic plagues and virulent pestilences that only the fittest survived. European archeologists have found evidence that the first pandemic sprang...
Tell us—which Pinay heiress are you siding with? THE CLASH Doris Magsaysay Ho, photo from The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada; and Josie Cruz Natori, photo from natori.com Chalk this one up to one of the things many of us won’t need to bother our pretty little heads with—how to go head to...
The times have not kept them idle By Veronica V. Wuson PAINT ED Fidel Sarmiento teaches painting online to seniors Strangely enough, the global pandemic, which initially limelighted seniors as most vulnerable, has spawned a breed of Filipino seniors who buck the trend of dire global stats. In...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Last July 29, what could perhaps be best described as an odd group of 19 different people filed at the Supreme Court the 21st petition lodged thus far against the Anti-Terrorism Law. Lawyers and law students on Twitter were pleasantly surprised. Many said they look forward to...
Julia Barretto (Instagram) Julia Barretto will return to work in August. She said so in an interview on the online show "We Rise Together," adding the title of the project is "Cara Y Cruz." "Sana umere na po para mayroon kayong abangan sa ating Kapamilya Channel. So let's keep praying for good...
