HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Poet, artist and activist Ericson Acosta died on Bonifacio Day, Nov. 30, at around 2 a.m., in Kabankalan, Negros Occidental. He was 50. The tributes continue to pour in from contemporaries, fellow poets and artists, classmates and friends. According to the 62nd Infantry Battalion...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Up to now, there are those who believe that laziness is what’s behind the poverty and difficult life of many Filipinos. Jose Rizal already answered this charge in his time, but the fable still exists, infecting minds about the real reasons behind destitution. Enter the World...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Today, Nov. 19, is the 195th day since the May 9, 2022 elections. The victors have formed national and local administrations, organized the House and the Senate, and have long started to conduct the business of government in the executive, legislative and local offices. The...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Going to the public market or supermarket in the past few months and weeks is a sure way to have heartaches and headaches. Less people are using the big carts. We’re not really buying less stuff. We can no longer afford to buy more, even if we wanted to. Our money costs less...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz It is said that the family is the basic unity of society. Who would oppose that? No one. But there are a lot of backward ideas about it, and they are not helpful to families and it’s members. There are extended families, or those that include grandparents, titos, titas,...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz After my mother Liwayway Memije Cruz died, our dad and my siblings talked about what to do next and how to go about the wake. Our sister said Mama should have a wake where students and friends could visit and honor her. We could think of only one fitting place: the Polytechnic...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz While I guess many Manila Bulletin readers are more fortunate or more affluent, that doesn’t mean that they are immune or unbothered by rising inflation and escalating prices of basic goods. Everyone’s affected especially the upwardly-mobile yet peso-pinching middle class....
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Wow Presents Plus, Discovery+ and HBO Go have yet to release the final viewership numbers, but there’s no denying that Drag Race Philippines was a success as the show this week crowned Precious Paula Nicole as the winner of its first season. Yes, Precious Paula Nicole prevailed...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz I have been asked a couple of times at forums or on Twitter Spaces and Clubhouse, how we columnists come out with commentary on the issues. There are a lot of ways how we go about it, perhaps many times more than the number of columnists. Coming from my experience, I could say I...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Former foreign secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. missed the chance to be the last Philippine ambassador to the United Kingdom to present his credentials to Queen Elizabeth II. He would have to do it with the new monarch King Charles III. That ceremony would most likely be delayed...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Last weekend’s column about a certain director’s unwitting self-admission about the importance of facts and evidence went viral, with no small help from his arrogance, hubris and the apparent penchant for riding on the names of others. I’m not mentioning his name here, out...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz I leave it to critics, cineastes, artists and film lovers to give their knowledgeable reviews of the martial law period film “Katips.” It would also be only a matter of time for us to know how many trophies it would receive from other award-giving bodies, to add to its seven...
