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As The Notebook opens, cast talks about what love means

Celeste Legaspi shares memories of her father, National Artist Cesar Legaspi, courting her mother

Passions and Obsessions

The New Yorker on how Alex Eala 'became a symbol of the Philippines'

The esteemed magazine writes about the mania and the 21-year-old behind it

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I shouldn't have doubted Subversive Lives

Could the play capture a book based on a family's sweeping narrative? Delphine Buencamino does

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It felt so good to wake up to a Federer-Roddick exhibition match Tuesday in the US Open. It made my day, a big happening to kick off the 2026 US Open this week—a fun, overwhelming, celebrity spectacle notches higher than the other grand slams this year. (It also made my streaming site subscription so worth it.)  Barely out of bed, I was laughing, clapping, still so awe-stricken by those slice…
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Many classrooms in the earthquake areas collapsed from the tremors. IT WAS in 2011, while I was visiting the survivors of a busted dogfighting ring in…
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Now, I just had to put in my two cents’ worth about how racism is alive and well in 2026, but is being trounced by public response.  It has been…
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Seeing the “mountain” on the old sprawling campus of Jose Abad Santos Memorial School (JASMS, pronounced Ja-sams) as the car sped down Edsa South…

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My theater weekend: Three new Filipino plays of exhilarating artistry

Tagay para sa Ex, Mga Binago ng Araw, El Fuego del Alma—the triumph of writing, acting, and direction


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