Kuwento
Racism, memory and my Chinese lolo
By Benjamin Pimentel
This Father’s Day, I’m honoring my grandfather. I never met him. He died two years before I was born.
This Father’s Day, I’m honoring my grandfather. I never met him. He died two years before I was born.
In his wonderful essay collection, “Pinoy in America,’ Lorenzo Paran III pondered the typical dilemma of the expatriate Filipino.
Metro Manila Development Authority Chief Francis Tolentino is being ridiculed for writing a letter to Dan Brown, criticizing the bestselling author’s depiction of Manila in his novel, “Inferno,” as the “gates of hell.”
Perhaps the stupidest reaction to the last Philippine elections came from people who concluded that, based on the outcome, Filipinos are really stupid.
The importance of mothers in the world became clear to me one afternoon a few years ago when my son made a choice during a brief visit to the hospital. I expected he would pick me. Instead, he picked his mother. He just had a minor procedure and the doctor said the surgery [...]
Something Alex Padilla told me years ago makes it clear that he has the toughest job in government – but also the clearest sense of why that job is important. “Two related truths I believe in on this matter are these,” he told me in a January 2011 email after he was named head [...]
There’s a strong chance that lightning will strike in UP Diliman on Sunday. One hit UP Manila a week ago when students briefly held a protest during the commencement exercise.
Last August, Senator Teofisto TG Guingona III gave a powerful and impassioned speech praising heroes who fought against the Marcos tyranny, including two renowned figures of the underground left.
The voice on the phone was distressed. The caller, Tala Rahal, was sobbing and could barely speak as she tried to explain that her mother was in trouble. The girl was 10.
A San Francisco pay phone was a prominent part of the set in the 2008 Tanghalang Pilipino production of ‘Mga Gerilya sa Powell Street.’
News that a Jesuit, Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina, was chosen to be the next Pope quickly reminded me of another Jesuit and another Pope.
The 2013 election campaign will be remembered for one of the most amusing tit-for-tat exchanges in the history of Philippine politics. Team Patay vs. Team Tatay.
