FYI, We Just Won a War in the Philippines

Did you know the U.S. was at war in the Philippines?

A Daughter Remembers Amorsolo

I interview the daughter of the most influential painter of 20th century…

Batangas City

(the past, the present and the future)

Dirty Kitchens

What it’s like to eat in the Philippines

Street Parliament

In my country in the Philippines street parliament is a common sightseeing. Different progressive movements march down the…

Why should you make the effort to watch Batch ’81:

Batch ’81 should be one of the most important films in the history of Philippine Cinema. I tell you this not from the auteur that is the jade ring of my Film Theories professor, but from thought process of a torrent peer. Batch ’81 might just…

What is wrong with Philippine history?

Troubleshooting from an unlikely source, the Lumads of Mindanao

“Undras”

(keeping the Filipino way of remembering the dead)

Is That an “O” or an “A?” A facepalm moment in Filipino Translation

August is National Language Month in the Philippines. That’s right, not day, not week, but month — which means that the need to highlight the use of the language runs high. “Why” is a topic of another discussion…

The Christian Conversion Puzzle

Why were the early Filipinos so easily converted?