Lifestyle

by Goy Candelario World-class talent and spectacular creations! These will be your experience in Butuan’s fashion scene comes May. After the success of last year’s The Resty Lagare C...

By Drexler P. Vallejo I came in contact with the old wooden bench while making myself comfortable. I glanced around me, delighted at the sight of people’s smiling, and familiar faces. ...

By Joshua Kim Barreda If I were a garlic, I’d bury myself deep into this hole. I would not mince my words just to compliment anyone. Neither would I ask for a sun-kissed glow. I wo...

By Saberra Cruz I could not help myself getting a bit emotional as I read the news on the massive forest fire in Victoria, Australia last week. I lived there the past couple of years an...

By Bryan Edulzura and Bernie Campos Yes, homegrown and Butuan-based artists and cultural workers made a difference, not only for themselves and their dreams but for the community, their wor...

By Erica Florentino I woke up with the sun flooding through my window, and the sound of the alarm beside my table. I stretched on my bed thinking for the day’s event, then I whispered a...

By Rod Madawat When I entered elementary in 1970s my parents enrolled me in a private school concerned only in mastering its pupils to speak English and think like an American. I grew up...

By Saberra Cruz Outside the movie house showing Angelina Jolie's “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil," I overheard an awesome conversation between a mother and teenage daughter. Daughter: I wo...

By Eugene Perez and Maita Ybanez Remember the Swedish schoolgirl who scolded world leaders at the United Nations climate action summit on their wanting and arrogant reception and inaction ...

By R Juan de Abril I flew to Manila recently to watch the musical play “Mabining Mandirigma” at the Cultural Center of the Philippines thinking it could be the theater event of the year. I ...