Rizal's "Kiss"
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So, who really wrote this satire on the difficulty of kissing a Filipino woman – Rizal or Antonio Luna?
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Street of Faded Glory
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The Escolta was Manila’s gem of a shopping street, until neglect and idiotic city officials made it go to seed.
Read MoreCircumcision: Writhe of Passage
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A rite of passage that generations of Filipino men had to endure
Read MoreOpinion: What "Cesar Chavez" Leaves Out
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FANHS argues that the film misses an opportunity to offer a nuanced and accurate history of the farmworkers movement that was born of the Filipinos’ 1965 Grape Strike.
Read MoreOh, My! Snakes, Wild Beasts and Virile White Hunters
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How Western men in the 19th and 20th centuries used travel to the Philippines to depict themselves as brave adventurers.
Read MoreThe Bold Soprano
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The daring Filipina opera understudy who gave her breakout performance in “Madame Butterfly” in New York, 1938.
Read MoreA Playlist for Romance
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We asked our readers for the song that “shook their world”. Here are a select few that you can cozy up to and get you in the mood for loving.
Read MoreYesterdays in Ermita (Part 2)
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Things you didn’t know about this historic Manila neighborhood.
Read MoreBecoming Victoria
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An actress prepares to make a film on the life of Olympic diving gold medalist Victoria Manalo Draves.
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