Love Baskets for Betty

Love Baskets for Betty

The Jose Formoso Reyes story, or why the Philippine Commonwealth's loss was Nantucket's gain. 

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The Beatles in the Philippines

The Beatles in the Philippines

It was 48 years ago today, when the Fab Four came to Manila to play.

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Rizal's "Kiss"

Rizal's "Kiss"

So, who really wrote this satire on the difficulty of kissing a Filipino woman – Rizal or Antonio Luna?

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Untold Lessons from My Father

Untold Lessons from My Father

His father knew best but never told him.

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Street of Faded Glory

Street of Faded Glory

The Escolta was Manila’s gem of a shopping street, until neglect and idiotic city officials made it go to seed.

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Circumcision: Writhe of Passage

Circumcision: Writhe of Passage

A rite of passage that generations of Filipino men had to endure

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Opinion: What "Cesar Chavez" Leaves Out

Opinion: What "Cesar Chavez" Leaves Out

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.

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Oh, My! Snakes, Wild Beasts and Virile White Hunters

Oh, My! Snakes, Wild Beasts and Virile White Hunters

How Western men in the 19th and 20th centuries used travel to the Philippines to depict themselves as brave adventurers.

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The Bold Soprano

The Bold Soprano

The daring Filipina opera understudy who gave her breakout performance in “Madame Butterfly” in New York, 1938.

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A Playlist for Romance

A Playlist for Romance

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.

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