by Alfredo ‘Ding’ Roces

The images of MetroManila that linger in my mind are the helter-skelter jumble of colors and shapes that somehow compose themselves within a fantastic artist’s canvas. Suddenly you encounter visual order in chaos. Poetry in poverty and decay. You somehow…

By Greg B. Macabenta

I swear this story is true. A film director I knew was so incensed at someone who had offended him, he seduced the fellow’s wife then phoned the man and gloated: “You know what I’m doing right…

On the day the Estrada verdict was announced, a retired man who sought my help to obtain his social security benefits in the Philippines professed sympathy for the former president, expressing his hope that Estrada would be shown mercy because…