After more than a decade, we’re back to writing a column. Now, this may all sound easy, this task of writing sensibly while making its message sing. But it isn’t, quite frankly, like riding a bike. Because it is a tough task, to write something that means. To give music and some measure of depth …
I started to love listening to live music when I was old enough to be allowed inside Le Fondue at the La Azotea building along Session Road. My generation was too young to experience Songs and would be content to listen to music at the post office park with friends carrying a bottle of gin, …
We extend our deepest sympathies to the family of Jerhode Jemboy Baltazar, a 17-year-old boy whose life was tragically taken in a police operation in Navotas City on August 2. Our hearts and prayers are with his family in this time of grief. Jemboy’s life abruptly ended when Navotas City police fired at him while …
Child Rights Network’s statement on the continued killings of children Read More »
Last week, we discussed the supply-side perspective of the economics of noontime shows. This time around, we take on the perspective of consumers or the viewers of these noontime shows. The basic premise of analyzing the demand side of the market is CHOICE. Rational choice theory in Economics seeks to explain human behavior by assuming …
Recently, our noontime viewing habit was shaken up. TVJ, et. al. left Eat Bulaga, the one that is produced by TAPE, Inc. and aired on GMA Channel 7. They eventually came back as E.A.T. now aired on TV5 and is now co-produced by TVJ and Mediaquest, the holding company that owns TV5, and replaced It’s …
Yes, you read that right. I am now one among the almost 2 million Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs); the once-upon-a-time considered “Bagong Bayani”. (Of course, because of the pandemic, the new “bagong bayani” are the health care workers.) I have been one for over a year now. Wow! That much happened from the last time …
Some parts of the world have declared the end of the pandemic, deeming it fit resume life as we knew before the plague of Covid hit. In Baguio City, at the side of Magsaysay to Bokawkan where it is tagged as the redlight district, a declaration ending the pandemic is not needed as life has …
A group of Baguio based journalists asked and offered this “oldie” newspaperman an opportunity to resuscitate his mind by re-directing, once again his nose for news and opinions on ranging issues. This opportunity will be published by the newly arranged website dubbed as the Northern Luzon Monitor, hence watch out for her inaugural publication early …
