Filipino-American trader and social worker Alma Quintans-Kern never thought that one day she would speak in the provincial capitol that her grandfather built almost a century ago.
The political landscape in Ilocos Norte is no stranger to wrangling between members of a political clan or to a circus of former allies becoming fierce enemies.
While many summer getaways are built on pristine settings, three friends worked the other way around. They first restored 8 hectares of denuded sections of Mt. Arayat in Pampanga to make an ecological park.
Sometime in the 1990s, Elsie Gawidan Maliones was peddling at her stall cassette tapes of originally recorded songs by Kankanaey and Ibaloy singers from Benguet.
With less than a month before the election campaign period for local candidates officially begins on March 29, the gubernatorial race in vote-rich Pangasinan has become the most anticipated event this summer.
A giant “balangay” (wooden boat) rides the sea of commerce on the final week of the 18th Baguio Flower Festival, the only piece of art looming over tents filled with food and products from various parts of the country at the street bazaar called “Session Road in Bloom.” The huge sunflower-bedecked boat, manned by [...]
While the 2012 saw widespread flooding hitting Central Luzon in August, destroying about P2 billion worth of crops, no major disaster struck northern Luzon for the rest of the year.
Where before, essay-writing contests were even held among the young to bring out their thoughts about Tarlac’s hero, today there isn’t much of the fervor, not even the yellow ribbons displayed in the province whenever Aug. 21 comes.
Twenty-two years after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake shook the coastal city of Dagupan in Pangasinan, Mayor Benjamin Lim still vividly remembers the ensuing panic and chaos that almost turned the place into a ghost town.
An old Hebrew proverb goes: “Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but live in thankfulness that he was.” Thus might be said of artist and professor Darnay Demetillo, whose quiet, unassuming presence and dedication to his art has truly enriched Baguio City’s arts scene. Demetillo succumbed to the effects of a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which resulted in a general systems failure on July 11. He was 66.
More Kapampangan can now write the way their ancestors did long before Spain colonized the Philippines in the 16th century.
When Maria Zita Adami, 42, puts on a “vakul,” the traditional headgear of the Ivatan women, and arranges the strap of the “yuvok” (native basket) over her forehead, her face seems to beam with pride.
Between malls and museums, chances are more Filipinos would choose to go shopping than scrutinizing a tattooed Benguet mummy or other artifacts showing how Igorot ancestors caught fish or panned gold along the Agno River.
