At 45, we tend to liken ourselves to that pistol with a hammer that allows us to always move forward.

Ask among Filipino parents back in the day if their kids could be artists and they’d immediately give you a resonant and firm no.

It has been almost a century since the brutal execution of the Romanov family, and yet their deaths and last days at the Ipatiev House still remain a mystery.

The recently concluded international conference on the “Galleon and the Making of the Pacific” organized by the Intramuros Administration reminds us of when Manila was a major center of world trade.

If there be a dominion of archangels, then the Swiss German painter Paul Klee is an archangel-artist.

"It’s like the story of Up Close and Personal, except for the part where the guy dies.”

Following the huge success of the Metrowear fashion show held last week, Lulu Tan Gan must be walking on air.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came for a 24-hour visit and showed us how she handles awesome power as the symbol of her country’s foreign policy.

A slew of news exploded one after the other the previous week.

Doing business in this diverse world is not as easy as A-B-C, especially if one is contending in the international retail arena.

"Just flowers?” asks an uninitiated viewer, while passing by the master painter’s flora and fauna exhibit in an art gallery. “Well, he’s not that good of a painter then, eh?” says another one in a smart-aleck manner, appearing sort of chagrined by what he had just seen.

Of late, we have all witnessed nature’s onslaught. It is Mother Earth’s response to the abuses we have made.

It was the Beatles that did it. The impact of the quartet’s avant-garde music at that time was too palpable for anyone not to notice; the world has never seen anything like it.

It’s no joke to be an artist: you carry worlds-within-worlds on your shoulders.

You have exactly a week to catch one of the most successful National Commission for Culture and the Arts projects, in terms of “impact or effect on the community and the number of people who will benefit from it.”

There’s a fine line separating hero and martyr.  From a macro view, overseas Filipino workers are indeed “unsung heroes” but look micro, at individuals, and you find silent martyrs.

Now that the Arroyo administration has threatened to put up a monument for the late President Cory, first things first must be the rule of thumb, otherwise the monument will be anything but.

Francisco "Isko" Moreno Domagoso rose from the slums to become Manila's vice mayor. His pillar of strength is his wife Dynee.

The million dollar pledge by power progeny Zhang Chang Guo from China climaxed the “Only Love Remains” three-night concert held at The Peninsula Manila.

An enigma. A Cheshire Cat in Wonderland.