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The truth about Dagohoy, tarsiers and Chocolate Hills
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
I spent my childhood thinking of Bohol as populated not by humans by monkeys so small you need a microscope to see them. To my lovely Boholano friends, I didn’t make this article up as I learned these things from my elementary education, which fed me with pictures of your beautiful island as nothing but mysterious hills and primates, and a little bit of Dagohoy in between.
Air Supply is safer
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
A NEWS item that came out in this paper last Sunday had me googling the words “videoke” and “killings.” Just when I thought videoke violence is nothing but media exaggeration caused by a dearth of newsworthy events on weekends, this story about a stabbing inside a videoke bar in my hometown of Pinamungajan convinced me the Aquino administration should now create a task force to investigate videoke killings in the country.
Category: Column, culture, funny, bizarre and outrageous, Music, take that! | 
Tags: bisaya, cebu, cebu music, cebuano, cebuano language, cebuano music, environment, missing filemon, music video, music video workshop, Philippines, pinamungajan, Tsinelas Clap clap!
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
ug sa dihang di na ganahan manguli ang mga participants. ing-ana kanindot ang music video workshop niadtong sabado ug dominggo.
Category: culture, Music, Tsinelas | Tags: movies, music video workshop, ruel antipuesto, Tsinelas, video, workshops Cebu’s art scene, a.k.a collaboration
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
CEBU’s art scene is probably one of the most alive in the country today, with local musicians, painters, filmmakers, photographers, poets, writers and other artists churning out works like their lives (not livelihood) depended on it.
They are not difficult to find. Check out places like Kukuk’s Nest, Turtle’s Nest, Handuraw, The Outpost and other similar holes and they are there, guzzling beer, discussing Kant, rehashing jokes, plotting revolutions, or simply staring at empty space.
They are many, if you consider how Cebu is just a small community. And their number is growing, with more and more artists from neighboring provinces in the Visayas coming here in search of soul mates and a place to call home.
They may not be a tight, first-name-basis community but they are a sharing group, with disciples of one form of art sharing tables with those of another form of art. They know their works complement each other, so they pass art around, like glass in a tagay session. They have a word for it: collaboration.
In many occasions, the sharing comes in the form of seminars and workshops: veterans guiding neophytes, or wannabes inspiring has-beens (it doesn’t matter) – both ensuring that the art scene lives at least a generation longer.
They may not know it, but the generosity local artists are showing to each other is what keeps Cebu’s art scene going. (By Jimi Stuart Salvador)
PHOTO BY ARCHIE UY, NU107 Cebu relaunching, july 2009
Chatting for MJ
Monday, June 29th, 2009(Aledel is Aledel Gonzales, music buff and former Sun.Star reporter)
July 29, Monday, 12:51 p.m.
Aledel: Insoy! Kumusta?
Me: Hi Del. Ok pa sa olrayt! 80s kaayo nga expression no? Hehehe.
Aledel: No problemo. I deal with 80s stuff on a daily basis. Remember, I’m married to an 80s guy, hahaha!
Me: Mao gyud. I was with your 80s guy yesterday. Hitch ko niya from Aznar Coliseum to office. Michael Jackson kaayo ang sounds sa volks.
Aledel: Yes, he told me. And you talked about MJ the entire ride. I’m still playing MJ songs. Taught my daughter the zombie dance in “Thriller,” haha!
Me: Cool. How is she faring?
Aledel: Give her a couple of months and she’d be giving those CPDRC guys a run for their money, hahaha!
Rock Your Pride!
Friday, June 5th, 2009
Category: culture, Music, Tsinelas | Tags: bisaya, cebu, cebu music, cebuano, cebuano music, islands souvenirs, Tsinelas Ludabi ta ninyo!
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
WHY I’M WITH LUDABI
When national televisions air prime-time shows that use mixed-up languages and vernacular, some raise a concern.
No, they are not as exacting as stern conservatives are. They too agree that language must journey with the times, albeit cautiously and consciously. They just want their language, which their forefathers used to tell their tales, to be free from whimsical bastardization.
I’ll wear my pride!
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
FREE SHIRTS!!! FREE SHIRTS FOR ME!!!
Dear Mr. Lorenzo Niñal,
Greetings from Islands Souvenirs!
At Islands, it is part of our corporate message to advocate civic engagement and responsibility. Thus in line with our core strengths we are launching a new line of apparel called Philippine islands, or Pi for short. By featuring trendy, patriotic designs on our apparel, we hope to inspire a love for country and nationalistic pride in young Filipinos today. We hope to awaken people from apathy through the messages on our shirts, and help them realize their identities as Filipinos.
We would thus like to invite you…
Respectfully yours,
Ms _____________
Marketing Officer
Islands Souvenirs
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