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Shanghai in Cubao

by Doreen G. Yu - March 18, 2025 - 12:00am

I recently spent an afternoon in old Shanghai, the glamor and the squalor of that fabled Paris of the East captured in two landmark films – the 1932 Shanghai Express and the 2007 Lust, Caution.

Remembering People Power

by Doreen G. Yu - February 25, 2025 - 12:00am

Today marks the 39th anniversary of what has come to be known as the EDSA People Power Revolution, an uprising like the world had not seen before.

Art for artists

by Doreen G. Yu - February 18, 2025 - 12:00am

The ACC Philippines-Leon Gallery auction has become the gold standard for art auctions in the country, both for the quality of the art works on the block as well as the buyers who grab up the works, not to mention...

Pasinaya, a bountiful harvest

by Doreen G. Yu - February 11, 2025 - 12:00am

February, which is National Arts Month, started off on a high note with the 20th iteration of Pasinaya, the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ annual open house festival, on the month’s first weeke...

Embrace creativity, innovation in Year of Wood Snake

by Doreen Yu - January 28, 2025 - 12:00am

The Lunar New Year, which starts tomorrow, is the biggest and most important festival of the year for millions upon millions of Chinese – as well as other Asians, like the Vietnamese, who celebrate Tet –...

Embrace creativity, innovation in Year of Wood Snake

by Doreen G. Yu - January 28, 2025 - 12:00am

Magtanim hindi biro

by Doreen G. Yu - January 14, 2025 - 12:00am

Rice, to Filipinos, is as basic and essential as air and water. It is thus a high crime that we cannot feed our own people, and it is a national shame that we rely on farmers in Vietnam and Thailand and India to...

RAOKs and resolutions

by Doreen G. Yu - December 25, 2024 - 12:00am

Random acts of kindness. It’s become a worldwide movement (there’s actually a foundation – randomactsofkindness.org), and it works because of the participation of ordinary folks anywhere and everywhere....

Pagmamahal

by Doreen G. Yu - December 19, 2024 - 12:00am

Of course the food was good, as you’d expect from Milky Way, the iconic restaurant on Pasay Road in Makati, but this lunch the food was outdone by eight bright-eyed young performers, scholars of the Actors...

Bella storia

by Doreen G. Yu - December 7, 2024 - 12:00am

Life is a story, or rather, a series of stories, and often, it’s in the re-telling of these stories that they come alive, sometimes taking on a life unexpected. Memories are funny, they play tricks on us; what...

The world waits as a nation votes

by Doreen G. Yu - November 5, 2024 - 12:00am

Elections are held supposedly to let the voice of the people be heard – one person/one vote, as long as you meet the age (so you are supposedly mature enough to discern right from wrong, to choose what is good...

Pasko na! Kampanya na!

by Doreen G. Yu - October 30, 2024 - 12:00am

The first sign of Christmas in my apartment is a small white parol knitted by the mothers at Knitting Expedition in Uhaji, Ifugao.

What’s new, NAIA?

by Doreen G. Yu - October 22, 2024 - 12:00am

There was such an outcry when the new parking rates at the NAIA were announced ahead of its implementation last Oct. 1 – from P40 for the first two hours and P15 for every hour thereafter to P50/P25 and for...

No RFID? Pasensya na po!

by Doreen G. Yu - October 3, 2024 - 12:00am

I didn’t realize my tirades were that loud, but they got the desired results.

The Mid-Autumn Festival

by Doreen G. Yu - September 17, 2024 - 12:00am

Tonight the moon is at its fullest and brightest; hopefully Tropical Depression Gener which entered our area of responsibility yesterday won’t spoil our moon-gazing. It’s the harvest moon, which marks...

‘Peechure! Peechure!’

by Doreen G. Yu - August 28, 2024 - 12:00am

It is ridiculous for someone – especially a lawyer – to claim that a photo taken of Bongbong and Liza Marcos in a Chinese restaurant in Pasay City can – and will! daw – prove their connection...

The emperor’s ingredients

by Doreen G. Yu - August 25, 2024 - 12:00am

There was no emperor at the table, but rather a self-described “humble chef” in stylish dark blue chef’s garb with matching rubber clogs, a diamond in one ear and a spoon in his sleeve pocket.

Double-sided tape

by Doreen G. Yu - August 17, 2024 - 12:00am

Several controversial issues have cropped up over the Olympics, not just here in our part of the world but in other countries, too.

The boxer; Olympic watching

by Doreen G. Yu - August 4, 2024 - 12:00am

I have mixed feelings about boxing being one of the few Olympic sports that will get us on the medal tally board. Before Hidilyn Diaz, EJ Obiena and Caloy Yulo, our medal hopes were all pinned on our boxers.

Falling out of coconut trees

by Doreen G. Yu - July 30, 2024 - 12:00am

There is a resurgence in the US of a phenomenon called KHive, and suddenly, coconut trees are in vogue, from New York (where there are probably no such trees) to California and beyond.

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