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Kris Aquino and 30 years of EDSA

by Erwin T. Romulo - February 27, 2016 - 9:00am

That’s all I want to say at its core and at its simplest — you want your voice to be heard. You want to be heard and respected. And that’s what EDSA gave to the Filipinos.

Straight outta everywhere

by Erwin T. Romulo - August 27, 2015 - 10:00am

With the recent success of ‘Straight Outta Compton’ at the US box office, we head back to the album that started it all and learn why we should and shouldn’t sing its praise.

Curb your enthusiasm

by Erwin T. Romulo - February 21, 2014 - 12:00am

You would be right to be excited about going to the Art Fair this year. After all, who wouldn’t be? If last year’s was any indication, there is nowhere else you can go where you get to see the best of...

A Christmas jukebox

by Erwin T. Romulo - December 6, 2013 - 12:00am

After all the tragedy of the past few months, the Christmas spirit seems more elusive than ever to summon up in our broken isles.

The truth behind ‘On the Job’

by Erwin T. Romulo - September 6, 2013 - 12:00am

Frequently asked questions, notes, and assorted trivia about On The Job’s score

Home is where hell is

by Erwin T. Romulo - August 2, 2013 - 12:00am

It’s been called a masterpiece by no less than American director Martin Scorsese, and consistently named as the greatest Filipino film ever made by both foreign and local critics, but the truth is that many...

A history of bad men

by Erwin T. Romulo - February 10, 2013 - 12:00am

The term “panapathanogenic” refers to something so inherently evil or nasty that it’s only been used to describe subjects as universally reviled as the Nazis, or their counterparts in the far right...

Things to be grateful for

by Erwin T. Romulo - December 21, 2012 - 12:00am

Idon’t mind the end-times.

Back to the future: Up Dharma Down’s ‘Capacities’

by Erwin T. Romulo - November 30, 2012 - 12:00am

Third albums are notoriously hard to make.” So said Billy Bragg in a recent interview on the BBC about his LP, “Talking with the Taxman about Poetry,” which — after all — bears on its...

Black celebration

by Erwin T. Romulo - October 26, 2012 - 12:00am

True horror stays with you. Over the past several years in this space, I’ve made it a tradition to make lists of films for suggested viewing during Halloween.

26 men at their best

by Erwin T. Romulo - July 29, 2012 - 12:00am

To do a list of this kind is always tricky. The choices can seem to be purely born out of whim, held back by bias, and — worst of all — utterly boring, if not pointless. Unfortunately, the first two cannot...

Morrissey: An appreciation

by Erwin T. Romulo - May 11, 2012 - 12:00am

The artist known as Morrissey is performing for the first and perhaps last time in the country this Sunday.

When we began

by Erwin T. Romulo - April 13, 2012 - 12:00am

It now really feels like it was a century ago.

A homebody's literary guide to Manila

by Erwin T. Romulo - March 23, 2012 - 12:00am

Istay home on weekends.

A man for all seasons

by Erwin T. Romulo - March 2, 2012 - 12:00am

It’s time that men reclaim music, particularly rock ‘n’ roll.

Older men do it better

by Erwin T. Romulo - February 24, 2012 - 12:00am

No, I haven’t seen The Artist nor a lot of the other films nominated for this year’s Oscars.

Read loud

by Erwin T. Romulo - December 30, 2011 - 12:00am

How to spend New Year’s? Firecrackers? (No.) Go out.

In the ring

by Erwin T. Romulo - November 11, 2011 - 12:00am

On the eve of another epic fight, Manny Pacquiao’s most distinguished biographer weighs in.

A giant among men

by Erwin T. Romulo - October 28, 2011 - 12:00am

I don’t play squash.

Like father, like star-son

by Erwin T. Romulo - October 14, 2011 - 12:00am

It’s the same as having a doctor or a lawyer as a father,” smiles Jako de Leon, producer and writer of Hecklines, a new comedy show on GMA News TV, when asked what it’s like to have the great Joey...

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