Beyond Words

By Nicolo Nasol | June 5, 2014 - 12:00am

Not quite. Writing creates another reality. It is a breeding ground of pain. It is a process wherein pieces of truth reveal themselves to the writer while doing his best not to look away.

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Write of passage

Write of passage

By RJ Ledesma | April 30, 2014 - 12:00am

There was a reason that fellow Philippine STAR columnist and the director of the workshop, Butch Dalisay, brought us to BenCab’s...

Nurturing our sense of nationhood

Nurturing our sense of nationhood

By Butch Dalisay | April 14, 2014 - 12:00am

At the University of the Philippines Institute of Creative Writing, we were happy to recently welcome into our ranks several...

Arts and Culture

SPECIAL FEATURE: Miracles of the Sto. Niño

By Niño Rene U. Borromeo | January 15, 2014 - 12:00am

Every third Sunday of January, thousands of people from different parts of the country and even from other nations, troop to Cebu City to celebrate the feast of the miraculous Señor Sto. Niño. ...

Idina Menzel is a diva in her own right

By Raymond de Asis Lo, L.A. Correspondent | December 1, 2013 - 12:00am

The Internet defines the word diva as a celebrated female singer, a woman of outstanding talent in the world of opera, and by extension in theater, cinema and popular music. Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross are two...

Julianne’s goodness of heart shines through

By Raymond de Asis Lo, L. A. Correspondent | October 16, 2013 - 12:00am

It was late in the afternoon last Sunday when this writer joined a dozen other journalists for a roundtable interview with Julianne Moore.

Ang Pinaka: Celebrity look-alikes

May 26, 2013 - 12:00am

Are they doppelgangers? Or twins separated at birth? These celebrities and famous personalities are actually not blood relatives but by some cosmic joke, they do share uncanny similar facial features.

Bagong serye ‘di pa nag-uumpisa may problema na, serye ng network nilalayasan ng writers!

By Nitz Miralles | April 16, 2013 - 12:00am

May problema ang network sa sisimulan pa lang nilang soap dahil balitang nag-resign ang mga writer nito. Unang nag-resign ang episode writer at sinundan ng isa pang episode writer.

At the literary table

By Butch Dalisay | February 11, 2013 - 12:00am

I’m here in Dumaguete City for Taboan, otherwise known as the Fifth Philippine Literary Festival, an annual gathering of writers from all over the archipelago, and even a few parts beyond. Dumaguete, of course,...

Arts and Culture

If books could kill

If books could kill

By Scott R. Garceau | November 4, 2012 - 12:00am

Author Salman Rushdie uses a striking image to open his memoir, oddly titled Joseph Anton (the alias he came up with during...

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