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                    [Title] => The art of the title
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In my graduate writing workshop the other week, I received two essays from my students, one titled “Fasting and Abstinence” and the other “Portrait of a Matron.

[DatePublished] => 2014-02-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/4357/wcrd.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 901395 [Title] => Paul Morales and his Davao [Summary] =>

Paul Alexander Morales, artistic director of Ballet Philippines, dancer, choreographer, theater director and independent filmmaker, studied in London, worked with top European choreographers and received both national and international acclaim for his many talents.

[DatePublished] => 2013-01-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 309205 [Title] => Mothers Earth & literary tributes [Summary] => Everyone’s pitching in to help Narita Gonzalez, widow of the late great and beloved writer NVM Gonzalez, rebuild her family’s home at the UP Diliman campus. In the wake of that tragic fire 10 days ago that consumed NVM’s literary treasures and his family’s possessions, a flurry of e-mail and text messages has gone around, globally at that, to ensure that the spirit of the phoenix rises again through sheer strength of communal concern and camaraderie.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134575 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804845 [AuthorName] => Alfred A. Yuson [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 228475 [Title] => Focussed women [Summary] => A lingering indisposition has kept me from attending significant events despite the invitations that keep coming.

Tonight at six, Marge Enriquez’s invitation to Celebrating the Spirit beckons dance lovers to the Aliw Theater. Through persistence and determination, Marge has gained a reputation for her remarkable combination of dance and philosophy – or spirituality, if you will.

With Bart Guingona as director and Douglas Nierras as choreographer, Marge will interpret in dance their concept and design while delivering Dandi Janki’s gems of thought. [DatePublished] => 2003-11-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135822 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 227996 [Title] => On Villaruel [Summary] => People are still talking about the late former Air Transportation Office chief Panfilo Villaruel with some branding him a hero, and others, a man with a lost cause. Among the emails I received was this letter from a good friend from Los Angeles, California, Perry Casapao. I mentioned him in my column last Thursday, but an error in transmission led to the deletion of quotation marks from his statement, his statement appeared to be mine. Perry’s conviction was that Villaruel was killed unnecessarily; I hate to grab the credit for his ideas. [DatePublished] => 2003-11-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134209 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804859 [AuthorName] => Domini M. Torrevillas [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 182983 [Title] => PEN conference [Summary] => The conference of the Philippine Center of International P.E.N.... on "Literature, Peace, and Terrorism" will be held at the Garden Plaza Hotel in Paco Park, Manila (not in Los Baños as previously announced), on Nov. 30, Saturday, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Retired Supreme Court Justice Isagani A. Cruz will deliver this year’s Jose Rizal Lecture. Michael Mastura will give the keynote address.
[DatePublished] => 2002-11-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134791 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1525151 [AuthorName] => MINI CRITIQUE By Isagani Cruz [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 164972 [Title] => Campus writing, on and off, is alive and well [Summary] => Campus writing, both on and off it, is alive and well at the University of Sto. Tomas, whose Tomas, the literary journal published by the university’s Creative Writing Center, headed by poet and professor Ophelia Alcantara-Dimalanta, has released its fifth issue.

Aside from Tomas, there is the literary folio of mostly student writers, Montage, in which the so-called Kobe Bryant of Philippine literature, Angelo Suarez, cut his teeth.
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1431668 [AuthorName] => Juaniyo Arcellana [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 144751 [Title] => Writers’ affairs [Summary] => Okay, got your attention. But no, I’m not snitching on pen-pushers‚ liaisons, or the tricky matter of current squeezes vis-a-vis significant others.

Affairs of the heart these are too, what I’ll detail below. If only because they involve those who wear their hearts on their sleeves, by putting their efforts down on paper.

Again, literary namedrops are the order of the day. The following chronicle covers a hectic, sosyal calendar of events in the past weeks leading up to this hallowed eve.
[DatePublished] => 2001-12-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804845 [AuthorName] => Alfred A. Yuson [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 136009 [Title] => The poet as ‘Chancellor’ [Summary] => On an obvious roll has been my good old buddy Ricky.
[DatePublished] => 2001-10-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804845 [AuthorName] => Alfred A. Yuson [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) ) )
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