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Escapade in Bohol

By Butch Dalisay | December 27, 2015 - 9:00am

Years ago I made a promise to take my wife Beng to all the beautiful places in the world I’ve been, so we’ve been...

Arts and Culture

Pedestrian pleasures

By Butch Dalisay | December 20, 2015 - 9:00am

There’s nothing better we’d like to do on a weekend — unless we’re running off to some southern island...

Arts and Culture

The heart’s serenade

By Butch Dalisay | November 29, 2015 - 9:00am

I was down in Davao a couple of weekends ago to speak at the Philippine International Writers Festival organized by the National...

Arts and Culture

History made personal

By Butch Dalisay | October 11, 2015 - 10:00am

The recent upsurge of interest in our history occasioned by runaway success of the film Heneral Luna is certainly welcom...

Arts and Culture

The real value of remembering

By Butch Dalisay | September 20, 2015 - 10:00am

Today marks the 43rd anniversary of martial law, a time many Filipinos have forgotten or would rather forget.

Arts and Culture

Border insecurity

By Butch Dalisay | July 26, 2015 - 10:00am

I’m not as big a TV fan as I used to be — I haven’t seen a single episode of Game of Thrones — but I can’t get enough of certain types of reality shows.

Arts and Culture

The other Filipino values

By Butch Dalisay | February 23, 2015 - 12:00am

During this most recent US visit, I had a chance to have a chat over a few beers with Ray Ricario, the older brother of our daughter Demi’s husband Jerry, and with some of Ray’s friends.

Arts and Culture

Return to Romblon

By Butch Dalisay | January 19, 2015 - 12:00am

Sometimes the best-laid plans are those you don’t lay out at all.

Arts and Culture

Autographs and memories

By Butch Dalisay | December 29, 2014 - 12:00am

This is, of course, a generation that writes messages, not letters; that tweets, not corresponds.

Arts and Culture

Some inflight education

By Butch Dalisay | December 15, 2014 - 12:00am

One of the things I like about flying is the onboard fun that I can look forward to —the movies and the music, to be...

Arts and Culture