The Land of the Rising Sun is the world’s uncontested capital of cuteness.

THE POWER OF CUTENESS

What form or what content must films have particularly when we are in a flux where we trying to differentiate between high art from low art.

Movies and our happiness

THE skies are bluer. The forests are more verdant. The air seems rarified.

The Cinematic Mountain Of Romblon

I look at my wardrobe and I can whiff traces of mold and mildew.

Bespoke days

(Second of two parts) 

THE biggest publisher of manga in Japan is Kondansha, established in 1909, and still much around coming out with literary publications and even a dictionary.

Japanese Manga Versus Filipino Komiks 

Art in the Park, a happy annual art exhibit at the Salcedo Park in Makati, will again be held online this time, like last year, because of the pandemic.

Collecting, Costing, Laundering Of Paintings

BABAE is a photography book I launched exactly two years ago, during Women’s Month, at the new and handsome UP College of Fine Arts annex building.

The Book Babae And Nudity

(First of two parts)

BOTH the Japanese manga and the Filipino komiks were heavily shaped by American cultural influences like Disney animation and by comics such as Superman.

THE din for the coming elections is getting louder.  The candidates will come in all shapes, sizes and decibels.

MGA BALASUBAS

GOOD friend Zal, age 80, almost died of COVID-19 eight months ago and came out of the hospital almost a skeletal invalid - unable to walk.

THREE OLD MEN, WISDOM, AND SEX

The Third Zone column by OpinYon columnist, Boboy Yonzon.

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The Book Babae And Nudity

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