For the first time in the 18 years of the Doreen Gamboa Fernandez (DGF) Food Writing Award, two entries from the same person were given the top prizes for 2019. Subject of the entries was “fish.” ...

When I returned to the Philippines, I vowed to go to the beach at night. I imagined us there: me and my friends surrounding a bonfire with the melodies we’d play from the Filipino rock band Franco, ...

One very unique tradition that has become widespread overseas because of the Filipino diaspora is the Simbang Gabi. The official Christmas religious tradition begins with the nine-day dawn masses.

Are Jose Corazon de Jesus and Florentino Collantes turning in their graves? Is Alejandro Abadilla furious at the present state of Tagalog free verse? No doubt Rolando Tinio will rejoice at the ...