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As Filipino fans keep an eye out for the American comedian and TV host while he’s here in the Philippines, our editor-in-chief attempts to explain the simultaneously universal and very specific appeal of Conan O’Brien.
It was thanks to cable and local UHF channels, which carried his old Late Night show, that I got introduced to Conan O'Brien. In the days before YouTube and streaming, I'd stay up to watch David Letterman first and then ...
The piece that went viral was first published in Esquire Philippines in 2017.
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Then he made an extraordinary request of me.
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Ninoy Aquino’s grandson, Kiko Aquino Dee, shares a personal portrait of his Lolo Ninoy’s love and sacrifice.
My Tito Dan Lichauco, Principal Architect of Archion Architects and son of Ninoy's older sister Maur Lichauco, came up with the idea of centering the new exhibit of the renovated Aquino Museum around the theme of choice. Each section of the ...
Just in time for Pride month, a Manila court has found Pura Luka Vega not guilty of some of the charges filed against him. Here, the controversial drag performer pens a thoughtful essay about the whole experience, and explains how it’s okay that his version of Jesus might differ from yours.
Amadeus: For the Love of God**Amadeus is my real name which coincidentally means "Loved by God." Ang funny noh?Seventeen declarations of persona non grata. Eleven court cases. Three arrest warrants. Two imprisonments. All because of a five-minute performance. The ...
“Being a venture capitalist is how I earn a living,” writes Paulo Campos. “Being a father is how I make a life.”
By Paulo Campos IIII've had the immense privilege of becoming a father in three wildly different ways: through the chosen love of my 24-year-old stepdaughter Gabby, the joyful love of my 3.5-year-old son Quin, and the ...
Quark Henares gives a glimpse into his life with Vicki Belo, the woman behind the icon.
People ask me all the time, "what was it like growing up as the son of THE Vicki Belo?" My answer is, "I thankfully didn't." My mom only became even remotely close to a household name when I was finishing college. ...
This year, the only thing I’m changing is how I see myself.
It started as an annual assignment in grade school, when I was around five or six years old. We had to write a New Year's resolution. Every year, we turned in a reflection paper about how we wanted to start our ...
So physically removed from the pains and troubles of the Filipino people is the site the Senate chose for its new building in Bonifacio Global City, that one wonders what it might do to the soul of the institution.
In one of his letters, the English poet John Keats asked, "Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"So physically removed from the pains and troubles of ...
Liberal democrats end up defending the system from the premise of continuity (an implicit admission that there is no alternative).
While champions of democracy continue to tout its virtues as the bedrock of individual rights, even they can admit that the rule of law and accountability-and to a larger extent, contemporary democracy-are already far from their salad days.Contemporary democracy ...
All this outrage against such a harmless tableau reeks of such annoying intellectual laziness.
It's gotten a little too predictable, it seems. Watching this so-called "blasphemous" tableau at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, I can already sense the misplaced outrage that was about to come. Of course, they were going to think about Leonardo ...
This is a sanctuary for "spiritual purification," I've been told. And for a man who may be as spiritually bankrupt as I am, I thought it would be a good exercise to participate in this reckoning.
My first encounter with Buddhism, for better or for worse, was through my favorite spiritual entertainer, the great Allan Watts. While he isn't exactly the greatest representation of Buddhist scholarship (he got a lot of things wrong, especially about zen and ...
You never really know someone until you see them at their angriest, most vulnerable, or even most cash-strapped. Travel offers you a good glimpse of that.
A common word of advice from the wise is that we never really know someone until we see them at their angriest, most vulnerable, or even most cash-strapped. Vacations provide us with a glimpse into all three conditions. Since these getaways ...
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