Still standing today, the Sheikh Karimul Makhdum Mosque in Tawi-Tawi is purported to be the oldest mosque in Southeast Asia.
The Philippines has a rich Muslim identity that predates Spanish colonialism and Western Christianity by roughly 200 years. In the six centuries between the introduction of Islam to the country and today, Islamic traditions persist. It could be argued that Islam, after ...
The Amil Brothers maintained their innocence, expressing that they had only been trying to rid their mother's body of bad spirits.
Cannibalism, unfortunately, has existed in the Philippines for centuries. Paul de La Gironière's best-selling mid-19th-century travelogue, which chronicled the French explorer's arrival in the country, yields insights into the gruesome practice. Here, the eye doctor detailed ...
Martin Scorsese's latest film focuses on the brutal murders of the Osage people in the 1920s.
When audiences travel to the theater to see Martin Scorsese's latest film, Killers of the Flowers Moon, they'll likely experience a brutal piece of American history for the first time. Though the Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro-starring film ...
The director's 2003 masterpiece marked the point when pared-back plotting turned into a protracted pastiche.
Not many filmmakers can claim to have their very own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary, but Tarantinoesque [adj] is in there for good reason. No director has seen their style aped and plagiarised the way Quentin Tarantino did after he burst ...
Just around the same time as Delos Santos' sixth death anniversary, we are mourning another 17-year-old's senseless death. Jerhode “Jemboy” Baltazar was laid to rest yesterday after he was mistakenly killed by Navotas cops.
Kian delos Santos was shot in a dark alley in Caloocan by police offers during an anti-drug operation back in 2017, causing a national uproar. It would soon become one of the most infamous cases of extrajudicial killings during the height ...
Nothing was ever the same for Baler after Apocalypse Now.
When Apocalypse Now premiered at the Cannes Film Festival back in May 1979, its director Francis Ford Coppola raised one too many eyebrows when he told reporters: "We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to ...
After nearly 24 years, the online forum is shutting down. It just never stood a chance in the social media age.
It's been a while since we checked on PinoyExchange.com. The PEx kids just grew out of it, I suppose. Many of us have migrated to the abundance of social media platforms available to us right now. The community has been ...
The President is set to attend former polo buddy King Charles III's coronation day on May 6.
The date for King Charles III's coronation at Westminster Abbey is set. World leaders, diplomats, businessmen, and bankers, among others, are all expected to attend the ceremony. We can also expect to see President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. join them, Ambassador ...
A byproduct of postwar Philippines, the Presidential Medal of Merit awardee's time with the College of Fine Arts would come to inform his artistic sensibilities.
Postwar Philippines pratically birthed modernism. The late 1940s to the early 1950s, in particular, saw the rise of the next set of great Filipino artists. And the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts (UPCFA) Padre Faura campus would become one ...
It had been featured in various maps from the 16th- to 18th-centuries before vanishing completely.
The story of the long lost island of San Juan is as big a mystery as most any other local legend. Our fascination with it is reminiscent of the world's curiosity with the city of Atlantis. The only difference is that ...
An icon of brutalist architecture in the Philippines.
Often cited as National Artist for Architecture Leandro V. Locsin's magnum opus, the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) in Pasay City is one of the most celebrated buildings of its time. Its bare concrete, distinctive design gestures, and structural balance have ...
His time with the High Court was a controversial one.
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. officially swore in former Supreme Court Chief Lucas P. Bersamin as his new Executive Secretary on Tuesday, September 27.Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles said that the President chose Bersamin on a "trust basis.""Sinasabi ng ating ...
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