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Reinventing Christmas in Dagupan
By Rex Catubig SOME 2,000 years ago, an unlikely untimely birth made the biblical headlines, and subsequently became the matrix of Christianity. We are familiar with the circumstances of Joseph and Mary’s trek to Bethlehem from their home in Nazareth to comply with an edict for villagers to return…
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The saga of SW LEE: (continued from last week)
A patriarch's dream, a grandson's mission By Rex Catubig IT’S symbolic that the remnant of the Oriental Hotel’s facade is now overgrown with weeds and shrubbery and boarded up with galvanized sheets. As if to hide from public scrutiny, the bygone life it harbors. What stories does it keep…
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The saga of SW Lee
By Rex Catubig IT has sat there for years: a box building or what remains of it—having rectangular portals with flat apex, the sides indented with draped corners. In earlier days, big backhoes and other heavy machinery stood on the side like sentinels watching over a mausoleum. Now, it…
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NEVER NOT, LOVE AGAIN, Pagdating ng Panahon
By Rex Catubig MY return to movie watching in the theater early this week, after a six-year hiatus, in part brought on by the Covid pandemic, was disenchanting. The movie that seduced me into going, Hello, Love, Again, is the much-ballyhooed sequel to an earlier smash hit and stars…
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The kindness of widows (2nd of two parts)
By Rex Catubig SHE was variously viewed as intimidating, domineering, haughty. But she was also a most kind, caring, and faithful friend who valued her late husband’s associates like they were her own. And the respectful regard extended to their family, the way she extended her hospitality to this…
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