Author: Honey Libertine Achanzar-Labor

UP Manila just had its first face-to-face Recognition Rites since the COVID pandemic last July 26, 2022, and to the delight of both students and members of the faculty, the venue was no less than the newly renovated Manila Metropolitan Theater. The Manila Metropolitan Theater is...

If God had not made brown honey, men would think figs much sweeter than they do. - Xenophanes I was back in Istanbul Airport waiting for my flight back to the Philippines, with some remaining Turkish liras in my bag. While contemplating what would be best...

Heinrich Heine’s famous “Lyrisches Intermezzo” contains sixty-six songs and a prologue where we meet a dreamy poet, the knight: Once upon a time, there was a melancholy knight, With haggard, snow-white cheeks; He staggered and stumbled, and lumbered around, Obsessed by gloomy visions. He was so wooden, so clumsy, so...

“I may not live to see our glory But I will gladly join the fight And when our children tell our story They’ll tell the story of tonight” ― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution When I first heard my teenage son sing songs from the musical Hamilton and made it...