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                    [Title] => By George, what a festival!
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I just came back from the 5th George Town Literary Festival held in the historic city of Penang in Malaysia, and my mind is still reeling from the images.

[DatePublished] => 2015-12-04 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134677 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1248080 [AuthorName] => Danton Remoto [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1352166 [Title] => The giant leaps for mankind within the new millennium [Summary] =>

There is nothing as a strong imagination to inflame the child’s intelligence. One of the numerous Montessori lessons therefore that excites the child is the tall chart of the “Totem Pole of Civilizations.

[DatePublished] => 2014-07-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133347 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1659389 [AuthorName] => Preciosa S. Soliven [SectionName] => Education and Home [SectionUrl] => education-and-home [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1311878 [Title] => NBS recommends contemporary fantasy [Summary] =>

Our time is almost up. As the clock ticks closer and closer to the final Partial expiration date, humans and Partials stand on the brink of war. Caught in the middle, thousands of miles apart, are Samm and Kira: Samm, who is trapped on the far side of the continent beyond the vast toxic wasteland of the American Midwest; and Kira, now in the hands of Dr. Morgan, who is hell-bent on saving what’s left of the Partials, even if she has to destroy Kira to do it.

[DatePublished] => 2014-04-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1309213 [Title] => What’s the oldest item you have kept? [Summary] =>

Reading Lucy Torres Gomez’s Instagram post showing an old pencil sharpener given by her tita Inday as the oldest thing she owned made me ask this question to other people.

[DatePublished] => 2014-04-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136207 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1529529 [AuthorName] => Mons Romulo [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1272816 [Title] => The blood of bruised oranges [Summary] =>

Filipina-American poet Angela Narciso Torres launched her first book Blood Orange (Willow Books 2013) late last September in Illinois, serving notice that Philippine poetry in English is not only alive and well in another tropic or hemisphere, but also beating with the heart of deep kinship.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136244 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1431668 [AuthorName] => Juaniyo Arcellana [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/8275/8544.jpg ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 921151 [Title] => Magic happens as James Franco plays “Oz the great and powerful” [Summary] =>

 James Franco reunites with director Sam Raimi for their fourth project together (after playing the role of Harry Osborn in the “Spider-Man” trilogy) in Walt Disney Pictures’ 3D fantasy adventure “Oz the Great and Powerful.”

[DatePublished] => 2013-03-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Entertainment [SectionUrl] => cebu-entertainment [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 910371 [Title] => More natural disasters seen [Summary] =>

Since 2006, worldwide disasters numbered over 900 in any given year.

[DatePublished] => 2013-02-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Banking [SectionUrl] => banking [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 881739 [Title] => Rare tornado kills 3 in New Zealand's largest city [Summary] =>

An unusually destructive tornado swept through neighborhoods around New Zealand's largest city Thursday, killing three people and forcing 250 more to evacuate damaged and powerless homes.

[DatePublished] => 2012-12-06 12:29:55 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/11/newzealandr.jpg ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 840024 [Title] => Battling the Big D [Summary] =>

I used to boast to friends that I could (and did) eat whatever I wanted with gay abandon  lechon, crispy pata, chicharon, fried chicken, and generally anything that once wagged a tail.

[DatePublished] => 2012-08-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 836360 [Title] => When nature plays the game [Summary] =>

The continued flooding in the National Capital Region has all eyes and ears glued to the news updates on TV which is now 24/7.

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