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                    [Title] => Ernest meets Nestor
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A couple of months ago, I wrote a piece here about the Nobel prizewinning novelist Ernest Hemingway’s brief visit to Manila in February 1941.

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Creating this year’s Kaplag Grand re-enactment marks the 450th year of Catholicism in the country. The beloved Santo Niño de Cebu is the oldest symbol of these four centuries of faith in the Philippines.

[DatePublished] => 2015-02-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1321750 [AuthorName] => Floy Quintos [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 613094 [Title] => UP DECL celebrates centenary with an Anton Juan play [Summary] =>

The Department of English and Comparative Literature, College of Arts and Letters of the University of the Philippines-Diliman marks its centenary with a play adapted from Griselda Gambaro’s Information for Foreigners as part of its ongoing celebration.

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I always feel like I’m cheating a bit when I publish letters from readers instead of dreaming up a column from scratch, but the art of letter-writing (as opposed to the monologue of blogging) being endangered as it is, I feel even worse about putting well-crafted letters aside after a polite acknowledgment.

[DatePublished] => 2009-02-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 403967 [Title] => E. Ordoñez, an Oxford don and George Yang scholars [Summary] => The following comes from the Philippine PEN Balita:

Retired academic and a leading literary critic Elmer Alindogan ... [DatePublished] => 2008-10-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135822 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 331878 [Title] => Pilgrims’ progress [Summary] => We left Baguio at the end of the UP Writers’ Workshop last April 8, just in time to avoid the crush of about 150,000 visitors the city expects every Holy Week. But if we had nothing else to do – no work, no family, no meetings, no deadlines – I’m sure many of us would have stayed on for a few more days of real rest and rejuvenation, so intense was the workshop itself and the post-prandial binges where some of the most interesting discussions typically took place.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 217656 [Title] => The primitives Larry Francia and Alex Hufana [Summary] => Last June 5, my brother-in-law, Armando phoned me, "Brod, namatay na si Larry. Nabawasan na naman ang mga Ravens."

As I put down the phone, I thought of how we, too, the Primitives, are getting fewer. There were originally only five of us in the ‘50s: Leo Benesa, Andy Cristobal Cruz, Larry Francia, Alex Hufana and me.

Then last Saturday, another phone call, this time from Raul Ingles.

"Amel, si Alex, asthma and stroke daw. They’re flying him home on Aug. 6."
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1122549 [AuthorName] => Amelia LapeñA-Bonifacio [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 175083 [Title] => Lolita dating ugly duckling ngayo'y beautiful swan [Summary] => Maganda si Lolita de Leon sa personal kaysa sa mga larawan o movie o TV screen. Hindi naka-capture ng mga movie o TV cameras ang kanyang angking kariktan. "Malaki rin po ako sa screen, kaya pati boobs ko ay nama-magnify. Hindi po totoong size 40 ako, size 36 lang po pero, Cup C. Malaki lang pong tingnan dahil wala po akong taba sa likod. Talaga pong boobs na boobs ang pumupuno sa size 36. [DatePublished] => 2002-09-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135473 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1786987 [AuthorName] => Veronica R. Samio [SectionName] => PSN Showbiz [SectionUrl] => showbiz [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 170640 [Title] => Special necrological service for Arcellana [Summary] => National Artist for Literature Francisco Arcellana will be honored by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) in a special necrological service on Aug. 6, at 9 a.m. at the CCP Main Theatre.

His interment will follow in the afternoon at the Libingan ng mga Bayani at Fort Bonifacio in Makati City. He died last Thursday morning due to multiple-organ system failure. His remains lie at the Parish of the Holy Sacrifice at the University of the Philippines-Diliman.
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Francisco Arcellana wrote those lines as part of a sort of foreword – an Apology from one Idler to the Reader he called it – for a collection of 15 of his short stories, published in 1973 as Storymasters 5.

Each story he had ever written took on a life of its own; some of them, in fact, took on several lives as he rewrote them.

Arcellana was a master of words, and a master of storytelling.
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