-
Cebu broadcaster (a lawyer!) lets child rape victim recount abuse in lurid details on air
Controversial broadcaster Juril Patiño on Wednesday let a 4-year-old rape victim recount her experience in lurid details and on air over Brigada News FM. “Mao to gi open na nimo imong ba-ba unya iyang gipasud ang iyang kinatawo or otin,” Patiño said early in the segment as he and Dennes Tabar were talking to the…
-
What Boljoon lost: The Baptism of St. Augustine by Severino Flavier Pablo
For two centuries, the baptistery of the Boljoon Church was adorned with a painting by Manila-based artist Severino Flavier Pablo of the baptism of St. Augustine. It was lost in the late 1970s or early 1980s, allegedly stolen by the town’s parish priest.
-
Please stop calling the panels stolen: Andoni Aboitiz and an ambush interview at the Capitol
Andoni Aboitiz, chair of the National Museum of the Philippines (NMP) Board of Trustees, met with Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia at the Capitol late Tuesday afternoon. I wrote about it for Rappler here: National Museum cautions vs labeling heritage church panels as ‘stolen’ property
-
Why did Bautista donate the panels to the National Museum and not to Boljoon?
Several people I talked to separately all said essentially the same thing: Edwin Bautista initially wanted to donate the panels directly to Boljoon but then changed his mind and donated it to the National Museum of the Philippines instead.
-
Boanga no?
What’s your verbal mannerism? Mine is to say, “boanga no?” (That’s crazy or isn’t that crazy?)