Tonyo Cruz

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Big balls of candlewax, picnics, and other stories

-- my column this weekend in Manila Bulletin

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QC Karinderya gets Michelin gourmand bib

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Prince Andrew to be stripped of titles and forced to leave Windsor home King’s brother will become known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, Buckingham Palace says, in latest fallout from Epstein scandal

Andrew, brother of King Charles, alleged rapist, and friend of sex offenders:

Prince no more, evicted from royal mansion

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YouTube video by Claudia Assef The Godmother of Rock’n’Roll – Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Sister Rosetta Tharpe: "The Godmother of Rock and Roll" youtu.be/FKK_EQ4pj9A

Here and now

-- my Bulletin column this weekend, about the flawed, self-serving logic behind "wait for your turn" and "vote wisely"

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Anong petsa na?

Snapchat, Roblox and Lloyds bank hit by Amazon Web Services internet outage - live updates Dozens of the world's biggest sites including Zoom, Duolingo and Lloyds bank are having issues - Amazon Web Services says it's identified a

DOWN: Not just Canva

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Good time to check out Polotno Studio, and other open-source Canva alternatives

The Great Woman Theory of Media History: Maria Ressa, the neoliberal influencer brand and US-Philippine elite centrism Published in Media Asia (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Recommended read

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Hazard Hunter PH: free hazard assessment from DOST-PHIVOLCS and GeoriskPH

Sinubukan ko at ito ang lumabas na hazard assessment ng isang address sa QC para makita ang risks sa lindol, volcanic eruption, bagyo, etc.

Try niyo sa hazardhunter.georisk.gov.ph

Here's my Manila Bulletin column this weekend: The importance of disclosure

-- about SALNs and disclosure of relations

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𝒮𝒾𝓀𝓇ℯ𝓉ℴ𝓃ℊ 𝓂𝒶𝓁𝓊𝓅ℯ𝓉 𝓅ℯ𝓇ℴ 𝒶𝓁𝒶𝓂 𝓃𝒶 𝓃𝒾 𝓂𝒶𝓎ℴ𝓇

YouTube video by My Movie World JOEL LAMANGAN FUNNY READING OF RICKY LEE’S BOOK AGAW-TINGIN

Storytelling by Direk Joel Lamangan

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𝓗𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓸. 𝓟𝓪𝓪𝓷𝓸 𝓷𝔂𝓸 𝓷𝓪𝓹𝓪𝓹𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓽𝓪𝓷 𝓪𝓷𝓰 𝓯𝓸𝓷𝓽

ℍ𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕠. ℙ𝕒𝕒𝕟𝕠 𝕟𝕪𝕠 𝕟𝕒𝕡𝕒𝕡𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕒𝕟 𝕒𝕟𝕘 𝕗𝕠𝕟𝕥

🅗🅔🅛🅛🅞. 🅟🅐🅐🅝🅞 🅝🅨🅞 🅝🅐🅟🅐🅟🅐🅛🅘🅣🅐🅝 🅐🅝🅖 🅕🅞🅝🅣

𝙃𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙤. 𝙋𝙖𝙖𝙣𝙤 𝙣𝙮𝙤 𝙣𝙖𝙥𝙖𝙥𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙣𝙩

ℌ𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔬. 𝔓𝔞𝔞𝔫𝔬 𝔫𝔶𝔬 𝔫𝔞𝔭𝔞𝔭𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔱𝔞𝔫 𝔞𝔫𝔤 𝔣𝔬𝔫𝔱

MTV to Axe UK Music Channels at the End of the Year MTV UK will stop showing rolling music videos when it shutters its five channels at the end of the year, according to reports.

MTV to shut down UK music channels at end of 2025

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'Guarantee letters'

-- my Manila Bulletin column this weekend, about taxpayer-funded "medical assistance"

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"It's complicated" is phrase that's loaded and momentous for late Gen X and early Millennial people (aka Friendsters)

No regrets: A son's note about a teacher's last Teachers Day post

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WORLD TEACHERS DAY

Meet millennial Ruby Ana Bernardo, the new chair of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers. Youngest-ever at 33.

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Oct. 4 is the feast day of St. Francis.
Good day to remember his tocayo.

Full text here:

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Sharing my Manila Bulletin column this weekend:

ALL EYES ON CEBU

#CebuEarthquake

Sino ang papalit kay Zaldy Co?

Ako Bicol third nominee Atty. Jan Chan is the only son of Atty. Joselito Chan, the founder of ChanRobles and Associates Law Firm and a noted labor law expert.

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My Manila Bulletin column this weekend:

Yes to more anti-corruption measures

"The public is not in the mood for more abuses of power, exceptions, evidence-tampering, cover-ups or escapes."

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The Rage from the Mendiola Protests, According to Photojournalists On September 21, two Filipino photojournalists, Raffy Lerma and Ezra Acayan, captured the violent clashes in Mendiola as anti-corruption protests took place

Mendiola through the eyes of photojournalists

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Power to the people

-- notes on the significance and direction of Sept. 21, 2025

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100,000 bumaha sa Luneta, as of 12 noon #StopKorap

Magandang umaga! Maayong buntag!

See you at Luneta!

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PWD groups denounce corruption, vows to take part in Luneta rally

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