September 2026
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Biringan: The City with Excellent Credit
Keep reading →: Biringan: The City with Excellent CreditDreamWorks made the first major animated feature built from Philippine mythology, and the legend the film never mentions is an invisible city with delivery trucks and a rule about black rice.
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Paraiso: The Singer Went Back
Keep reading →: Paraiso: The Singer Went BackIn October 2025, Geneva Cruz returned to the Smokey Mountain neighborhood in Tondo and sang “Paraiso” for five hundred residents fighting to keep the ground the song was written about.
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Manila: The Record Deal That Fell Through in Hawaii
Keep reading →: Manila: The Record Deal That Fell Through in HawaiiBefore Hotdog gave Manila its anthem, the Garcia brothers lost a recording deal in Honolulu because they didn’t have a single original song to play.
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Ang Huling El Bimbo: The Half-German Muse
Keep reading →: Ang Huling El Bimbo: The Half-German MuseSomewhere in the first verse of “Ang Huling El Bimbo,” a girl is compared to Paraluman, and the real Paraluman was born with the name Sigrid Sophia Agatha de Torres von Giese.
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Handog ng Pilipino sa Mundo: The Video That Wouldn’t Stay Hidden
Keep reading →: Handog ng Pilipino sa Mundo: The Video That Wouldn’t Stay HiddenThe music video was censored on Philippine television in 1986 and age-restricted on YouTube thirty-six years later, and neither time made the song any quieter.