NEWS ABOUT Sublimity in print. The plan was simple.  Visit every single one of the 22 museums participating in this year’s Gabii sa Kabilin, an annual one-night event where museums all across Metro Cebu have their doors open until midnight for people to stop by.  In my USC branded tote bag were a plastic water … Gabii sa Kabilin 2024 And Everything Else Read More »

NEWS ABOUT Sublimity in print. Cancer is a peculiar thing, your body is a petri dish for testing different medical treatments and all you have to do is win the battle. I always wondered, after watching and reading a lot about cancer patients, what gave them so much strength to find love amidst the pain … Fault In Our Stars: Love In The Time of Sickness Read More »

Make sure to ready buckets of krill, fish, and squid because we are celebrating World Penguin’s Day!

NEWS ABOUT Sublimity in print. As the official paper of DCLL of the University of San Carlos, HALANGDON reflects what the word “art” means in all of its programs as the department has plenty of artists in many creative expressions. Communications, Linguistics, Literature—DCLL offers programs for betterment of self-expression. True to our motto, we chose … Art: Creation Given Form, Pain Given Meaning Read More »

NEWS ABOUT Sublimity in print. SOLARES held its first art festival titled ‘Sulyap sa Sining’ at the Ayala Central Bloc Activity Center, featuring DCLL student writers, painters, filmmakers, and photographers alongside other Cebuano artists in a celebration of artistic expression. The event began its first day on Thursday, April 18, 2024 and is set to conclude … SOLARES’ Sulyap sa Sining First Day Exhibits Local Cebuano Arts Read More »

'Chorizo de Cebu’is a sausage from the Queen City of the South as part of its Spanish Heritage. This famous Philippine delicacy originating from Cebu is a red flavorful bomb made from ground pork fat and pork lean, salt, sugar, black pepper, and chilis, among other ingredients. I could go into great detail of its rich history, but I do not want to turn this article into another Wikipedia entry. I am here for something different, and that is to share my personal experience about these delicious balls of flavor.

NEWS ABOUT Sublimity in print. Theater has been around for thousands of years and its life-changing power has moved and held humans for that long. It’s a special kind of storytelling because it’s never gonna be the same thing twice and it’s inherently communal – the way things are meant to be in this world. … Metamorphosis: Life in Theater and Theater in Life Read More »

Whether it was through his outspoken commentary on Cebuano Life in DYSS Super Radyo, his witty and fearless writing style in Sunstar Cebu, or his unwavering charisma on top of a voice that commanded respect at the GMA-7 Broadcast, Bobby Nalzaro was an icon that forever stands as an inspiration to all Cebuano journalists.

“She is just a woman.”  Not every milestone in history is remembered, as countless stories have faded into obscurity, so too the pain and triumph that defines the life a person has lived. In the case of women, for all their struggles, their pain and hard work, the burden of their own gender often drags … SHE IS JUST A WOMAN Read More »

“I told you so” are four words that flutter so easily out of my mouth and anyone who knows me even a little is fully aware that I will take any opportunity to vocalize how I was in fact right.

The School of Arts and Science Council conducted a Film Showing event held at the PE Viewing room last February 13, 2024 Tuesday. It is the second in a set of LoveFest events held in anticipation of Valentine’s Day for our hopeless romantic Carolinians.

In honor of Valentine's week, the SAS Council held the Lovefest Seminar on Wednesday, February 12, 2024, at 1:30–4:30 p.m. at the PE viewing room, themed as “Love to the Point of Creation,” it was inspired by the creation of rubber gloves.

100 years ago today, the tenth anniversary of the start of WW1 was four months away. The Philippines, in the middle of its first and second republic was under American rule in the roaring 20s, the Korean Peninsula had been under Japanese rule for over a decade, and Germany's Weimar Republic will arrest Adolf Hitler in the coming month only to release him by December. In three months J.Edgar Hoover will be appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and a month prior Vladimir Lenin died. The Summer Olympics will be held in Paris and the Chinese Zodiac was the year of the Rat. It was Valentine's Day and Juan Ponce Enrile was born.

Sure enough, people have conflicting feelings towards celebrating on the 14th of February. Regardless if Valentine’s day lifts your spirits high up in the love-filled air or drags you mercilessly down a chilling pithole, a good romance book will never fail you.  RomComs, romantic dramas, tragic romances — you name it! So long as one … 5 ROMANCE BOOKS AVAILABLE IN LRC Read More »

105 DCLL students eagerly welcomed the activity-packed Second Semester following the first General Assembly titled ‘MAGSTORYA TA, KA-SOLARES!: a discourse unfiltered’ of the second half of A.Y. 2023-2024 by the Societas Lingua Artes (SOLARES) held at the SAS Viewing Room at the Philip Van Engelen Building last Saturday, February 3, 2024.

There is a murder — everyone is a suspect. Do you have a good alibi? The clues. The red herrings. The witnesses. The detective. Who’s up for murder mysteries and detective stories that’ll keep you guessing?

A beloved tradition of Catholic Filipinos during the holidays, Misa de Gallo is a nine-day novena mass held at the crack of dawn from December 16 until the eve of Christmas. However, there is another set of masses held by some churches, called Simbang Gabi, which spans from the 16th to the 23rd of December. The two traditions are often confused with each other, but their differences are best understood through their history.

Last Thursday December 7, 2023, the first-year students of the Literary and Cultural Studies with Creative Writing (LCS) held a literary festival on PE13C, alongside a continuation of PALABRA’s Pages and Threads Book Sale in the basement halls of the PE building.

Societatis Lingua Artes (SOLARES), an official co-curricular organization of the Department of Communications, Linguistics, and Literature (DCLL), conducted its second general assembly to discuss their accomplishments for the first semester of A.Y. 2023-2024 at the Rigney Hall in USC Talamban Campus last Saturday, December 2, 2023.

Of no doubt, we strive and seek quality, fairness, and order. The quality and the luxury of receiving such materials that do not only aid us in survival but also allow us to experience the finesse of what we desire to have being treated with fairness and genuine treatment to every person we know and to get to know yet with our uniqueness and very self. The order and union with every person we are with through every journey and situation However, not all have experienced these kinds of treatments. Not all experience equality, justice, and peace. And most of them, sadly, are women.

Dearly beloved we are all gathered here today to mourn for a dear companion. A sorrowful demise but to those that knew the departed well, not an unexpected one. Join me as I detail my personal experience witnessing the final days of a friend. This is a eulogy to Litfest.

Sponsored by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and in cooperation with the Department of Communications, Linguistics and Literature (DCLL) as well as various other academic organizations, the conference was held with the intention of educating Carolinians on how local food and cuisine influences Visayan Societies.

Picture this, I sit on a crowded 13C jeepney on the way to Colon and I use "sit" very generously because three quarters of my rear end are sat upon nothing but air molecules. The anachronistic hands of my tablet's clock app read 2:00PM, the horizon remained to be tinted blue with orange bronze hues a few hours from engulfing the sky. The museum closes at 4:30PM, forty minutes had passed and the jeep had only just now passed Country Mall, this is bad.

Sa atubangan sa USC, atong makita ang Ferlic Tan's Crispy Chicken, usa ka pungko-pungko nga namaligya ug mga piniritong pagkaon sama sa manok. Naa sad silay baligya piniritong hotdog, ngohiong, ug lumpiya. Lami ug makabusog ang ilang mga paninda, sama kalami pud ang iyang presyo nga barato para sa tanan. Apan gawas nga kini lugar nga sentro sa pagkaon, usa usab kini ka lugar diin ang usa ka istorya nagsugod nga gitipigan.

The Department of Anthropology, Sociology, and History (DASH) hosted a film viewing event as part of the Rudolf Rahmann Lecture Series, titled "Short Films and Its Relevance to Cebuano Culture and Society Featuring Huwebes Huwebes and Sibuyas ni Perfecto." Along with the faculty and students of the DASH, film media students from Cebu Normal University, specifically from the school organization CiNe-U, as well as several students from other departments of the School of Arts and Sciences were also present.

We all have that one place we come back to for studying and for fun, whether it be with friends our ourselves. Just in time for Midterms week, Here are the best near TC has to offer, arranged by yours truly: Halangdon!

To commemorate this year's World Mental Health Day, let us journey inside the mind labyrinth of Disney-Pixar's most cerebral film, Inside Out. In the year 2015, Inside Out was best known for its creative setting of little voices inside our heads, representing our emotions; joy, sadness, anger, disgust, and fear.

USC-TC—School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) Council conducted its traditional Pep Rally 2023 to send off SAS Majesties athletes for the USC Days 2023 at the Philip Van Engelen Building – Open Theatre in Talamban Campus around 4-6 p.m., Friday, October 6.

Pulong sa mga Alagad sa Obra (PALABRA) finally held an intimate and cozy assembly for the academic year 2023-2024 on September 30, 2023. Led by Jason Yntig, the PALABRA president, and the event’s host, Joshua Carillo, the treasurer for PALABRA and 2nd year representative. Yntig officially began the program by giving his sincerest warm welcome … Mga Alagad sa Obra: Into the Lit Major’s General Assembly Read More »

Big Bad Wolf (BBW) howled early access last September 14, 2023, Thursday, at Lower Ground Level, Cube Wing, Seaside SM City Cebu. Pulong sa mga Alagad sa Obra (PALABRA) of Bachelors of Arts in Literary and Cultural Students with Creative Writing from University of San Carlos hunted the wolf at his very own lair! Awo~ 

On September 23, the Department of Communications, Linguistics and Literature (DCLL) hosted an online Press Freedom Week Talk in commemoration of Cebu’s 31st Press Freedom Week, with the title, “Through the Watchdog’s Eyes: Involvement and Challenges.”

Matalinghaga ang mga Pilipino, mahilig sila sa mga mabulaklak na pananalita, sila'y isang mala-tula na tao. Kahit ano man ang pinag uusapan, sa mga karaniwang bagay-bagay hanggang sa mga pinaka matindi't mabigat na usapan, lumalabas talaga ang espiritu ni Balagtas. At ano pa bang makaraniwan ngunit mabigat ang mas nakaka higit pa sa kamatayan.

Last September 1 and 2, in partnership with the Unified Artists of Cebu under the guidance of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, the Cebuano Studies Center held its Zoom conference to give a platform to various Visayan various theater and dramatic arts groups.

Did you know that blueberries grow naturally in the Philippines too? A new species was even discovered here in Cebu back in 2018 by Sir Val Salares under the University of San Carlos’ Department of Biology, alongside his team of researchers from other universities.

On September 1, Societatis Lingua Artes (SOLARES) President Remoto teased future activities and events for the first semester of the academic year to the Department of Communication Linguistics and Literature (DCLL) student body at this year’s General Assembly.

The movie Oppenheimer, which first aired in Philippine Cinemas on July 19, 2023, depicts the journey that J. Robert Oppenheimer took to design the first ever nuclear bomb. The physicist’s legacy with nuclear fission is a scientific milestone of destructive potential, something the world understood well when the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and ended World War 2.

This National Heroes Day, Halangdon would like to spotlight some of the Filipino women throughout history and the different forms of heroism they have shown throughout their lives.

On August 21, 1983, thousands flocked to the Manila International Airport, all wearing yellow clothes and tying yellow ribbons to the surrounding trees following the song “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree.” It was all to welcome an exile who to them was the strongest resistor to an unjust regime that ruled the country for many years. Who, despite the warnings of family and friends, returned to his homeland knowing the dangers that await him. As he stood before the oppressions of the Martial Law Regine before, he would rather die on his feet with honor than live on bended knees in shame.

As the earth rumbles our buildings and homes could only sway in its mercy. They are caused by extensive cracks along the Earth's surface called "faults" or "fault lines", displaced by the constantly moving hot layer underneath called the "Mantle". The result is a massive movement or upheaval of the Earth's surface and unprecedented human casualties. These are earthquakes, and they happen all around the world, in some places more so than the others. The Philippines is one of such places.

To start the new academic year, the Societatis Lingua Artes (SOLARES) held their first-ever Academic Orientation last August 15, 2023, at the School of Arts and Sciences Open Theater. The orientation was attended by the students of the Department of Communication Linguistics and Literature (DCLL) from the freshmen to the seniors, together with the DCLL faculty members.

Woven intricately into Visayan culture—tagay has become a cherished social and recreational activity of the Visayan (Cebuano) people where friends and family come together to enjoy alcoholic beverages at clubs and karaoke sessions. While it did not exist in the same manner in the past, the culture of drinking can be traced back to pre-colonial times, taking on different forms and cultural significance throughout history.