Time for an honest appraisal. Let’s pause from all this jingoism, put things in their proper places, and call a spade a spade. This: Can the new crop of Filipino movies hold a candle to the filmography of the previous era? The banner year was 1976. At no other time in Philippine film history has [...]
Theater artists and peers paid tribute to National Artist for Theater and Design Salvador “Badong” Bernal who died Oct. 26 at age 66. The Philippine Theater Actors Guild said it was paying a “final standing ovation… to the master.” “Philippine theater is now one major pillar less with the demise of Salvador Bernal,” the group [...]
Something was amiss when during the formal opening of the 14th edition of the Singapore Writers Festival last Oct. 21, the proceedings started on the dot at 6 p.m., but the emcee, finding Lee Tzu Pheng not yet around to read the especially commissioned poem she wrote for the affair, made light banter with the [...]
The only Pontifical university in Asia recently got a share of the spotlight in the City of Lights, as the University of Santo Tomas of Manila brought with it the best of its 400-year-long history to a special cultural exhibition and concert at the French capital. With the theme “University of Santo Tomas: Four Centuries [...]
In Fabian de la Rosa’s “Homeward Bound,” a farmer astride his carabao trudges along a lane framed by lush, soaring bamboo from either side forming a cathedral-like dome. In Fernando Amorsolo’s pastoral paintings, modestly draped maidens take a bath along a stream under the canopy of a copse of bamboo. In Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo’s river [...]
All great love stories, says Nicholas Sparks, have to end in tragedy. “By definition, they have to,” explains Sparks. “Because if there’s no great love in the first place, you don’t feel anything. There is no tragedy. “All around the world, millions of people are dying today. And yet we’re here working, we’re not breaking [...]
The National Music Competitions for Young Artists (Namcya) announces the finalists of this year’s competition, with the theme “Musika at Sayaw, Dangal ng Lahi.” The competition is supported by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA); Cultural Center of the Philippines; Commission on Higher Education (CHEd); and Department of Education (DepEd). The finalists [...]
Chef Mike Ty shows how to prepare and cook Chicken Aragula Lumpia Salad with Coriander Chili Vinaigrette.
Once upon a time (or about 30 years ago), I still dreamt of having a Christmas Panunuluyan in our neighborhood. For three hours, we would close a strip of street in front of my house. In the last house would be the belen. I would provide the costumes.
They’re immortals. They’re happiness givers who lived and died bringing the “feel-good” and hearty laughter in our lives.
In May this year, my third grandchild and second granddaughter came into this world—about eight years after my first grandson, Emmanuel, was born.
