Permanent Giudecca Art District to be inaugurated during Venice Biennale
The site will encompass 11 galleries as well as the national pavilions of Nigeria, Estonia and Iceland during the Venice Biennale.
When Filipinos, who live in a tropical country, think of polar bears, they think of fluffy white animals, often associated with winter.
I see two scenes clearly in my head when I think of Christmas.
The teleserye—Family squabbles? Extramarital affairs? Tearful confrontations that have provided televiewers endless hours of catharsis and entertainment? Nothing has...
Dear Sisters, I call you this, because that’s what we are, united in experiencing—and standing up to—this challenge....
I’ve accumulated quite a few experiences with Inquirer, because I was employed by this newspaper—and quit— thrice. The first time, I lasted just a day, after my article was turned on its head by a now deceased desk editor in 1991.
Like most diagnosed cancer patients, I was apprehensive about chemotherapy in 2013.
I’m looking at photographs from the 1993 production of Floy Quintos’ “Fili,” directed by Tony Mabesa and staged by Dulaang Unibersidad ng Pilipinas, the play that represented the Philippines in the Asean Theater Festival that year in Bangkok.
You know our woman in Lisbon, Ambassador to Portugal Celia Anna “Cookie” Feria, is anything but a stiff diplomat when she welcomes you to her turf with hardly any makeup, her hair in a messy bun. “Oh, call me Cookie,” she insists.
I’m sitting in the bright early summer sun—still pleasant, by tropical standards—by the fountain at the Praça do Rossio in the Baixa district of Lisbon, under the gaze of Dom Pedro IV, King of Portugal and first Emperor of Brazil, who’s standing on a 23-ft-high pedestal.
Think of a British couple having an early dinner at the rooftop Rossio restaurant of Lisbon’s posh Altis Avenida Hotel, and whispering, “This is so refreshing!” after a mouthful of kinilaw. Or the Portuguese writer who came for the adobo, which he topped his rice with. Or my favorite: the young Dutch doctor who tasted the maja blanca and the creamy guinataan—and proceeded to pour the latter over the former, proclaiming the combination “delicious.”
