BACOLOR, Pampanga, Philippines — A Kapampangan zarzuela, written in 1906 and performed until before World War II broke out in...
GUAGUA, Pampanga — Religious craftsmen, known locally as “santeros” and “imagineros,” have been helping express the Roman Catholic faith in visual form for centuries.
The small tribe of poets, whose muse is Indung Kapampangan (motherland) and who vowed to nurture the “amanung sisuan” (native language), has become a shrinking community.
Karl Ernest Quiwa’s participation in the ligligan parul (giant lantern festival) today is proof that the craft, passed on through six generations in his family, is alive and thriving.
Full-time motherhood is the “only thing” 80-year-old Juliet Gomez-Romualdez did much of her life.
After playing many times to a full house in Angeles City, a musical about Pope Francis is moving to Metro Manila to be performed on the national stage for some 1,000 Filipino and Asian bishops.
Josefina Henson has scant memories about her father, artist Vicente Alvarez Dizon. She was only 5 years old when Dizon died of tuberculosis in 1947 at the age of 42.
On Saturday night when Singaporean Bryan Koh launched his book, “Milk Pigs and Violet Gold (Philippine Cookery),” Filipinos, including heritage-food chef Lilian Borromeo, were profuse with thanks.
It is not an opera house, but Pampanga’s last defense against lahar from Mt. Pinatubo built in the mid-1990s by the administration of President Fidel V. Ramos.
“Let’s get out of our Egypts so we can go to God.” Using the Biblical Egypt to portray slavery, pestilence and sin, Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle delivered this message in his homily on the Feast of the Holy Innocents on Friday.
