Scottish iPhone filmmaker wins Turner Prize
An openly gay Scottish artist who celebrated queer lives in a short film shot on an iPhone won Britain’s prestigious Turner Prize Tuesday.
December 5, 2018
An openly gay Scottish artist who celebrated queer lives in a short film shot on an iPhone won Britain’s prestigious Turner Prize Tuesday.
Three small companies run by Hispanic moms are capitalizing on a growing market for Spanish books in the United States.
Instead of her usual jampacked major concert at Cultural Center of the Philippines and similar capacious venues, Cecile Licad is performing in a southern mansion, a church, a cinema, a convention center, a modest-sized auditorium and a carabao center.
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The Ateneo de Manila University Press was named Publisher of the Year at the 37th National book Awards last Nov. 24 at the National Museum. Ateneo received six awards, the most of any publisher. This was the second straight year it was named Publisher of the Year.
The gloriously resplendent sets, the atmospheric fog, delicate falling snowflakes, the flying sled, Tchaikovsky’s moving score and the cast of nearly a hundred in “The Nutcracker” never fail to hold audiences spellbound. Every year, the packed Main Theater at Cultural Center of Philippines is the reward for Philippine Ballet Theater’s (PBT) season of hard work.
Sometimes you just need an old-fashioned story and a master storyteller to write a good book. That is the case with “The Reckoning: A Novel” (Doubleday, New York, 2018, 420 pages), the new book from John Grisham, the master of the courtroom thriller and author of 1989’s “A Time to Kill,” among many, many others.
On view at Galerie Anna are the recent works of Toti Cerda in a solo show billed as “Hapi Tots.” Cerda is an acknowledged master watercolorist triumphing in the 25-year old competition Kulay sa Tubig.
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