Since the 1980s, a close circle of friends and I would be at the Ponce Enrile residence for Saturday evening Mass in the Enriles’ private chapel Cristina built, for she was a very pious woman, whose piety and many charitable good works would one day be rewarded with the Papal award, Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice.
Paul Torday was nudging 60 when he wrote his first novel, but now it’s a film starring Ewan McGregor.
In the days of yore, the comedian Canuplin made a name for himself in the entertainment world, modeling his antics after the great Charlie Chaplin, “the eternal tramp.”
“La Bella Confusione” was the original title Federico Fellini wanted to give his film that eventually became “8 1/2,” which then became the unacknowledged basis for the 1982 Tony-winning Broadway musical “Nine” that has music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and book by Arthur Kopit (with assist from Mario Fratti’s Italian play “Six Passionate Women”).
The International Conference on Cultural Tourism of the International Council for Monuments and Sites (Icomos) will be held in the City of Vigan, Philippines, Nov. 7-8.
The novena to Our Lady of La Naval de Manila is once again being prayed at Sto. Domingo Church, starting with the Enthronement of the historic image of Our Lady on Oct. 4 and culminating in a grand procession to be attended by tens of thousands of devotees on Oct. 14.
Tanghalang Pilipino has produced a coffee-table book, “Tanghalang Pilipino: Celebrating 25 Years of Philippine Theater,” to commemorate its recently concluded silver anniversary.
Paskong Himig, a vocal and choral competition in Pasig City, now accepts applicants to its 14th edition. It is sponsored by the Pasig City government to highlight its celebration of the Yuletide.
“Free to Choose”—This book is an inquiry into the relationship between freedom and economics by Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman. I find Friedman to be a brilliant economist, so I picked up this book.
Dominic Galicia, an architect and new editor in chief of BluPrint Magazine, sent a descriptive e-mail encapsulating the shocking state of heritage in the Philippines.
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