For years, we’ve obsessed over pon de ring donuts, those soft, chewy, lovely mochi donuts that look like oversized bead bracelets. We’ve carried boxes and boxes of them home from Japan. One time, while waiting for my flight back to Manila, I found them at an airport in a random city and I literally emptied my pockets and spent the last of my dollars on yet another box of those donuts. I can’t remember the city but I can remember the donuts. They were good.
TV and film comedy actress Eugene Domingo (“Kimmy Dora”) will portray Bona, the role immortalized by Nora Aunor in the original Lino Brocka film, in Philippine Education Theater Association’s (Peta) stage adaptation, “Bona.”
No mysterious air surrounds her, and perhaps that is what lends most to her mystique. She comes, she goes. She embarks on her travels, a few days here, a month or two there.
Over mint lemonades, sausage-thick cheese sticks that they can easily burn through golf and the stray diet soda, Rhona Lopa-Macasaet, Cecile Lopez Lilles and Chichi Fadullon-Lizot look like ladies of leisure sneaking time off from a full schedule of carpooling or playing soccer mom or corporate wife. They unmistakably exude the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie.
Celebrity endorsers are not known for lingering in events which they are obliged to attend. As if to keep their mystique, they come on time but leave immediately after the requisite picture-taking and handshaking. Not John Lloyd Cruz.
When Arthur Bispo do Rosario needed art supplies within the psychiatric institution where he lived, he'd barter cigarettes or trade favors with the guards. When that didn't work, he'd sometimes rough up fellow inmates and snatch away their belongings.
Bench has come a long way from its humble beginnings to the widely popular brand it is today, dahlings, and it’s still on a roll—judging by its latest Bench Body show held recently at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City.
Here's a note from the designer on his latest collection.
Golda King has us smitten, not just with her art but with her cerebral yet intuitive approach to it....
Being alone for a week in the middle of nowhere may not be a bad thing. It was, in fact, a very prolific period for Dave Baxter, the man behind the New Zealand folk band Avalanche City.
