Doing period costumes is nothing new to Eric Pineda. As a veteran costume designer, educator and avid researcher, Pineda always makes sure he gets the right look and feel for a specific era. But how does he redo something that has already been done with aplomb?
The highly successful MovieMov (Italian Film Festival) ended with a bang yesterday (Sunday), capped by a special press interview at the Peninsula Manila attended by luminaries from Italian cinema who had flown in from Rome just for the occasion.
Yes, he with the drop-dead Koreanovela killer looks who can whip up a mean violin performance like his father, Gilopez Kabayao, and his sisters, Sicilienne and Farida—yes, indeed, 24-year-old Gilberto, the pet (because the only) son of pianist Corazon Pineda-Kabayao, is joining the US Air Force this November.
To cap its 10th anniversary, Cebu’s Little Boy Productions (LBP) is staging one-day-only performances of Chris Martinez’s comedy “Welcome to Intelstar” and Anton Chekhov’s “The Boor” and “The Proposal.”
Touted as one of the emerging cultural hubs in the Philippines, Tagum City served as a melting pot for the largest cross-cultural interaction in the country, as some 500 representatives from indigenous communities across the Philippines gathered there during the Dayaw festival Oct. 7-9.
At the Singapore Writers Festival recently, Sir Andrew Motion, his wavy hair, eyebrows and lids already slightly gray but still blazing with manic Blakean fire, his patrician chin, cheek and jaw supremely sharp as to frame his face elementally like the gods of Parnassus, tall and lean and stooping politely to get to the level of his medium-height Singaporean hosts, cut a most dashing, almost Byronic figure, and if that passage is ridden with clichés, tendentious speech, and gross rhetorical crimes according to the book of the Samuel Johnsons and the guardians of the English language, then this writer pleads guilty. After all, it is not everyday that Asia gets to meet Britain’s Poet Laureate, the Empire’s chief minstrel and myth-maker, even if, strictly speaking, he’s already retired.
The best way to get to know painter Raul Isidro is to view his latest exhibit in ArtistSpace Gallery at Ayala Museum, until Nov. 17.
While other national leaders play golf or ride horses to relax, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono says he composes songs.
Evelyn Lauder, a member of the Estee Lauder cosmetics family who helped create the pink ribbon symbol for breast cancer awareness, has died. She was 75.
AHA Chef instructor Philip Golding shows how to prepare and cook Chicken Fricasse .
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