The Department of Tourism (DOT), together with the Yes Tourism Committee of the Shoe Mart malls, has initially conducted three separate Specialized Tourism Awareness Seminars for frontline service personnel at the Mall of Asia, Mega Mall, and North EDSA. The seminars have a total of 1,540 graduates.
Filipino artist Rodel Tapaya won on Thursday night the grand prize in the Asia-Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize, an international art contest of Asia-Pacific artists, for a mural that weaves together ancient myths and folklore with current realities, such as environmental degradation and flooding.
It was Steve Jobs who had approached Walter Isaacson and suggested he write Steve’s biography. Isaacson kept putting it off, until Jobs’ wife, Laurene Powell, told him bluntly that he better do it soon if he really wanted to.
He was a true blue hippie. As a young man, Jobs would walk to work barefoot. He lived in a commune of free spirits, went to India to find a guru and railed against authority.
Strangely, it was “Survivor”—and not “Fight Club”—that became my gateway to the cult of Chuck Palahniuk. And what’s even stranger is that it wasn’t a book but an audio book that got me hooked. Before “Survivor,” I had never been able to force myself to listen to an audio book in its entirety. But that’s Chuck Palahniuk for you—his words just grip you, the format doesn’t matter.
I had a leather bound screenplay with all the revisions that the cast and the director had written little notes in to me. I gave that to my editor Gerry Howard. They gave me a set of blueprints for the paper street house, the big Victorian mansion. Those I donated to an auction to benefit a girl who had been crippled in a car accident.
Two of his novels have been made into movies—“Fight Club” and “Choke”—and at least eight others have been optioned. “Invisible Monsters” will most likely be the next Chuck Palahniuk full feature film you’ll see—it’s already in development.
It’s almost 7 p.m. on a cold November Friday in New York, and Liana Hunt is sitting in her dressing room in Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre. Coffee in hand and still wearing her own clothes, she’s busy signing “Mamma Mia” posters. It’s one hour before the curtain rises.
The international tour of the highly anticipated musical will be staged at the Cultural Center of the Philippines Main Theater starting 24 January 2012.
When Apple touted Siri as one of the best new features of the iPhone 4S, I wasn’t that eager to try her out. Voice activated commands on a phone have always been sketchy, and it always ends up being a source of entertainment for us when we let it pronounce—and mangle—Filipino last names.
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