For its fourth year, Cinema Rehiyon, the non-competition film festival organized by the National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA) during the Philippine Arts Festival (also known as the National Arts Month every February), included video installations along with the regular fare of full-length films and short films by regional filmmakers.
The Philippine Educational Theater Association’s Filipino production of “King Lear,” directed by Nonon Padilla and running until March 4 at the Peta Theater Center, opens with a familiar scene arrestingly re-imagined.
Literature is the most intellectual of the arts, for which reason it is also the least appealing as far as the public-at-large is concerned.
Asian-American NBA star Jeremy Lin has inspired his own flavor from ice cream maker Ben and Jerry’s, but waffle cone pieces have replaced fortune cookie bits in “Taste the Linsanity.”
AHA Chef Bambi shows how to prepare and cook Pasta with Chorizo and Tomatoes
When best-selling author Suze Orman said yes to the invitation of Bank of the Philippines Islands to visit the country and speak about “financial wellness,” an advocacy of the bank and, incidentally, also Orman’s, the money guru waived her usual fees.
Family ties that bind are, indeed, the strongest. We may all get caught up in our own busy lives, but at the end of the day, family is all that matters.
As the impeachment trial was under way in the Senate, a pair of twins was being feted by family and friends, indeed the country’s power society, at ShangriLa Makati’s Rizal Ballroom on the occasion of their 80th birthday. So what was the connection?
In separate interviews, Inquirer Lifestyle finds out the formula for living of the 80-year-old twins. Joecon has eight children and 28 grandchildren; Raul has five children and 17 grandchildren.
From the two books, some very interesting similarities between Joecon and Raul Concepcion: Their curious obsession with office supplies, particularly Post-Its. They buy office supplies wherever they are, collect and keep track of these down to the smallest item. Menchu Concepcion wrote of husband Raul, “He personally puts numbers on them. He knows the critical minimum level when he has to replenish…”
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