Over the next two weeks, De La Salle High School Class 1962 marks 50 years since graduation day with a series of events that celebrate our having been together for (would you believe it?) most of our lives.
The Metro Manila Concert Orchestra (MMCO), conducted by its founding music director Josefino “Chino” Toledo, capped its 11th concert season with a rousing performance at the Francisco Santiago Orchestra, BDO in Makati.
The first time Fokine’s immortal choreography “The Dying Swan” (to the music of Saint-Saëns) was seen at the Cultural Center of the Philippines was in 1981, when the great Maya Plisetskaya danced it in Manila when she was already pushing 60.
For its 28th installment, the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Conservatory of Music’s “Sampung Mga Daliri” will not only showcase homegrown talents but also feature a special performance by Polish pianist Lech Napierala.
AHA Chef Bambi Lichauco shows how to prepare and cook Chicken Mango Tortillas. Video by INQUIRER.net’s Cathy Miranda.
“The Japanese government has been heavily criticized for the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. But has anyone ever thought of telling the story of the positive contribution of technology to the disaster?” said filmmaker Hiroshi Nakazawa.
This is the story of a house from an old, forgotten era in San Fernando, Pampanga, and a man from the cloistered world, and how the two have reconnected themselves to today’s world that is vastly different, congested and threatened.
“This great season of grace is your gift to your family to renew us in spirit…”—from Preface of Lent II, The Spirit of Penance
Buffy, Dad’s dog, wasn’t originally his. I had given Buffy as a present to my eldest daughter, Vina, when she was in sixth grade. Buffy was a champagne-colored cocker spaniel, handsome and affectionate, who quickly endeared himself to my daughter and just as easily attached himself to Dad.
Trust the doting wife to cook up something different for her husband’s birthday. Noted sculptor Ramon Orlina’s wife Lay Ann did just that to celebrate his recent birthday.
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