Chance, coincidence or, in the word of Carl Gustav Jung, “synchronicity,” defined as “the simultaneous occurrence of two unrelated or acausal but meaningful events,” definitely presents a serious challenge to the most fundamental assumptions or principles of science regarding the nature of reality.
Every day we are bombarded not just by viruses and bacteria, but also a new kind of enemy—environmental toxicity.
International pianist Sofya Gulyak recently electrified Manila audience anew in a solo recital at the CCP Little Theater. This was only weeks after her sterling collaboration as featured soloist of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra in its final concert for the season.
When American pianist Raffi Kasparian and his 13-year-old son, Roman, perform at the Northern Christian College Auditorium in Laoag City on July 14, it will bring back memories of a few concerts mounted in Ilocos Norte some years ago.
In the middle of superheroes and mainstream literature characters making the jump from the page to the silver screen, filmmakers are digging deeper to come up with the next blockbusting mega-earner.
It looked cool. I wanted to have it for myself, I wanted to source it,” Padmapani Perez said of the odd yellow-and-pink plastic pasiking she saw bobbing up and down on others’ backs while she walked or biked around Baguio City and its environs.
Inabel and binakol, the weaving traditions of the Ilocos, served as take-off points of discussion in a forum tackling the plight of weavers and craftsmen in Southeast Asia and China.
The Lopez Memorial Museum and Library, currently located in Benpres Building in Pasig City, will transfer to Rockwell Center, Makati City.
Zamboanga fictionist and 2000 Southeast Asia Write laureate Antonio Enriquez breathes life into the obscure fringes of Filipino memory with “The Survivors” (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2011).
Either due to ambition or page count, certain books need to be approached like projects by readers. Like rare animals, these cannot be expected to behave the same way as the more usual books. The greater the ambition, the greater the page count, the more readers have to prepare themselves to devote time and effort to be able to finish reading such monoliths.
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