Pianist Ingrid Sala Santamaria recently donated a Kawai parlor grand piano to Sta. Isabel College of Music, her alma mater, where she earned her Master of Music degree in Piano Performance in 1962, under Aida S. Gonzalez.
Giant logs washed out and fished from the sea and cut in sections take center stage at Warehouse 17 (La Fuerza Compound, Chino Roces Avenue [Pasong Tamo], Makati).
This year’s Virgin Labfest will present 10 new works: three sets of one-act trilogies and one full-length (two-act) play at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP). (See lineup below.)
AHA Chef Instructor Joey Carpo shows how to prepare and cook Pork Satay.
Among the most low-key, unassuming yet hardworking people I know are the daughters—the heiresses-apparent—of some of the country’s most powerful fathers. Meeting them makes my job a lot more interesting. They’re a lesson in modesty and how not to wear the mantle of power.
How do you define “extreme” in the most explosive, home-building sense of the word? This is how TV5 defines it: For the season-ender of “Extreme Makeover Home Edition Philippines,” or EMHEP as we have come to know it on Twitter, the show is unveiling not just one new home for a deserving family, but 28 houses for an entire community!
My husband had a stroke three months ago, and I cannot wait for him to die. We’ve been married 35 years and all those years were miserable and bitter in my memory. I was a docile wife who waited on and catered to my husband’s every whim. But he repaid it horribly by being an awful husband. He battered me physically and emotionally. He disrespected and humiliated me in front of his women. He went from one girlfriend to another, had five children out of wedlock, and only cared for himself.
“Don’t throw your shawl on the sofa!” commanded a voice from the dark. So back to stage left I went to do a reentrance. But the voice continued. That voice could never be contained.
“You have a stage prop. Use it!”
Marian Rivera should iron out differences now if she is to expect long-term satisfaction in her relationships. Unfortunately, there are indications at this time that her destiny is such that she should spend money on the wrong people for the wrong reasons. Caution is absolutely necessary and she must be clear in delineating business from pleasure throughout the next year or two.
Bull session. That was how it was called in the all-girl elementary school I attended in the mid-’70s. You were marked once called to a “bull session.” It was like the kiss of death. Classmates would form a circle around you, then tell you everything they didn’t like about you.
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