When postwar jazz musician Daihachi Oguchi conceived the kumi-daiko (Japanese drum ensemble) style in the 1950s, he had no idea he had given way to the birth of an alternative genre in the art of taiko (Japanese drum-playing, which refers to the instrument itself).
Baler, Aurora, does not only attract tourists because of surfing sites, of which it has aplenty due to its proximity to Pacific Ocean, but also because of its rich history.
Two student theater groups of Ateneo de Manila University announce their season lineups for schoolyear 2012-2013.
You can have another look at violinist Gina Medina when she teams up with cellist Wilfredo Pasamba and pianist Mary Anne Espina in an evening of chamber music on July 20 at Filipinas Heritage Library.
The “Walang Kupas” (unfading) zarzuela “Walang Sugat”—with its captivating music by Fulgencio Tolentino and literate libretto by Severino Reyes—is, in this music buff’s opinion, our greatest zarzuela.
AHA Chef Instructor Joey Carpo shows how to cook and prepare Stir Fried Prawns with Tamarind Sauce.
Maita Gomez—she of the landed gentry and genteel upbringing, convent school-bred (Assumption and St. Scholastica’s College, Manila), top Pitoy Moreno model, beauty queen (Miss Philippines 1967 who represented the country in Miss World the same year in the UK). Beautiful, classy, so high-society.
What happens now? It’s the question on everyone’s head after the P500-million Birkin scam story came out in Lifestyle two Sundays ago.
My husband is gay, and we’ve been married 25 years. It took a lot of pain and adjustment to be where we are now. His family knew this open secret—everyone except me, initially. I just knew I fell in love with this handsome, soft-spoken, well-dressed, rich single guy, and I thought I died and went to heaven. I was a probinsiyana with a very ambitious mother, and my parents-in-law couldn’t have found a better match for their son than me.
After the brouhaha over the voting out of Deanna Ongpin-Recto as board member and president at Alliance Française de Manille (see “Coup d’etat at Alliance Française,” Inquirer Lifestyle, June 9), and the perceived bullying of the board’s Filipino members, which had several Filipino artists (including National Artist BenCab) canceling their scheduled exhibits with the French cultural organization, sources say another Filipino board member is set to quit.
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