Is the London Olympics ‘Made in China’?
Emerging sports super-power China may not have won the medal race against the United States, but it certainly topped the gold race elsewhere in the 30th Olympic Games in London.
August 13, 2012
Emerging sports super-power China may not have won the medal race against the United States, but it certainly topped the gold race elsewhere in the 30th Olympic Games in London.
Last week’s heavy monsoon rains revived memories of “Ondoy” in 2009, which had broken records, with a month’s worth of rain falling in just six hours.
Remember the young composer who did “La Gitana” at the Manila Metropolitan Theater with ballerina Vella Damian dancing to his music?
Crowds cheered at the Asiaworld Arena, with young and old members of the audience clapping and audibly gasping at the high-flying trapeze acts of Cirque du Soleil’s colorful “Saltimbanco.”
When she started working with members of the Bagobo tribe at the foothills of Mt. Apo in Davao del Sur 13 years ago, cultural worker, researcher and former Department of Tourism Region 11 director Sonja Villarica Garcia recalled that almost none of the indigenous people she dealt with were wearing their tribal costumes.
I am lucky to have a family and generous friends who regularly send me books at an average of eight a month. I try to gobble them up but
Repertory Philippines’ Children’s Theater, celebrating its 20th anniversary, is staging the musical “The Wizard of Oz,” based on the book by L. Frank Baum.
Musical theater is humming and the month of August is alive with at least three significant productions: Tanghalang Pilipino’s “Walang Sugat,” the classic zarzuela; Repertory Philippines’ “The Wizard of Oz,” another classic; and Ateneo Blue Repertory’s lively, youth-oriented “13: The Musical.”
While cultural organizations here are either fighting over leadership or just coasting along, the Philippine-Italian Association (PIA) has been organizing events with panache.
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