Let children have fun through power of play
Children who don’t play outdoors regularly may have a hard time socializing with peers as they get older, according to experts.
May 11, 2013
Children who don’t play outdoors regularly may have a hard time socializing with peers as they get older, according to experts.
COUNT THEM—22 productions in just the first five months of the year, from the small two-character drama (“Red”) to the all-stops-out musical extravaganza (“Ibalong,” “Katy”). Local theater is at its most prolific and exciting in years; and so, before the last days of summer ring the curtain down on the old season to usher in the new by June—and with memory the only antidote to the ephemeral nature of theater—we thought we’d look back and salute the performances that lit up the stage and occasioned cheers in the previous months.
Talk about perfect timing: Just as soon as election madness is through, a coup of the musical kind unleashes on May 18. The Wanderland Music and Arts Festival is happening at the newly constructed Globe Circuit Events Ground, with Australian indie-rock phenomenon The Temper Trap headlining.
Being alone for a week in the middle of nowhere may not be a bad thing. It was, in fact, a very prolific period for Dave Baxter, the man behind the New Zealand folk band Avalanche City.
Prague was not on the original itinerary of a family holiday, but its proximity to Budapest made it a stop before we proceeded to Berlin. It looked close enough when viewed from a map but, in fact, the route was a good five-hour leisurely drive. Still, preferred company made it pleasant and enjoyable.
Every election year, Rock Ed Philippines, a nationwide youth movement for civic involvement, hosts gigs for clean and honest elections. They call these gatherings “Malinis, Please.” (Malinis is Filipino for clean.)
The Silly People’s Improv Theater (SPIT) has been around for slightly more than a decade now, chalking up more than 500 performances here and abroad with their jokes, puns, double-entendres, spoofs, skits, what-have-you, all improvised, unscripted, unrehearsed and totally spontaneous shows.
Stella Cañete was recently seen on stage in Dulaang Unibersidad ng Pilipinas’ stagings of “The Seagull” and its Filipino adaptation “Ang Tagak,” both as Polina; and “Collection,” as Tatiana Olandres. She was also in De La Salle-College of St. Benilde’s “Imaginary Invalid” as Angelique and its Filipino version, “Le Praning Du Sining,” as Toinette.
If you’ve been continuously updating your alternative/indie-rock playlist for the past several years, it’s almost impossible not to have come across Nada Surf.
There’s nothing quite like extreme hunger to spark a great idea. While working as a management consultant at Bain and Company in New Delhi, Zomato founder and CEO Deepinder Goyal would witness an event every lunch time that would lead to the conception of his brainchild, a website about restaurants, bars, pubs and clubs.
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