Naomi Campbell drew cheers on the catwalk at Paris fashion week on Sunday when the 43-year-old supermodel opened the first haute couture show of the season for Versace in a sparkling black micro sequin jacket.
It’s all about heartwarming films and inspiring documentaries in this year’s Egai Sai, the annual Japanese film festival to be held in Manila, Cebu and Davao.
The history of beads may have begun when a woman of imagination impulsively threaded a shell and tied it around her neck. Suddenly she felt beautiful, bewitched by the joy of adornment.
Supernatural subterfuge is a powerful theme in the novels of Neil Gaiman. There’s always something masquerading as something else: a god pretending to be an ordinary man (“American Gods”) or a star in the form of a girl (“Stardust”).
Before Hawaii-based Filipino-American novelist, poet and playwright R. Zamora Linmark had an inkling he wanted to write, he was a Theater-French double major who had dropped out of Journalism.
Singing actress Pinky Amador gave what may well be the performance of her life as French chanteuse Edith Piaf in Pam Gem’s “Piaf” (Atlantis Productions, directed by Bobby Garcia at the Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza). Bravura acting dovetailed with singing that remarkably sounded like the late, celebrated Piaf.
As part of the celebration of Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day, the Embassy of Spain and Instituto Cervantes de Manila will present “El Idioma español en Filipinas” (The Spanish Language in the Philippines). It will be screened at the Salón de Actos of the Instituto Cervantes today, July 1, at 7 p.m.
If ballerina Christine Rocas were a dessert, she’d be like chocolate lava cake, solid on the outside but oozing with molten sensuality from the inside. She makes you savor her every movement onstage; yet even after her performance, her dancing leaves you satisfied.
Manila Symphony Orchestra (MSO) will stage “The Trumpet Calls,” on July 6, 8 p.m., at the Francisco Santiago Hall, BDO Corporate Center, Makati.
The Diocese Malolos has a new parish church right in the capital of Bulacan, near the border of Plaridel. It has been canonically dedicated to the Santisima Trinidad (Holy Trinity) by Malolos Bishop José Oliveros.
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