To all lovers of the perfectly weighed word, Seamus Heaney offered hope on this side of the grave. Heaney, 74, died Friday in a Dublin hospital some 18 years after he won the Nobel Prize in literature and gained global recognition as Ireland’s greatest poet since William Butler Yeats.
It’s almost like automatic for most tourists to get into “Eat, Pray, Love” mode when visiting Bali, Indonesia. But first-timers to this famed Island of the Gods should also be aware that traveling here would more likely result in an “eat, shop and chill” experience.
While a Filipino worker languishes in an Arab jail, awaiting execution, he decides to spend his days doing a play about another Filipino from a different century who also left the Philippines and suffered in another country: Lorenzo Ruiz.
The reprimands and raves from his colleagues have died down, and to Felix “Nonon” Padilla’s mind, he has said his final piece.
Healthy diet and delicious food seem hard to reconcile these days. For every strip of bacon, a piece of ham or roast beef, one can’t help but worry about the added calories. Another is the affordability of having a healthy meal if one is to follow a diet program.
The granddaddy of all plays on Andres Bonifacio, whether musical or straight, is composer Jerry A. Dadap’s “Andres Bonifacio: Ang Dakilang Anak-Pawis,” with Dionisio R. Salazar, a Palanca Award-winning playwright, and leading poet Rogelio G. Mangahas, as librettists.
As part of its 41st anniversary celebration, the UP Repertory Company presents “Lean,” the 1977 Gary Granada musical about iconic student activist Leandro Alejandro.
It’s a nice cool morning when I arrive in Barangay 138 in Caloocan City. Nothing really seems out of the ordinary, except for the fact that the street is blocked on both ends to make way for kids playing street football.
He wrote a single Facebook status post that galvanized tens of thousands of Filipinos into action. Music producer Ito Rapadas, disgusted with lawmakers’ abuse of the pork barrel system and siphoning off hard-earned taxpayers’ money to ghost projects through bogus nongovernment organizations, called on a million people to march as a sign of protest.
Country music may not be for everyone, but there’s something about the lyrics that will grab you. While some songs draw you with their beat and melody, a country tune tugs at the heartstrings.
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