When retired Petty Officer First Class Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson’s book, “Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of Seal Team 10,” was published in 2007, it quickly rose to the top of the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list.
Although the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) initially shelved the Dayaw indigenous people’s national celebration in Tacloban last November due to Supertyphoon “Yolanda,” it reset the event and held a much different celebration altogether.
The secret behind the global success of Japanese popular culture—its animé, fashion, and entertainment—has always been the “careful balance (between) foreign and Japanese sensibilities,” said Renato Rivera Rusca, assistant professor at the Meiji University.
Top writers will once again gather in the country’s biggest literary festival, “Taboan,” at the Subic Freeport Zone on Feb. 24-26 in line with the National Arts Month (NAM) organized by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA).
Tabor Hill College (OAD) Choir of Talamban, Cebu, emerged Grand Prix Champion in the recently concluded Philippine International Choral Competition dubbed Sing ’n’ Joy Manila 2013.
Successful novelists are often successful because they’re mastered a form or a style that becomes identified with them. A perfect example is Amy Tan.
It was the year music, theater and dance thrived amid unpredictable monsoon floods and record-breaking typhoons and earthquakes.
Acclaimed Italian painter Francesco Giannini worked for three straight years to finish the newest mural in San Beda Chapel or the Abbey Church of Our Lady of Montserrat on Mendiola Street in San Miguel, Manila.
Supertyphoon “Yolanda” showed the best and the worst of social media. In the immediate aftermath, at least, there was none of the irreverent humor that Filipinos are known for, we who make fun of anything and anyone, even and especially our own misfortune. The enormity of the tragedy was such that not even the worst kibitzers on social media had the guts to post any wisecrack.
I never experienced a Baguio that cold and that crowded as I did last weekend. It was as if people, suddenly scared of storms and seas, flocked to this mountain resort instead, in the days after Christmas and right before the new year.
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