With school opening comes stress caused by never ending homeworks, projects and exams. And the first to feel the pressure is your young skin as it absorbs or rather breaks out into dreaded acne.
The French have long been famed for their unshakeable belief in the health benefits of a glass of wine.
If there is any one quality that embodies the productions that The Necessary Theatre stage—and most of these plays are directed by cofounder Bart Guingona—it is that they make you think.
OJ Mariano is one of the fastest success stories in contemporary local theater. But that’s getting ahead of the story.
It is not easy being an Asian-American actor in the United States. It is an uphill struggle. Successes are few and far between (think “M. Butterfly” or “The Romance of Magno Rubio”). Many are called (hundreds and hundreds audition) but few are chosen.
I have always enjoyed my visits to Cebu. I love how it has all the comforts of a cosmopolitan city but the charm of a small town. As a Manila girl, it’s fantastic that, whenever I’m there, I could head to the beach in just half an hour.
When I was a grade school student at St. Scholastica’s College Manila, one of the many religious practices my parents taught me was the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Every First Friday, my mom would bring me to the circular chapel of the old Ateneo de Manila campus on Padre Faura, Manila, to attend the Mass in honor of the Sacred Heart.
I felt a rush of panic while standing on top of the 25-ft-high platform, bracing myself for my first-ever trapeze swing. Deep inside I was screaming while staring on the ground and the net that would catch me below. But somehow I managed to keep my composure as I finally took hold of the bar, bent my knees and hopped off.
Secret identities and alter egos are essential parts of a super-hero’s life. For comic book illustrator Steve Gan, his own hidden identity lies in having been a cocreator of the iconic Filipino komiks series “Ang Panday”; and now as cocreator of Star-Lord, the Marvel Comics character and leader of the titular “Guardians of the Galaxy” movie.
Project Pie has a list of tried and tested pizza combinations but most people flock to their stores for a different reason: The chance to build their own 9 1/2” pizza at a flat rate of P285.
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