Manila is in for a sensational 2014 year-end treat as Broadway’s award-winning smash hit musical “Chicago” hits the country for the first time in a strictly limited season beginning December 2 this year, setting the stage sinfully ablaze in the country’s newest theatrical luxury hotspot, The Theatre at Solaire.
We can be heroes through a strong will and determination to change the world—and even ourselves—for the better. Actor Derek Ramsay and Sophia School principal Ann Abacan stressed this point as they read to 65 kids stories about heroic acts of courage and humility at the Inquirer Read-Along session on Saturday.
It sounded like a scene from the movie “Miss Congeniality.” Two pageant contenders’ responses about “world peace” helped them to win the top prizes at the 2014 Mutya ng Pilipinas finals held at the grand ballroom of the Solaire Resort and Casino in Parañaque City on Friday night.
If too much nostalgia makes one feel older, perhaps just a bit of it can be rejuvenating.
There, in the presumption that, having lived longer and seen more, one knows better, lies the great burden of age. I may have been lugging that burden around perforce, but I’m not as eager to dispense from it as I used to, as an editorialist. Retired now from that weighty job, I’ve determined precisely to lighten my load and brighten my days.
At the start of his classic work, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” C. S. Lewis writes this dedication to his goddaughter, Lucy: “My Dear Lucy, I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales… But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
It’s the eve of the exhibit opening and two of the three young featured artists are still in the midst of deciding which piece goes where.
I am 29 years old, separated since last year and processing my annulment. As I moved on, I met a neighbor who is also separated, has a child and undergoing her own annulment. We started talking and became friends last year.
We arrived in church just as they had closed the door right before the bridal march, and heard Monique Lhuillier’s repeated plea to the wedding coordinator: “Please, I need to fix my mom’s dress.”
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