Among several gifts that will be given Pope Francis when he comes to the Philippines next week is an ostrich egg that belies its seeming insignificance upon closer look.
The holiday season in this capital city of Northern Mindanao kicked off when Eileen Canoy Escobar-San Juan unveiled the year’s edition of the miniature Christmas village at VIP Hotel in Divisoria, the city’s central business district.
The sole remaining warrior of a mystical order known as the Spook (Jeff Bridges) takes under his wing Tom Ward (Ben Barnes), a young man who has been prophecied to possess an incredible power.
This is a story about a story that spans continents and cultures, about the ugly and the beautiful, exploring the familiar and the unknown. It is about a novel you haven’t read but probably should. It’s about a Canadian teacher living in Japan who wrote about the Philippines. His name, fittingly enough, is Mike Guest.
Physics and the physical world are a pervasive element in artistic production. American sculptor Alexander Calder (d. 1976) showed that art could also be demonstrative of the physical world, that it can capture ethereal essence. His kinetic mobiles were precision pieces that exhibited an awareness of balance and movement.
Exploring three-dimensional forms has been a creative preoccupation spanning almost two and a half decades for sculptor Michael Cacnio. Now 45 years old, he presents a summary of his multistoried artmaking in “Brass Act: Michael Cacnio at 45.”
After finishing “The Hunger Games” and “Divergent” trilogies this year, I decided to take a break from dystopian-theme books and focus more on chic lit. Just a few days ago, I was following the story of Hadley and Oliver in “The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight.” This was the first Jennifer E. Smith novel I tried, thanks to a fellow bookworm who gave it to me as a gift just recently. I fell in love with the characters immediately and I just had to finish it in one sitting!
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