Joan Bennett Chapman was 9 years old when Japanese soldiers herded her family to the Santo Tomas Internment Camp (STIC) in 1943 to join thousands of internees there until they were liberated in February 1945.
The death of her mother and the dissolution of her marriage drives Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) into years of destructive of behavior. Restless and reckless at the same time, she embarks on a 1,100-mile solo hike on the Pacific Crest Trail in a journey of self-discovery.
Two cows graze on the foreground of the relatively small 10.5 x 11 inch painting.
Violin virtuoso Joaquin Maria “Chino” Gutierrez, the young man who first wowed the late maestro Oscar Yatco when he was a mere child of 9, was only coming home for the Christmas holidays last year when he received a most unexpected e-mail on the flight back home.
The Embassy of Brazil and Instituto Cervantes present the film cycle “Cine Brasileño,” a series of recent Brazilian films to be shown every Saturday this February at the Instituto Cervantes theater.
The Culture Arts Council of Korea (CACK), a traditional performing arts group, joined the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) in the formal opening last Feb. 1 of
What makes for a modern love story? In an era loaded with cynicism and highlighted by big gestures, newly written books about romances tend to be either post-modern or nostalgically
Lita Carlos and her cousin Ernesto “Esto” Lichauco heard it at the same time late Saturday afternoon, Feb. 3, 1945— the drone of low flying aircraft. From the Lichauco residence
For 18 days beginning Feb. 12, from Vito Cruz Street to Intramuros, Manila will claim its official title of Bohemia this side of the world by donning its manton de
An artist of reinvention is Francis Nacion Jr. Known before for his colorful-genre-style paintings with highly textured etched-on-wet-paint details and half-revealed, half-hidden faces, Nacion has lately been painting in
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