After controversy and a MET Gala dress, designer Puey Quinoñes is ready for the Philippine fashion scene once again
For the past few years, Puey Quinoñes found a new start in Los Angeles when his career in the Philippines met controversy. This…
‘So help me God,’ she says of this once-in-a-lifetime chance to play her hero forebear
Tanghalang Pilipino on its 30th theatrical season for its mid-season offering presents the re-staging of the acclaimed and much-awarded “Mabining Mandirigma”, a steampunk musical, this December.
Entering Ambeth Ocampo’s apartment gives the visitor an idea of what it must be like inside the historian’s mind.
“THE MORAL stance of Apolinario Mabini was his best legacy,” said novelist F. Sionil José. “He was the most intellectual...
MANTRA for the week: “Loving myself gives me the capacity to love others.”
Tanghalang Pilipino’s radical musical reimagining of Apolinario Mabini returns Feb. 19-March 13
The show’s revelatory punch is not confined to its radical casting of a female actor–the exceptional Delphine Buencamino–as Apolinario Mabini
Over lunch with Nic Tiongson and other stage directors—Chris Millado, Nanding Josef—and Teatro Pilipino personnel, they were talking about putting...
Most of our national heroes were flawed human beings, as Nick Joaquin so startlingly revealed in his “A Question of Heroes” (Filipinas Foundation, 1977). But I submit that Apolinario Mabini—due to his intellect, uprightness and uncompromising stand—was the least flawed.
Last year, Dr. Joven Cuanang and I conceptulized an art event for Apolinario Mabini’s birthday. The Apo Mabini wheelchair parade was held within the environs of St. Luke’s Medical Center Global City. Yesterday I received Wig Tysmans’ very clear photos of them and thought it would be nice to remember the event.
