Finally! After nine seasons of the highly-famous Bravo hit series Top Chef, a Filipino-American chef ended up on the top of the heap, winning the title.
The Philippine Legitimate Stage Artists Group, Inc. (PhilStage), the country’s only alliance of professional performing arts companies, announces the staging of the awarding ceremonies of the 2011 Gawad Buhay!: The Philstage Awards for the Performing Arts, on July 1, 7 p.m., at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Main Theater Lobby.
His vital signs may have improved, but comedian Dolphy remains at the intensive care unit of the Makati Medical Center, so calls for him to be proclaimed National Artist, while they may have abated in the meantime, are expected to continue. But the drawn-out selection process and other inconvenient realities may conspire to rule out any immediate proclamation.
The prize-giving ceremony of the Louis Vuitton Classic Serenissima Run took place recently at Piazza San Giorgo, where the cars were put on display, in Venice.
As tradition has dictated for the past 29 years, National Children’s Book Day is celebrated on the third Tuesday in July.
The 2012 Nobel Prize season opened Monday with the pick for the medicine award, marking the start of a week of announcements and speculation over who will collect the literature and peace prizes.
However artificial and constructed, cinema should be used to depict social reality, said Tito Valiente, president of Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino.
The Unyon ng Mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (Umpil) has announced the seven recipients of the 2013 Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas: writers Alicia Tan Gonzales (fiction in Hiligaynon); Grace Hsieh-Hsing Lee (poetry in Chinese); Francisco T. Ponce (fiction in Ilocano); Eduardo Jose E. Calasanz (poetry in Filipino); Rolando B. Tolentino (fiction and essay in Filipino); Mario I. Miclat (fiction in English and Filipino); and Floy Quintos (drama in Filipino).
The National Book Development Board (NBDB) and the Manila Critics Circle (MCC) have announced the finalists for this year’s National Book Awards.
Poetry and music will take center stage at this year’s Maningning Miclat Awards on Sept. 25 at the Abelardo Hall of the College of Music of the University of the Philippines, Diliman, QC.
