The story has been told many times it has become stuff of legend. In 1929, when José Garcia Villa was...
Touted as a milestone, “Mir-I-Nisa” is the first-ever three-act ballet based on a story by National Artist for Literature Jose Garcia Villa. The ballet premiered during the inaugural season of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) in 1969.
I learned from Igan D’Bayan’s column in The Star that the great David Medalla was in town. It brought me back to the Ermita days of the ’50s, when some rubble still remained from the bombing of the Ermita-Malate area during the Liberation.
Filipino writer Carlos Bulosan’s seminal work, the novel “America is in the Heart,” will be released internationally by Penguin Random...