If there’s one thing we’d like to thank the French for, aside from decadent pastries, it’s Fête de la Musique.
In the Book of Genesis, one reads that Adam lived 900 years. Methuselah lived 969 years. Abram, later renamed Abraham for reasons known only to God, lived 175 years. His wife Sarah died at 120 years old, her son, Isaac at 180.
The 7107 International Music Festival held from Feb. 22-23 in Clark, Pampanga province, had people posting their “gig hangover” online a week after the festival (#weare7107 on Twitter and Instagram). Inquirer Super attended the two-day event and here are some of our favorite moments.
New York-based writer Jessica Hagedorn will visit her birthplace, Manila, for the launch of the book “Manila Noir” on July 6, 4 p.m. at the National Book Store flagship in Glorietta 1, Makati.
When someone told Dr. Joven Cuanang that I had held my own wake, he said, tongue-in-cheek, as usual, “Tell her if she decides to ascend, I will supply the crane and the choir. I’m serious.”
In the anthology “Teacher Teacher: A Tribute to Teachers Everywhere,” there are moments captured between teacher and student that seem like “a soap opera in dire need of revision,” in the words of communications consultant Cynthia J. Gruet. These moments enabled the mentors to touch the lives and futures of the contributing writers in ways unimaginable.
What strikes you about “Superpanalo Sounds!” (UST Publishing, 2011) as you read the first lines is…the sound. Not sound in the aural sense but the clear, crisp word descriptions of sound—the kind you get from someone who remains part of today’s local literary and music scene.
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