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Excitement filled the air one rainy night recently at Music Hall in Metrowalk, where a benefit gig called “MusiKaramay” was in progress. “There she is,” our companion told us, pointing to a corner in the club, “si Valerie Weigmann, Miss World Philippines.”
Those who stayed at home and endured the waterless Holy Week have all the reasons to go out tonight, even if it’s a Sunday.
There was a time in the 1980s when going on a night-out could mean having cheap but ice-cold beer with friends in a hole-in-the-wall joint called Tib’s on Makati Avenue. Its nondescript ambiance would morph into the essence of cool when the likes of Miguel Faustmann and his cohorts at Repertory Philippines would drop in and chug their Pale Pilsens by the roadside, music blaring from the stage actor’s Volkswagen Brazilia.
The past week was full of surprises, bringing us to places that featured performers we’ve never watched before.
Metrowalk (Meralco Ave. cor. Ortigas) is a busy commercial complex that has rows of restaurants, bars, and, according to Gary Lising, a nice poker room where he goes occasionally to beat boredom by playing cheap card games.
