It’s 8 p.m. on a weekend and the crowd at Matina Town Square (MTS) appears comfortably settled with their beers and pica-pica while watching the night’s featured bands.
Top writers will once again gather in the country’s biggest literary festival, “Taboan,” at the Subic Freeport Zone on Feb. 24-26 in line with the National Arts Month (NAM) organized by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA).
Literature is the most intellectual of the arts, for which reason it is also the least appealing as far as the public-at-large is concerned.
In the classic tales told by Scheherazade, the cities of Basrah and Baghdad are not merely the hub of commercial...
