Archive - Arts & Culture

By AMIEL MARK CAGAYAN
HOLY Week, which commemorates the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, is a sacred tradition for Christians. It takes deeper meaning in a community where majority of the population belong to the Islam faith.

Text, photos and videos by VINCENT GO
BEING at Fred's Revolucion is like going back to a time when the cold war was raging and revolutions were the in thing. It calls to mind a scene from the 1960s movie “M.A.S.H.” whose battle-weary soldiers guzzled up after a hectic day on the war front.

Text and photos by CARLO FIGUEROA
Traffic jams, air pollution from tricycle fumes, restaurants big and small packed to the brim, and the sheer number of visitors jostling for space in a cramped island were definitely not synonymous to rustic images beach life usually conjures. But such was the daily scene in Boracay over the Easter break.

By YOLANDA L. PUNSALAN
POCKETS of spur-of-the moment vacations on a miniscule budget, covering only jeep or bus fare and the occasional street food snacks, can be had by anyone nimble enough to enjoy the Walled City of Intramuros while imbibing history.

By MEI MAGSINO
REMEMBER Fernando Amorsolo’s painting depicting an important page of our history of three women sewing the first Philippine flag? That was Marcela Agoncillo with her daughter and a friend.

By ELIZABETH LOLARGA
IT is the island fortress where the blood of Filipino, American and Japanese soldiers was spilled, all of them convinced it was for a cause bigger than them.

By HAZEL P. VILLA
ILOILO CITY – The misery of typhoon victims has encouraged a Filipino development worker to share a stove innovation that can be built in less than two hours with minimal skills and tools and uses twigs and branches which the affected families can collect from debris.

By PATRICK KING PASCUAL
LESBIAN, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons with disabilities (LGBT PWDs) experience double discrimination in their daily life.

By ELIZABETH LOLARGA
LISTENING to a mishmash of operatic arias and Broadway hits, as though an iPod shuffle was being executed as a "sensurround" experience, is a lovely way to spend an evening.

By ELIZABETH LOLARGA
THE brief transcendent experience of witnessing "The Dying Swan," featuring ballerina Lisa Macuja, cellist Wilfredo Pasamba, especially flown in for this number, and pianist Cecile Licad--all three marking a historic first in the Philippines with live music played to this dance interpretation of Saint-Saens piece from Le Carnaval des Animaux--nearly redeemed Saturday's traffic nightmare.

By ELIZABETH LOLARGA
WHEN Cecile Licad blows into town for concert engagements, it is not egoism on her part when she asks for a piano that will enable her to give her best on concert night.

By PATRICK KING PASCUAL
CAROL (not her real name), a long-time dialysis patient at the Makati Medical Center (MMC), depends on a wheelchair for mobility.