Archive - Arts & Culture

By GLENN PIERRE C. SAMSON STANDING 6 foot 4 inches, the towering Paolo Bustamante is easy to spot, especially when he’s pointing his camera at olden buildings with his raised arms. Although he’s just trying to photograph quaint architectures—as he always does—people sometimes try to stop him. “I once tried to shoot a 1930s building

By REGINA T. AQUINO DARRYL Shy, the 44-year-old contender for the “The Voice of the Philippines,” never stood out for possessing a vocal range that can hit heavens-high notes.  But on the vast, grandiose stage of Resorts World Manila, he made a mark with his folk, soulful tone and exceptional guitar skills (and yes, with his

Text and photos by ELIZABETH LOLARGA VISUAL artist Imelda Cajipe Endaya, who forwards the feminist perspective in her art, has a solo exhibition at the St. Scholastica’s Museum appropriately called “Pusong Wagas.” St. Scholastica’s College (SSC) is home to the Institute of Women’s Studies (IWS) that broke ground 25 year ago in putting feminism in

By MA. THERESA ANGELINA QUINTANA-TABADA Gregory Fernandez worked for 10 years with a community paper in Cebu City. By the time he led its art department in 2009, the newspaper’s design team “was on its way toward innovation.” Fernandez also acted in pocket theater plays and independent film productions that had a small but loyal

  By PABLO A. TARIMAN ACTING in theater isn’t the calling where practitioners can earn good money. But how come many are still drawn to it and loving every minute of it even with the sad truth that it can’t pay most of their bills? Two generation of actors appear in the musical, “The Producers”

  By PABLO A. TARIMAN ON the night Typhoon Yolanda is expected to hit the country, sexy star Cristine Reyes obliges with a short chat with media persons most of whom are curious about her recently ended love affair with actor Derek Ramsey. She is aware of the typhoon signals and for the record, she

  By ELIZABETH LOLARGA Photos courtesy of the Jazmines Family Although Alan Jazmines, to go by his last job description, is a peace warrior (National Democratic Front of the Philippines peace consultant), he continues to be on indefinite “stay-cation”. It’s the term for people who remain home during long holidays. Except that he has stayed,

  By PABLO A. TARIMAN ON a humid evening with a hint of rain,  actors Maja Salvador, Paulo Avelino and Jake Cuenca show up in a forum meant to dissect relationships and what makes them complicated. Avelino starts by saying that in any relationship, you have to invest time and lots of love to make

    By MELISSA LUZ LOPEZ INSTEAD of feasting on the usual lechon – known to be the staple of a Filipino fiesta, health advocates urged people to shift to a tastier and more nutritious alternative: an organic brown rice meal. This they did with the help of some celebrities, who gave a sampling of

Video by FREDERIC LORENZO, I-Watch UPI, Maguindanao—When results of the barangay elections are announced, it won’t only be the top candidates who will be “winners” in some villages here.

By MELISSA LUZ LOPEZ LIGAYA Patañaga, 81, was the first voter to experience the relative comfort of voting at the accessible polling place (APP) at SM Manila for the barangay elections. She was all-praises for the voting center, which was very convenient for her compared to the Araullo High School, where she always had to

  By PABLO A. TARIMAN LIKE it or not, bel canto (the art of beautiful singing) is the most-quoted word in  the opera circle. Teachers brandish it as though it were a vocal talisman and some students think it is the key to instant vocal stardom. If you are active in the conservatory circuit, you

By JONATHAN DE SANTOS  AS THE country’s 54 million or so voters trooped to their polling precincts to vote for barangay leaders, some 62,500 from the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao had the chance to do so as literates. That number represents graduates of a three-year literacy program by non-government organization Magbassa Kita Foundation Inc.

By POP M. SALAHOG, I-Watch DATU ODIN SINSUAT, Maguindanao—All the barangay candidates in this town can already claim victory even before village elections take place nationwide on Monday.

By ARTHA KIRA PAREDES PARANG, Maguindanao—Like a priest sending his flock off to spread the word of peaceful elections, the police chief of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) on Saturday admonished policemen and women serving in Monday's barangay elections to follow the Blessed Virgin Mary’s example of making the right decision.

By COOPER RESABAL JR. TORIL, Maribojoc – On the eve of their fiesta, residents of this scenic barangay buried on Thursday  a mother and a teenage girl who were casualties in a landslide triggered by the 7.2-magnitude earthquake that hit the island province of Bohol early morning on October 15. Ten days after the tremor that

Text and photos by ELIZABETH LOLARGA WHAT kind of audience tenor Arthur Espiritu sings for doesn’t even enter his mind anymore. “You only need one passionate person,” he said. “All it takes is exposure, one moment.” Pianist Najib Ismail agreed: “Whether you have an audience of two thousand or of one, if you connect, you’re

  By PABLO A. TARIMAN IN his latest film, “Mana”  premiered  at the  MOA recently, director Gabby Fernandez talks of dealing with two lifetimes – his own and that of his parents. Currently  the chairman of the Production Design Department at the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, Fernandez was born in Manila descending from