Archive - Arts & Culture

 By PABLO A. TARIMAN  THINGS Bicol are once again in the news because its life and lore are once again recalled in Tanghalang Pilipino’s  musical epic “Ibalong”  opening February 8 until March 3 with a formidable cast that include Jenine Desiderio of Miss Saigon fame. The colorful Ibalong epic managed to survive by oral tradition

  By ELIZABETH LOLARGA  FOR a much-in-demand tenor like Arthur Espiritu who has performed at Teatro alla Scala, Piccolo Teatro di Milano, both in Italy, and with Opera Fuoco in Paris, he would like to  rediscover his country of origin. Espiritu, who grew up in Tanay, Rizal,  migrated with his family to the United States

By KARMELA GABRIELLE TORDECILLA GOOGLE Marlon Barnuevo and you will come across a music video uploaded on YouTube in 2007. The song is called “Aking Hiling” by six-piece local band 3rd Avenue. Pause the video at 0:57. That’s him playing the keyboard. Google Marlon Barnuevo and you will surely come across a video called “Tourette Syndrome

 By NORMAN SISON NO, it’s not about the caffeine. Question: would you wait in line for 30 minutes and pay seven dollars for a cup of coffee? Most people will not, but there are who will. There are coffee drinkers, coffee lovers and coffee aficionados. For most people, it’s a drink. For others, it’s a

By PABLO A. TARIMAN IT is still a good decade for Filipino tenors some of whom still find time to sing in their home country even as they are active on the global opera stage. Overseas-based tenor Noel Velasco is in town for an outreach concert in Laoag City on January 26 and at the

By JOSEPH CORTES THERE is a sense of anticipation surrounding the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra’s concert on Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. The show, which celebrates the 40th anniversary of the country’s national orchestra, features a violin concerto specially commissioned to mark the occasion. In a country where the appreciation of classical music is in the minority,

   By PATRICK KING PASCUAL ARTS, music, cuisine and wine will spice up the celebration of Australia’s National Day in Manila this week. “There’s a lot going on between our two countries. The Australian Embassy in the Philippines is the 8th biggest embassy of Australia has anywhere. This is a substantial relationship between the Philippines

By WINNIE VELASQUEZ FOR more than forty years now, Betsy Westendorp has rendered huge canvases of lush blooms, exotic flora painted in situ in the vibrant hues of the seasons – nature in full splendour but also at its most harsh. She has done portraits of royalty, presidents, captains of industry – all larger than

By ELIZABETH  LOLARGA Photos by SPYKE PAT-OGAN HOW often does a movie come along that reflects the heart of Baguio that is invisible to the naked eye? Rarely, if not at all. And then comes Martin Masadao’s Anac ti Pating (an Iluko phrase roughly translated as “child of a shark”), written and directed by him

  Text and photos by ELIZABETH LOLARGA NOW here’s a lawyer who puts a shine on that litigious profession: Kay Malilong Isberto. By continuing to make trees and forests the subjects of her paintings (she recently held a solo show at San Beda Museum in Alabang Hills, Muntinlupa City), Isberto is able to promote a

Text and photos by ELIZABETH LOLARGA THE exhibition of mono-print portraits of 101 grandmothers still up at the BenCab Museum Print Gallery, in its deceptive simplicity, cries, “Women power, women rule!” Conceptualized by Thirteen Artists awardee Joey Vendiola Cobcobo in 2009, he told himself that he wanted a visual arts project that was important, had

Text and photos by ELIZABETH LOLARGA WHO was the woman who said that if she had realized earlier that grandmotherhood would bring her such unadulterated joy, she would’ve skipped marriage and motherhood altogether and gone ahead with being a lola first? Yay Padua-Olmedo, retired vice president of one of the Philippines’ biggest conglomerates, a teacher