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The volcanic rumblings could be heard as far as Daraga and Ligao City making residents nervous even as dogs howled in the dead of night.

While the volcano showed signs of re-awakening weeks earlier with intermittent quakes and harmless active lava flow, Albayanos did not expect a spectacular show Monday noon.

Pianist Cecile Licad returned to the Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall) Thursday night (January 18) with a predominantly New York audience giving her a rousing standing ovation.

For three years in a row already, painter-art educator-cancer survivor Yasmin Almonte has been holding solo exhibits in her birth month of January. It is her way of “expressing my gratitude for being here, being alive,” she said.

Tenor Otoniel Gonzaga, the first and the last Filipino tenor to sing Verdi’s Otello, has died in a Vienna Hospital January 14.

Whenever I tell people that I’m from Antique, the next question I usually get is “Where is that?”

“A Night of Love,” the concert of operatic solos and duets set on Feb. 10 at 7 p.m. at Ayala Museum, Makati City, may be about consuming love and sometimes tragic passion. It is a prelude to Valentine as well as a mentor’s acknowledgement of the talents of his two students.

He was Julio Madiaga in the musical version of the Lino Brocka classic, Maynila Sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag; he was Scrooge’s nephew in A Christmas Carol and now he plays a promising tenor in Ken Ludwig’s A Comedy of Tenors mounted by Repertory Philippines.

The songs in Ang Larawan -- beautifully directed and recreated by Loi Arcenas -- are hardly hummable after you have watched it.