Archive - Arts & Culture Year all all 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 Items per page 12 12 18 24 30 Arts & Culture The MMC model: Solutions for a post-COVID future Dr. Saturnino Javier, medical director of the Makati Medical Center (MMC), is not Nostradamus. He cannot predict when the pandemic will taper off and finally end. But this he is sure of: “We need to move forward.” By Elizabeth Lolarga | Jun 29, 2021 | -minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture Filipino youth orchestra strikes gold anew in Vienna music fest The winning streak of the Manila Symphony Junior Orchestra (MSJO) continued after it struck gold in the youth orchestra category B of the Vienna-based World Youth Festival which transpired June 12-26, 2021. By Pablo A. Tariman | Jun 28, 2021 | -minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture The stage lights are on again Things are looking up in the concert world. By Pablo A. Tariman | Jun 27, 2021 | -minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture Gen Z according to Erik Matti Erik Matti’s A Girl & A Guy has many things going for it. By Pablo A. Tariman | Jun 24, 2021 | -minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture A bookshop thrives up in the clouds In a virtual tour of Mt Cloud Bookshop on Yangco Road, Baguio City, co-owner Feliz Lim Perez showed and proved how such a business can conquer the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic that kept the place shut for the first three months of the lockdown. By Elizabeth Lolarga Photos courtesy of Feliz Lim Perez and National Book Development Board | Jun 19, 2021 | -minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture Tales of cloud rats, sky islands, and disappearing forests We associate rats with filth and sewers and the carrier of leptospirosis in the country. And yet, cloud rats are fluffy and cuddly animals, and yes, they are rodents. By R.C.Ladrido | Jun 19, 2021 | -minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture Alice Sun Cua ferries Spanish novel to Hiligaynon Alice Sun Cua, a perennial Manila Critics’ Circle awardee, is that rare creature. She is a physician (obstetrics-gynecology is her specialty at San Juan de Dios Hospital) by day and a literary writer and now a translator during her free hours. The Santo Niño de Cebu Publishing House recently launched its first title, and the good doctor was their buena mano. It published her translation of contemporary Spanish novelist Carmen Laforet’s novel Nada in Hiligaynon. By Elizabeth Lolarga | Jun 14, 2021 | -minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture The return of good online recital The Independence Day offering of Manila Pianos Artist Series featuring soprano Jasmin Salvo and pianist Gabriel Paguirigan last June 12 is a breath of fresh air in the area of virtual concerts. By Pablo A. Tariman | Jun 13, 2021 | -minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture Kammerchor Manila choir bags grand prix in international choral contest A Philippine choir does it again! By Pablo A. Tariman | Jun 7, 2021 | -minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture Taiwan shows how music can continue during pandemic It must be a blessing living in Taiwan in time of the pandemic. By Pablo A. Tariman | Jun 6, 2021 | -minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture Mil Gracias, Mexico in Our Food It is difficult to imagine our food today without tomatoes, peanuts, chili peppers, or cacao. It means no afritada, turrones de mani, Bicol Express, sinamak, sili sigang, or even champorado, as we know it. By R. C. Ladrido | Jun 5, 2021 | -minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture For Filipino musicians, the music didn’t stop during pandemic Into the 15th month of the lockdown that closed performing arts venues beginning of March 2020, Filipino musicians reflect on how the pandemic affected them not just as musicians but as ordinary human being. By Pablo A. Tariman | Jun 2, 2021 | -minute read KEEP READING Posts pagination Newer posts 1 … 23 24 25 26 27 … 109 Older posts