Archive - Arts & Culture

  By PABLO A. TARIMAN TRAILED by TV cameras, Vice Ganda arrives in the presscon venue in casual elegant black, hugging a bouquet with an entourage that includes Maricel Soriano who plays his mother in his fifth movie team-up with director Wenn V. Deramas. The movie, “ Girl, Boy, Bakla, Tomboy”  is  Star Cinema’s  entry

  Text and photos by PATRICK KING PASCUAL JUST as loud as the colors of the banners they waved, were their impassioned chants of  “Walang masama, walang masama, walang masama  sa pagiging bakla!(There is nothing wrong with being gay!)” The 2013 Metro Manila Pride Celebration, held in Malate last December 7, attended by about a

  By JOSEPH CORTES WHEN Lisa Macuja-Elizalde dances this Sunday, December 8, the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy in Ballet Manila’s production of “The Nutcracker,” she will have formally retired all her major dance roles. It took her three years to say goodbye to the roles of Odette and Odile in “Swan Lake,” Juliet,

By RIZZA MARIE S. EDU IT was a night in September 2005, and Nikki Jurado was only 13. After placing her teddy bear under her blanket and stealing money from her yaya, she grabbed a cab from her house in Cainta to 70’s Bistro in Quezon City because she heard Urbandub was going to be

  By ELIZABETH LOLARGA IT is anything but petite. But that is how Petite Messe Solennelle by Gioachino Rossini, pillar of the bel canto opera era and composer of the opera The Barber of Seville, is officially described. The mass, the Christmas offering on Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. at the Ayala Museum on Makati

  By PATRICK KING PASCUAL QUEZON City  as  the  gay capital just like San Francisco and Amsterdam? Why not, if what Quezon City Vice Mayor Joy Belmonte wants would be achieved. “We want Quezon City to champion when it comes to practicing the rights of the LGBTs,” Belmonte said during  a summit for the LGBTs

  By ELLEN TORDESILLAS TENOR Arthur Espiritu and his wife, Christina, are  in Llorente, Eastern Samar to distribute the truckload of goods they have gathered from friends to the victims of typhoon Yolanda. Why Lorente? Llorente is one of the municipalities badly hit by Yolanda but has not been reported as prominently as Tacloban.  Christina

  By PABLO A. TARIMAN “IN times like this, we should all be united. The President should lead and we all should follow. But sadly, politics is rearing its ugly picture even in relief operations.” This was Sen. JV Ejercito’s remark  during the  announcement  of   “Aftershock: A Night of Music and Giving,” a fund-raising concert

  Text and photos by ELIZABETH LOLARGA BAGUIO CITY–The subject of rice, the staple food of every Filipino born and raised in this country, could not have come at a better time after super typhoon Yolanda destroyed thousands of human lives and vast agricultural fields in the Visayas. At the Good News Kapihan at 1896

By KATHLEEN TARA OCHOA                                                        IT is the 74th annual Hunger Games. At District 12, there stands Effie Trinket with her long pink eyelashes as she picks the tributes. But in a sea of people in white, a voice was heard saying, “I volunteer as tribute!” It was Katniss Everdeen, a girl in a blue dress,

By MARCELLA LICUANAN THE setting is typical of the impoverished urban population– the plywood and planks nailed together for make-shift houses, worn-out clothes hanging on rusty wires, and the dirty estero cutting the stage in half. Seeing the setting, one gets the idea that it’s would not be the usual musical with dazzling dazzling dance

  By PABLO A. TARIMAN LIKE everyone in that late afternoon Sunday presscon, beauty queen turned movie star Alice Dixson is aghast over the fate of the typhoon victims who she said don’t deserve that fate. She is no stranger to natural calamities in the country. She was around during the big quake that leveled

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