Archive - Arts & Culture

IF you open your Facebook account and start seeing thumbnail photos of Dragon Ball, Garfield, cartoon characters from Disney or anime as your friends' profile pictures instead of their actual portraits, do not fret. It’s the latest Internet meme that has swept the popular social networking site.

INSPIRED by the success of his first homecoming concert last August, Switzerland-based Filipino tenor Arthur Espiritu will be home before Christmas for a special engagement at the Philamlife Theater with soprano Rachelle Gerodias and the Manila Symphony Orchestra on Dec. 14.

THERE are new figures in pianist Ingrid Santamaria’s Christmas Village in her Binan. Laguna vacation house. They are no less than United States President Barack Obama with wife Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha.

THE Philippines can take pride in having three active ballet companies that keep the dance scene alive in Metro Manila throughout the year.

COMEDIENNE-SOPRANO Sylvia La Torre and distinguished baritone Andrew Fernando will share the stage with pop idol Sarah Geronimo in a rare musical event that will combine three generations of Filipino artists on Nov. 27 at 6 p.m. at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

WITH upbeat tunes like "Feels So Good" and "What a Wonderful World" played at the launch of Margarita Go-Singco Holmes' Down to 1: Depression Stories, a guest wondered aloud if the condition discussed in the book is being trivialized.

THE country’s three leading orchestras, the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO), the Manila Symphony Orchestra (MSO) and the FILharmonika--resume their concert seasons this month with assorted musical menu for music lovers of all ages

THE coming concert of violinist Joseph Esmilla with the Manila Symphony Orchestra in Cebu City on Nov. 12 is as good a time as any to reflect on the golden age of violin music in the country.

FOR Julie Lluch, one of the Philippines’ top sculptors, home truly works as proven by her and her three daughters in their first family exhibition at Alliance Francaise in Makati City.

A partially covered burnay (earthen jar) placed in a corner of the veranda catches the eye while the smell of a decaying chick inside a red plastic hang at the doorway greets visitors at the wake of Concepcion Bag-ayan-Balansi in Barangay Damayco in Peñarrubia, Abra.

HE anchors a weekly radio program, writes a newspaper column, gives regular seminars and has published 16 books on psychic phenomena. He is known as the paranormal researcher, scientific psychic, fortune teller, exorcist and the intuition professo

AS a child growing up in Marikina, Sinag de Leon thrived in an environment strewn with samples of Philipine folk arts and crafts, her parents being avid aficionados and lecturers on the subject.