Skip to the content
VERA Files banner logoVERA Files
  • Fact Check
    • Fact Check Filipino
  • Latest
    • Podcast
    • News
    • Commentary
    • Arts & Culture
  • Special Coverage
    • Marcos Files
    • PHL Vote 2022
    • Seeing through the Smoke
      • How the tobacco industry interferes in policy making
    • The Chit Estella Road Safety Page
    • On The Record, where VERA Files was seen and heard
    • COVID-19 Watch
    • Health
    • Earth Files
    • PWD Files
      • PWD Vote
    • Trafficking Casewatch
    • SONA 2020 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2019 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2018 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2017 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2016 Promise Tracker
    • ARMM Watch
    • PHL Vote 2019
    • PHL Vote 2016
    • ASEAN at 50
  • Learning Corner
  • Fact Check
    • Fact Check Filipino
  • Latest
    • Podcast
    • News
    • Commentary
    • Arts & Culture
  • Special Coverage
    • Marcos Files
    • PHL Vote 2022
    • Seeing through the Smoke
      • How the tobacco industry interferes in policy making
    • The Chit Estella Road Safety Page
    • On The Record, where VERA Files was seen and heard
    • COVID-19 Watch
    • Health
    • Earth Files
    • PWD Files
      • PWD Vote
    • Trafficking Casewatch
    • SONA 2020 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2019 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2018 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2017 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2016 Promise Tracker
    • ARMM Watch
    • PHL Vote 2019
    • PHL Vote 2016
    • ASEAN at 50
  • Learning Corner
  • fb
  • tw
  • instagram
  • linkedin
  • yt

Category: Arts & Culture

  • Categories Arts & Culture

    History, not gossip: Our love affair with ‘Tinapai’

    By R.C.Ladrido  |  Aug 01, 2022 11:00 AM

    We have been eating tinapay for a long time.

    pandesal, tinapay

  • Categories Arts & Culture News

    The shrinking pandesal

    By R.C.Ladrido  |  Aug 01, 2022 10:40 AM

    Shrinkflation comes inevitably amidst the rising prices of almost everything, including pandesal

    pandesal, tinapay

  • Categories Arts & Culture News

    The horrors of Martial Law as musical

    By Pablo A. Tariman  |  Aug 01, 2022 6:16 AM

    When Katips (short for Katipunan) was first screened in November last year, nobody knew the Marcoses were poised for a dramatic comeback.

    1972 Martial Law, Ferdinand Marcos Sr., Katips, Vince Tañada

  • Categories Arts & Culture

    Singing in time of the virus

    By Pablo A. Tariman  |  Jul 31, 2022 2:27 PM

    The last three months were constant, if, extreme, challenges for the country’s foremost tenor.

    Arthur Espiritu

  • Categories Arts & Culture

    Having survived the pandemic, classical music continues to flourish

    By Pablo A. Tariman  |  Jul 23, 2022 3:40 PM

    Richard Sy-Facunda – the man behind the highly patronized Manila Pianos Artist Series — fell in love with classical music when he found himself listening to vinyl records given by […]

    Mark Joshua Fabic Morales, Richard Sy-Facunda

  • Categories Arts & Culture

    The evolution of Filipino violinists through the years

    By Pablo A. Tariman  |  Jul 20, 2022 9:15 AM

    When 18-year old Jeanne Marquez performs in Iloilo, Nueva Ecija and Manila this month and later guesting with the Filipino American Symphony Orchestra at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA, she will surely bring back cherished memories of distinguished violinists in the country.


  • Categories Arts & Culture News

     Amidst the pandemic, a Filipino musical is born

    By Pablo A. Tariman  |  Jul 18, 2022 12:33 PM

    Remember the 1975 Bienvenido Noriega, Jr. play, Bayan Bayanan?
    The play is being revived as a musical with a new title, Bayan Bayanan: Letters from Home.

    Anton Juan, Bayan Bayanan, Rafael Benitez

  • Tawag ng Tanghalan
    Categories Arts & Culture

    100 Years: Broadcasting in Our Everyday Lives

    By R.C. Ladrido. All images courtesy of DZUP.  |  Jul 17, 2022 10:25 PM

    Celebrating 100 years of broadcasting, Wika, Awit, Radyo, at Pananakop is a 30-minute documentary on broadcasting in the Philippines. It was launched through DZUP, the University of the Philippines’ radio station last June 29. (See DZUP’s FB page).

    100 years, broadcasting, Philippine broadcasting

  • Categories Arts & Culture

      A voice mentor in Mindanao

    By Pablo A. Tariman  |  Jul 16, 2022 3:37 PM

    The musical journey of baritone Marvin Gayramon has taken him far.

    Marvin Gayramon

  • Categories Arts & Culture

     A whiff of Spain in evening of classical guitar July 20

    By Pablo A. Tariman  |  Jul 11, 2022 5:34 PM

    The musical landscape of Spain will be revisited when two classical guitarists mount a concert called Spanish Serenade (Serenata Espanola)  at the Yuchengco Museum, Wednesday July 20  at 6 p..m. […]

    Adrik Cristobal, Monching Carpio

Posts navigation

← Newer Posts1 2 … 108 Older Posts →

Network Memberships

VERA Files IFCN Badge
VERA Files Meta Third-Party Fact Checking Badge
GIJN Member
  • About
  • Privacy Policy

Be relevant. Subscribe to the VERA Files newsletter.

* indicates required


  • fb
  • tw
  • instagram
  • linkedin
  • yt
  • Viber

© 2022 VERA Files

Privacy Policy

  • Share on Facebook
  • Share on Twitter
  • Share on Reddit
  • Save to your Google bookmark
  • Save to Pocket