Pinoys party at Tattoo Expo
Text, photos and video by VINCENT GO
WHAT started out as a gathering of a few tattoo artists at a small garage in Malate district in Manila twelve years ago has grown to be the biggest tattoo exposition in the country.
Text, photos and video by VINCENT GO
WHAT started out as a gathering of a few tattoo artists at a small garage in Malate district in Manila twelve years ago has grown to be the biggest tattoo exposition in the country.
By PABLO A. TARIMAN
AURAEUS Solito’s “Busong” — which was premiered last year at the Cannes International Film Festival’s Directors Fortnight section — continued its winning streak by running away with the grand prize in the recently concluded National Geographic All Roads Film Festival in Washington D.C.
By PABLO A. TARIMAN
STAR Cinema’s “The Mistress” is making a killing in the box office and it is an indication the subject is no longer taboo in Philippine media and in the social hierarchy.
By PABLO A. TARIMAN
AS the country recalls a dark chapter in its history by marking the 40th anniversary of martial law, it is interesting to note how that event actually changed people’s lives, most of them media icons.
By PABLO A. TARIMAN
THE filmmaker associated with several award-winning films (Burlesk Queen, 1977; Asedillo 1971; Ang Alamat ni Julian Makabayan, 1979) is now based in Siniloan, Laguna where he was born 69 years ago.
By PABLO A. TARIMAN
THERE is much to appreciate in the 26th theater season of Tanghalang Pilipino.
Its production of “Walang Kukurap” written by Layeta Bucoy can pass for a contemporary version of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town.”
Text and photos by ELIZABETH LOLARGA
IF black ants are marching in a long, busy line in your cottage in Davao City, consider it a propitious sign. It means the fruits you bought, be they rambutan, mangosteen or that stinky bomb called durian, are sweet.
By PATRICK KING PASCUAL
IT was another first in the struggle to have their rightful place in society.
The recently-concluded “Queer Manila” art exhibit at the Manila Contemporary on Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati was a crash course on LGBTs, short for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender.
By PABLO A. TARIMAN
THE sad news in the music world is that pianist Van Cliburn– the first American pianist to win the First Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958 — was diagnosed with advanced bone cancer.
MANY of Nora Aunor’s past films are virtual cases of art imitating the actress’s poignant, sad, and by turns, happy life. To be sure, a few of her past films come to mind when an independent group of Italian film critics covering the 69th Venice International Film Festival gave her the Bisata d’Oro (Golden Eel) for best actress for the Brillante Mendoza film, “Thy Womb.”