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Category: Arts & Culture

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    Summer’s rite of passage

    Apr 27, 2012 10:35 PM

    BY HOMER TEODORO

    SUMMER vacation in the Philippines is something young boys look forward to — some of them with excitement, while others with fear and anxiety.

    circumcision

  • Categories Arts & Culture Top Stories

    Makati City Jail inmates turn trash into cash

    Apr 24, 2012 8:26 PM

    By XIANNE S. ARCANGEL

    THE disposable bedroom slippers of a five-star hotel in Manila may be going straight to the black garbage bag after being worn by guests, but they are not headed for the dumpsite just yet.

    MIGCO

  • Categories Arts & Culture Photos Top Stories

    Boy scouts, frat men named ‘Scouts for the Rivers’

    Apr 22, 2012 4:26 PM

    Text by XIANNE S. ARCANGEL, Photos by MARIO IGNACIO IV
    RESTORING the Pasig River back to life might be a daunting task, but the Sagip Ilog Pilipinas Movement (SIPM) believes young and old boy scouts and fraternity members are up for the challenge.

    Earth Day, Sagip Ilog Pilipinas Movement

  • Categories Arts & Culture Photos

    Philippine festivals in showdown at Aliwan

    Apr 22, 2012 7:52 AM

    Text, photos and video by VINCENT GO THE best dancers from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao came to celebrate cultural diversity in the heart of Manila at Aliwan 2012, a showdown of Philippine festivals, last weekend. Now on its 10th year, the Aliwan Festival features a cultural street dance competition, a parade of floats, and the […]


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    A refreshing art space in Laguna

    Apr 21, 2012 10:53 AM

    Text and photos by ELIZABETH LOLARGA

    NINEVEH Artspace, the first and only art gallery in the capital town of Santa Cruz, Laguna, and the biggest in the province, comes as a breath of fresh air for the Manila-based visitor, especially on exhibition opening day. There is none of that cocktail-party artifice where one tries valiantly to view the works while maintaining a decent conversation and balancing a small plate of finger food on one hand.

    Nineveh Artspace

  • Categories Arts & Culture Top Stories

    From ashes to life

    Apr 14, 2012 11:32 AM

    By AMIEL MARK CAGAYAN
    HOLY Week, which commemorates the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, is a sacred tradition for Christians. It takes deeper meaning in a community where majority of the population belong to the Islam faith.

    Holy Week, maguindanao, Upi

  • Categories Arts & Culture Photos Top Stories Video

    A watering hole for urban warriors

    Apr 14, 2012 9:29 AM

    Text, photos and videos by VINCENT GO
    BEING at Fred’s Revolucion is like going back to a time when the cold war was raging and revolutions were the in thing. It calls to mind a scene from the 1960s movie “M.A.S.H.” whose battle-weary soldiers guzzled up after a hectic day on the war front.

    Filipino food, Food, photojournalism, photojournalists

  • Categories Arts & Culture Top Stories

    Surviving the mob in Boracay

    Apr 13, 2012 7:27 AM

    Text and photos by CARLO FIGUEROA
    Traffic jams, air pollution from tricycle fumes, restaurants big and small packed to the brim, and the sheer number of visitors jostling for space in a cramped island were definitely not synonymous to rustic images beach life usually conjures. But such was the daily scene in Boracay over the Easter break.

    Bpracay, Caticlan, Holy Week, Kalibo, tourism, tourists

  • Categories Arts & Culture Top Stories

    A budget-friendly tour of The Walled City of Intramuros

    Apr 10, 2012 3:12 PM

    By YOLANDA L. PUNSALAN

    POCKETS of spur-of-the moment vacations on a miniscule budget, covering only jeep or bus fare and the occasional street food snacks, can be had by anyone nimble enough to enjoy the Walled City of Intramuros while imbibing history.

    Intramuros

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    Taal embroidery now a dying craft

    Apr 06, 2012 10:56 AM

    By MEI MAGSINO
    REMEMBER Fernando Amorsolo’s painting depicting an important page of our history of three women sewing the first Philippine flag? That was Marcela Agoncillo with her daughter and a friend.

    Burdang Taal

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