Hotdog Reunion:The Repeat
MUSICIAN and advertising executive Dennis Garcia said there are five simple reasons why you should be at Dusit Thani on July 26, Tuesday, 8 p.m.:
One, you will enjoy one and a half hours of fond memories
MUSICIAN and advertising executive Dennis Garcia said there are five simple reasons why you should be at Dusit Thani on July 26, Tuesday, 8 p.m.:
One, you will enjoy one and a half hours of fond memories
“HERE comes the rain again, falling on my head like a memory…”
This 80’s song by Eurythmix could very well be the anthem of the recent Mudpack Festival at Mambukal Resort in Murcia, Negros Occidental. “There must be rain,” said festival director Rudy Reveche, “for mud comes with the rain. That’s why the festival is scheduled in June, when the rains come.”
TIME was when Ilonggos looked down on Antiqueños because in contrast to Iloilo and Negros, Antique is not as materially blessed. Not anymore.
Antique has blazed trails in the most unexpected arena.
“DON’T just call your print a print. Call it by its specific name—a lithograph, a computer-generated serigraph, a woodcut.”
This is the guiding principle of printmaker Lenore Raquel Santos Lim, who had a retrospective exhibition, “Full Circle,” at the Cultural Center of the Philippines Main Gallery recently.
FILIPINOS are no strangers to the music of Andrew Lloyd Weber.
“Don’t cry for me Argentina”, “Memory”, “I don’t know how to love him” are standard numbers in musical extravaganzas in the country.
MARK Twain once said: “Truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction, after all, has to make sense.”
But what happens when fiction, sensible it may be, is cloaked as truth in order to deceive? How does one evaluate truth—by reason or by faith? Which one should prevail?
THE recent emergence of Philippine Pop or P-Pop phenomenon, wherein local artists are packaged very similarly to famous Korean Pop groups in terms of fashion and music style, might have been the country’s attempt to lure listeners back to Pinoy music.
THERE’S more to life in Payatas than scavenging.
This is shown by a group of women living beside the Quezon City dumpsite who have learned new skills that provided them a more dignified alternative source of income.
BARITONE Andrew Fernando has tackled another Russian role with flying colors in Shostakovich’s lone operetta, “Moscow, Cherry Town,” mounted recently by the Long Beach Opera (LBO) in California.
YOUNG independent comics creators are struggling to help revive the local comics industry– once an indelible part of Philippine culture — by crafting something uniquely Filipino in the digital world.