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The lights shine on Anilao for this year’s Banaag Festival

By Bryle B. Suralta The Banaag Festival, much like the municipality of Anilao itself, is relatively young, but this tradition celebrates a rather older heritage, paying homage to its cultural roots. For Anilao, a fourth-class municipality in the province of Iloilo with a population of between 20,000 to 30,000 citizens,…

The true story behind Halloween

Before you put on your scariest or funniest Halloween costume this year to attend the most hot-as-hell, so to speak, Halloween parties in town, let’s backtrack a little bit and get to know how and why a night that trains a spotlight on ghosts and other otherworldly characters become part of…

Welcome to the new Boracay!

“Welcome back to Boracay! Or would it be better to say, Welcome back, Boracay,” these were the first words of Tourism Secretary Berna Romulo-Puyat as she graced the reopening of the well-loved white sand paradise, together with other Cabinet secretaries and local officials. In her speech, she proudly shared that during the…

Pauline Suaco-Juan joins CITEM and Manila FAME with her storyteller’s hat on

The veteran journalist-turned-executive director underscores the importance of going digital and broadening mindsets if the country is to reach out to more international buyers and compete with the best in the world. By Alex Y. Vergara As usual, all eyes are again focused on tomorrow’s Manila FAME (Oct. 19 to…

First-ever Nam June Paik exhibit opens in Makati on October 22

By Bryle B. Suralta To fellow artists, art critics and collectors, Nam June Paik is known as “the father of video art,” but to his nephew, Ken Hakuta, who now represents the Nam June Paik estate, he was the “crazy uncle.” “One day, when he came from Germany to our…

Family could bring out the best and the worst in you

You get to choose your friends, but you don’t get to choose your family. How often have we heard this universal truism before? For better or for worse, you have to take everything that comes with this random set of people you are born into. Then again, this mindset has…

PSID graduating students revive remnants of old Manila through adaptive reuse

By Bryle B. Suralta Celebrating its 51st year, the Philippine School of Interior Design (PSID) introduces "JUXTAPOSE: Espasyo at Panahon," an "inventive" graduation exhibit that focuses on reviving historic structures with modernized design elements. The exhibit, which was created by the graduating batch of 2018, explores adaptive reuse of old…

Review: Falling in love with Asia’s crazy One Percent

As Princess Intan, the Philippines’ “most famous woman,” in writer Kevin Kwan’s words, more than acquits herself. For sure, there wasn’t much the yellow-, Michael Cinco-clad Kris Aquino could chew on, given that it was a cameo role. But you could see director Jon M. Chu’s camera lingering on Kris…

Eto Na! Musikal nAPO!: the more things change, the more they stay the same

The trio featuring Danny Javier, Jim Paredes and Boboy Garrovillo have been asked by various groups over the years to have their songs featured in a musical, but it was only until 9Works made an offer earlier this year that the three members of the APO Hiking Society finally said…

Ang “Huling El Bimbo” is a traitor worth knowing

By JOSE PAOLO S. DELA CRUZ In recent years, the local theater scene seems to have found its voice in contemporary music, what with the prevalence of jukebox musicals such as Sa Wakas (which featured the songs of Sugarfree) and Rak of Aegis. Naturally, it was only a matter…