TEXTILES carry our dreams and aspirations within them. When we use these textiles: to cover our furniture, or else our bodies, we seek to camouflage the baser aspects of life and seek to be seen with the added value that the textiles project.

A FILM about a T’boli dancer who experiences a sudden turn of events in her pursuit of a good life for her family, bagged first prize in the Short Feature category and Best Regional Entry at the 30^th Gawad CCP Para sa Alternatibong Pelikula at Video awards night held on Aug. 6 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP).

IF I REMEMBER right, I saw Mario O’Hara’s Bulaklak sa City Jail (Flowers of the City Jail) on its opening run back in 1984 and thrilled to the story of Angela Aguilar (Nora Aunor), a hapless woman jailed for “frustrated murder.” Based on Lualhati Bautista’s novel of the same name, sequences stayed in memory — Angela’s first night reception (where her cellmates practically raped her); the attempted escape through an old mansion’s garden statuary, her pursuit by police through Manila Zoo. I remember the lurid red of the nightclub where Angela sings, the bleak glow of cellblock lights, the deep shadows of the zoo.

LOS ANGELES — What the f---? The F-word, once seen as the most shocking expletive in the English language, has become commonplace in pop...

THE PHILIPPINE Guild of Watercolorists, Inc. (PGW), will be opening its annual exhibit — which is also its first virtual exhibit — on Jan. 9.

WILLIE Revillame, host of TV’s game show Wowowin (the latest of many hosting gigs), is no stranger to Shopee, hosting its “Tutok to Win” segment on Wowowin. So it comes as no surprise that he is the platform’s newest ambassador.

ART DECO arrived in the early 1910s and emerged as the premier decorative style of the world in the period between the two World Wars. It took over from the asymmetrical fluidity of the Art Nouveau movement, perhaps as a response to the noisier world that awaited it; the world that Art Nouveau created having been charred by the unprecedented horrors of the First World War.

ONE of two recent films which were slapped with an X rating by the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) — which prevents a film from being shown in movie theaters — has received a reprieve.

RIO DE JANEIRO — The Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo announced on Friday that they are postponing colorful Carnival parades to the end of April, due to an increase in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases as Omicron spreads through the country.

NEW YORK — A prosecutor on Wednesday told jurors in Harvey Weinstein’s Manhattan retrial that the evidence clearly showed the former movie mogul raped...

CONSUMERS tend to think of wine as a product of culture and authenticity. Because of this, they see it as distinct from other manufactured...

Crows Explode THE THIRD FILM in a series based on Hiroshi Takahashi’s Crows manga series from the 1990s, Crows Explodes begins one month after the...