South Pacific: half theater, half concert
By Jasmine Agnes T. Cruz
Theater/Concert
South Pacific in Concert
Sept. 12 and 19, 8 p.m.
Newport Performing Arts Theatre,
Resorts World Manila, Pasay City
IN THE PHILIPPINES, when someone...
Snow White and the Evil Escalante
By Jasmine Agnes T. Cruz
Theater
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Presented by Repertory Philippines’
Theater for Young Audiences
Ongoing until Dec. 10
Onstage Theater in Greenbelt 1, Makati...
Liver cancer must be dealt with
Medicine Cabinet
By Reiner W. Gloor
THE number of Filipinos dying due to liver cancer may double in the coming years from the present average figure...
Rate of global forest loss halved: UN report
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA -- The rate at which the world is losing its forests has halved, but an area of woodland the size of...
Native tribe fights to save Boreal forest in Quebec
“If my grandfather knew,” says the deputy leader of the Cree tribe, one of 11 indigenous ethnic groups present in Quebec.
The flyover of the...
A staycation in Makati
By Zsarlene B. Chua
CITY GARDEN GRAND -- a barely year-old four-star hotel which stands across its three-star counterpart -- boasts of 311 rooms featuring...
Korea: ready for travelers
By Zsarlene B. Chua
“KOREA TOURISM is back to normal,” was the first line in the statement released by the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) during...
Exercise as medicine
By Zsarlene B. Chua
EXERCISE is Medicine (EIM) is a global health initiative spearheaded by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) in 2007 aiming...
The parallel worlds of Ramon Magsaysay awardees
By Pola Esguerra del Monte
This story began with death — the death, 58 years ago, of the President whom the Filipino people fondly called...
Gawad Plaridel for Ricky Lee
By Susan Claire Agbayani
Ricardo Lee, the Philippines’ most prominent screenwriter and one of most influential figures in the film industry, was awarded the 2015...
PETA looks back (and forward)
By Jasmine Agnes T. Cruz
THE Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA), in its long history, has found a new, revamped identity in the limelight because...
Negros Oriental as water capital
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
HOME to 79 natural lakes and 451 rivers, and being an archipelago, thus surrounded by water, the Philippines faces...