In The Market (08/31/17)
Skinny cookies
MONDELEZ Philippines, Inc. focuses on a new young adult target audience with Oreo Thins, a grown-up, more sophisticated version of the sandwich cookie,...
Pet peeves Pet peeves
Sherwin A. Lao
EVERYONE has pet peeves when it comes to day to day living. My two major pet peeves include enduring people speaking loudly in movie...
Agnes Locsin: Like no other
WORDS RICARDO M. DE UNGRIA, NESTOR O. JARDIN, AND LISA MACUJA-ELIZALDE | PHOTOGRAPHY JOJO MAMANGUN
Locsin Dance Workshop (LDW), the country’s oldest dance school, celebrated its...
Aside from making great art, visual artists must be articulate
THE 14th Ateneo Art Awards has released its short list of 12 Filipino young visual artists, three of whom will be hailed winners of...
Trolling the troll
TO GET and sustain the youths’ attention, PETA’s musical production Game of Trolls, incorporates all things millennial: rap battles, an LED-light party, a love...
Who was Aurelio Tolentino and why should we care?
THE Little Theater of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) has a proper name – Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino. But few people know who...
The Leonard Bernstein project celebrates the musician with a call for memories
FOR SOME, Leonard Bernstein was the person who opened up the world of classical music for the first time. Others played in his orchestras....
Meet Argentina’s top tango stars, aged 82 and 90
BUENOS AIRES – They are in their ninth decade of life, but the rhythm of tango still thrills in the legs of Oscar and...
Art & Culture (08/30/17)
Drilon at Duemila
ROCK DRILON’s newest exhibit, Homecoming: Works from Dumangas, will open on Sept. 9 at Galleria Duemila, and run until Sept. 30. The...
Something old, something new
FROM THE late 1800s to the early 1900s, every movie in the world was silent. Very few of these movies still exist, most of...
An onstage family reunion
DUBBED THE “Elvis Presley of the Philippines,” during his heyday in the 1960s, Eduardo de Mesa Eigenmann (popularly known as Eddie Mesa) comes back...
Hitman’s Bodyguard tops lowest US box-office weekend in 3 years
HAMPERED BY a hurricane and a high-profile boxing match, weekend box-office results in North America were the slowest in nearly 16 years, allowing previous...