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Your Weekend Guide (November 18, 2016)

PERFORMANCES

MusicArtes, Inc.’s The Medium will have its last show on Nov. 18 at 8:30 p.m. at the Mirror Theater Studio, 5th Flr. SJG Centre, 8463 Kalayaan Ave. cor. Don Pedro St., Poblacion, Makati City. For tickets, visit ticketworld.com.ph or call 891-9999.

PETA presents The Tempest Reimagined, a story that injects supertyphoon Yolanda’s real-life drama into Shakespeare’s play. There are performances on Wednesdays to Sundays until Dec. 4, at 10 a.m., 3 p.m., and 8 p.m., at the PETA Theater Center, No. 5 Eymard Drive, New Manila, Quezon City. For tickets and reservations, visit ticketworld.com.ph or call 891-9999.

Tatlong Linggong Pag-Ibig, a festival of plays about love by Dalanghita Productions, runs until Nov. 27 at the Power Mac Center Spotlight-Level 2, Circuit Lane, Circuit Makati, A.P. Reyes Ave., Makati City. For tickets, visit ticketworld.com.ph or call 891-9999.

The musical Annie has weekend performances until Dec. 4 at the Newport Performing Arts Theater, Resorts World Manila, Pasay City. This is the story of the Depression Era’s Little Orphan Annie who rescues and is rescued by millionaire Daddy Warbucks. For tickets, visit ticketworld.com.ph or call 891-9999.

Repertory Philippines closes its 2016 season with the musical A Little Princess, which opens on Nov. 18, 6:30 p.m., with performances until Dec. 18 at the OnStage Theater, Greenbelt 1, Makati City. For details, call Rep at 843-3570 or visit www.repertoryphilippines.ph/.

Repertory Philippines presents Hansel and Gretel until Dec. 15 at the OnStage Theater, Greenbelt 1, Makati City. For details, call 843-3570 or TicketWorld at 891-9999, or visit www.repertoryphilippines.ph.

EVENTS

Part 3 of the Libro @ Latagan sa Cubao X, a community mega-garage sale and mini-bazaar, will be held on Nov. 19, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. at entrance of Cubao X in Quezon City. There will be sellers with wares ranging from books and toys to clothes and footwear, and the majority of the items will be secondhand. Organizers advised to bring umbrellas because it will be a rain-or-shine event.

EnCOUNTERS: A Forum on Countermapping Practices in the Philippines will be held on Nov. 19, 1 p.m.-4 p.m. Pre-registration is required as slots are limited. To register, e-mail lmmpasig@gmail.com or call 631-2417. Follow the link to access the online registration form: http://bit.ly/LMLEnCOUNTERS.

Komikon 2016 will be held on Nov. 19 and 20, at the Bayanihan Center, Unilab Compound, Pasig City. Registration is ongoing for comic creators/exhibitors/sponsors, and Indie Komiks tiangge, media. For more information, visit Komikon 2016 on Facebook.

Buy books for as low as P5 at the The Anvil Publishing Grand Christmas Sale, ongoing until Dec. 10, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., at No. 25 Brixton St., Brgy. Kapitolyo, Pasig City.

Artbooks.ph is having its anniversary sale until Nov. 30 at its store at Pioneer Studios, 123 Pioneer St., Mandaluyong City. One may also check their online selection at www.artbooks.ph.

FILM

For its 12th year, Cinema One Originals is serving up a variety of movies for every taste and sensibility. There will be 10 films in Competition (seven narrative films and three documentary features), 20 World Cinema Winners, nine short films, and four restored classics. The annual fest will run from Nov. 14 to 22 with screenings at TriNoma, Glorietta, Gateway, Greenhills Theater, and Cinematheque in Manila. For the screening schedule, visit www.facebook.com/CinemaOneOriginals.

EXHIBITS

Lobby Lounge Luxe presents Germanophile by Randalf Dilla, on view until Nov. 27 at the Mezzanine Level of Makati Shangri-La.

ArtInformal opens four exhibitions on Nov. 17: Invisible Gardens by Yasmin Sison, Lost Highway by Mariano Ching, Untitled by Christina Quisumbing Ramilo, and a group show Interstitium by Titat Naval Ledesma, Carlos Sevilla, and Iori Espiritu.

Ateneo Art Gallery presents #LUZ@90, curated by Ambeth R. Ocampo, which runs until April 8. Featuring recent and early works, the exhibition celebrates the 90th birth anniversary of Arturo R. Luz, National Artist for Visual Arts.

The Cultural Center of the Philippines celebrates the birth month of National Artist Carlos “Botong” Francisco via the exhibit Homebound: A Survey of Recent Developments in Angono Contemporary Art which is on view until Feb. 12.

(T)HERE, a solo exhibition by Pope Bacay is up at the Tin-aw Art Gallery until Nov. 26.

The Metropolitan Museum of Manila presents three exhibits, collectively called FORTY, in celebration of its 40th anniversary. The MET Collection and New Acquisitions and The MET Archives are on view until Jan. 8, while The MET and the BSP Print Collections runs until Jan. 13.

Neyagawa by Renz Baluyot runs until Dec. 1 at the Underground Gallery, Makati Square, Don Chino Roces Ave., Makati City.

Pineapple Lab’s new XYZeries is a new collaborative work by Issa Manalo Lopez (Manila) and Siobhan V O’Loughlin (New York) entitled Colonize(d): a duet on Identity and Intersectionality.

Artery Art Space presents a two-person show titled Limbo Construct featuring the works of Bjorn Calleja and Potti Lesaguis.

Net satisfaction with national administration

THE NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION under President Rodrigo R. Duterte bagged a “very good” net satisfaction rating from the public in his first three months in office, according to a Social Weather Stations survey that bared top marks in the areas of “campaigning against illegal drugs” and “promoting human rights.” Read the full story.

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Outlook on select Asian currency exchange rates vs US$

POLITICAL UNCERTAINTY could keep prospective foreign investments to the Philippines on the fence and prolong the peso’s weakness, banking giant HSBC said in a report, with the currency seen ending the year at the P49 level against the dollar. Read the full story.

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Philippine agriculture performance

PROSPECTS for third-quarter economic growth — scheduled to be reported tomorrow — yesterday got a shot in the arm as the government reported a surprise expansion of agricultural production in those three months, fueled particularly by three out of four farm subsectors. Read  the full story.

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Overseas Filipinos’ cash remittances

MONEY SENT HOME by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) continued growth in September to post the highest level for the year, so far, though at a slower pace than in August, the central bank reported yesterday. Read the full story.

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Moody’s sovereign credit-worthiness outlook for 2017

A SHIFT to anti-immigrant policies in the United States could pose risks to the Philippines’ credit rating, as it could disrupt remittance flows that have been supporting strong domestic consumption, Moody’s Investors Service said in a report. Read the full story.

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Analysts’ Q3 GDP growth estimates

ECONOMISTS expect the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth to have stayed robust last quarter, with household consumption, investment and government spending being more than enough to offset the pull from the contraction in net exports. Read the full story.

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Philippine trade, factory output year-on-year performance

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Foreign direct investments in the Philippines

NET foreign direct investments (FDIs) to the Philippines logged the highest in four months in August and pulled the year-to-date tally closer to the central bank’s forecast for the full year. Read the full story.

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Love in the time of Mario Vargas Llosa

By Robert JA Basilio, Jr.,
Opinion and Engagement Editor

Love is a bit like Mario Vargas Llosa’s visit to Manila. It’s sweeter — perhaps even more exciting — the second time around.

Jim James shares the 6 albums that influenced him the most

FOR HIS second solo album, Eternally Even, My Morning Jacket (MJM) frontman Jim James eschews his band’s jammier tendencies and dives even deeper into the smooth 1970s-era soul vibes and psychedelic guitars he explored on his 2013 solo debut, Regions of Light and Sound of God.