Florence Foster Jenkins: tone-deaf but adored
LOS ANGELES — When opera lovers ask New York’s Carnegie Hall for souvenir concert programs, they’re not usually interested in Maria Callas or Joan Sutherland.
Reading the Signs: How eyewear pushes courage
IN MARCH 2007, Ray-Ban, the eyewear icon, told its consumers to “never hide.” On one of its global campaign posters, we see two men, one wearing Ray-Ban eyeglasses, walking hand-in-hand down a crowded New York City street. The setting is in the 1940s, back when male-to-male relationships were still taboo. Behind the couple are passersby, some with disapproving looks on their faces. It was as if it the glasses give the wearer extra power to be courageous and tell their secrets to the world without reservation.
The sound of silence
By Zsarlene B. Chua
Film Festival
10th International Silent Film Festival
Aug. 25 to 28
Shang Cineplex, Shangri-La Plaza Mall, Mandaluyong City
Why pay for a salesperson?
Getting The Edge In Professional Selling
Terence A. Hockenhull
I’M RIGHT IN the middle of ordering additional company brochures, completing layouts from new flyers and pamphlets, and printing marketing material for an upcoming exhibition.
It’s a dog’s life
By Richard Roeper
MOVIE REVIEW
The Secret Life of Pets
Directed by Chris Renaud and Yarrow Cheney
Israeli scientists say they can block melanoma spread
JERUSALEM — Israeli scientists have uncovered how the most severe form of skin cancer spreads to other organs in a discovery that could revolutionize treatment of the disease, they said Tuesday.
Your Weekend Guide (August 26, 2016)
EXHIBITS
The Goethe-Institute Philippines presents Club Berlin: Electronic Music and Photography, an event to engage both sight and sound, curated by Heiko Hoffman and Alfons Hug, featuring photographic works of Berlin’s 1990s club scene by Martin Eberle and portraits by Berghain club member Sven Marquardt. The exhibit will also feature rare footages from the Boiler Room, an underground platform. The exhibit opens on Aug. 26 and will be on view until Sept. 23 at Pineapple Lab in Rockwell, Makati City.
Truth in Chowking advertising
Ads & Ends
Nanette Franco-Diyco
WHILE THE RAINS poured non-stop last Friday en route to Makati, my friend Mina Contreras and I encountered humongous bumper-to-bumper traffic that forced us to slowly but surely reconsider our destination.