October 19, 2024
Baguio City- Over 100 works from artists from all over the country were on display in multi venues the city in celebration of the 14th Tam awan International Arts Festival (TIAF) Chanum Foundation Inc. and Tam-Awan Village have staged multi venue exhibitions for the 14th Tam-awan International Arts Festival (TIAF 14) held in two of […]
October 12, 2024
Tam – Awan is on its 14th festival Heritage, culture and art takes centerstage anew as the Chanum Foundation stages the 14th Tam-Awan International Arts Festival (TIAF 14). Concluded, October 3 to 6, 2024, in partnership with the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), themed “Empowering the Artist through Community Galleries,” converges over […]
September 15, 2024
BEFORE I knew I could eat Menudo, I grew up liking their music. Call them the boy bands of old, to which the millennials who know nothing about, making it a secret for generations past, allowing scoffing when asked to retell history. When millennials are caught off guard on a subject they know nothing about, […]
September 7, 2024
Yes, not one, not twice, but thrice, it is not to impress anyone, I read the Shakespeare classic over and over because I didn’t understand a word he said the first time. I was a struggling English major, who was overwhelmed with the reading list given by a professor with a monotone. On the first […]
August 17, 2024
THE day I had to find my passport was the day I realized I was afraid of boxes. I had dozens of it at home, the home, stacked and rotting, I put it off opening these boxes for so long it has gotten silly. And hidden behind my bookcase were three steel boxes I mentally […]
August 10, 2024
WAITING will zap you of whatever hope you have left in your system and will spit it out like phlegm from a bad cough. Waiting sucks to say the least. In waiting for a bus I should have been in two hours ago, I had no choice but to sit still and become a literal […]
July 28, 2024
SUN TZU, author of the “Art of War”, wrote in length on how to win battles. The timeless classic aimed to teach warriors on how to defeat their enemies in times of chaos, making the book widely sought after and now has become the bible in the art of battle. In another realm, somewhere where […]
July 21, 2024
A THREE-WEEK journey to different odds and ends has left this traveler with a wealth of insight and a treasure trove of stories. The journey has taken me back to the quiet solace of a highland town, appreciated and pondered on with its merits and beauty while surprise of the magic of a refreshing waterfall […]
July 6, 2024
I MET Pepe Smith one drunken night at Gimbals, a bar he frequented because of its music. It was a place where local bands thrived and where there was music, there was Pepe Smith. Gimbals has long closed with Pepe Smith outliving its stint. He had a swagger which will make you think he was […]
June 15, 2024
Just when you thought you couldn’t get another chance to experience your favorite Virgin Labfest plays from the theater festival’s previous editions, the Cultural Center of the Philippines is releasing a new anthology book, Mga Piling Dula Mula Sa Virgin Labfest 2017-2019 Ikaapat Na Antolohiya. Landing on your bookshelves on June June 26, 2024, 5 […]