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Jan 13, 2025 | 
plus.inquirer.net | Amadís Ma. Guerrero
You might call it a unique, special kind of concert. “Tutti Trombone” brought together student musicians from two leading universities—the trombone-playing members of the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Conservatory of Music Thomasian Trombone Choir led by Ricson Poonin, acting principal trombonist of the Cultural Center of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra; and the Far Eastern University (FEU) Drum and Bugle Corps, also composed of students, led by Kevin Castelo.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
plus.inquirer.net | Amadís Ma. Guerrero
It is an intimate, experimental play produced by the Japan Foundation, a collaborative performance between Peta (Philippine Educational Theater Association) and the Kyoto-based group BRDG: “Sari-Sali Portal Café,” directed by Ian Segarra and Keiko Yamaguchi. We can get an idea of what it is all about from the title itself–“portal” means a door, and a door opens to what? An understanding, perhaps. So it is a play about a meeting–not a clash–of cultures, Filipino and Japanese.
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Jul 14, 2024 | 
entertainment.inquirer.net | Amadís Ma. Guerrero
From childhood onwards, Edgar Sinco Romero—later known simply as Eddie Romero—was drawn to literature and movies. He started writing stories when he was 7 and, by the time he was 16, one of his stories, “Oh Johnny Oh,” was published in the prestigious Philippines Free Press. His career as a film director began in the late 1940s and spanned six decades. Romero wrote his screenplays in English, later translated into Tagalog. He often produced or coproduced his films.
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Mar 16, 2024 | 
lifestyle.inquirer.net | Pam Pastor |Nastasha Verayo-De Villa |Alya B. Honasan |Amadís Ma. Guerrero
It began with an invitation from Baclaran Church. It was March 2020, and the people at the National Shrine of Our Mother of Perpetual Help had mobilized, preparing food for front-liners and the homeless. Maybe Mae Paner would like to volunteer? “They know I can cook,” Paner told Lifestyle. Cooking might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Paner.
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Mar 16, 2024 | lifestyle.inquirer.net | Pam Pastor |Nastasha Verayo-De Villa |Alya B. Honasan |Amadís Ma. Guerrero
It began with an invitation from Baclaran Church. It was March 2020, and the people at the National Shrine of Our Mother of Perpetual Help had mobilized, preparing food for front-liners and the homeless. Maybe Mae Paner would like to volunteer? “They know I can cook,” Paner told Lifestyle. Cooking might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Paner.
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Mar 16, 2024 | 
lifestyle.inquirer.net | Pam Pastor |Nastasha Verayo-De Villa |Alya B. Honasan |Amadís Ma. Guerrero
Ask Margarita Forés how her passion for food started and she will tell you, “I was a fat kid who loved to eat.”Her family played a big role in igniting the chef and restaurateur’s love for cooking. Forés said, “Coming from a Negrense family who loves to celebrate around the table … Negrenses are so proud of their cuisine. We grew up in Manila but that heritage was around us all the time and we had regular trips to Bacolod, our home province.
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Mar 16, 2024 | lifestyle.inquirer.net | Pam Pastor |Nastasha Verayo-De Villa |Alya B. Honasan |Amadís Ma. Guerrero
Ask Margarita Forés how her passion for food started and she will tell you, “I was a fat kid who loved to eat.”Her family played a big role in igniting the chef and restaurateur’s love for cooking. Forés said, “Coming from a Negrense family who loves to celebrate around the table … Negrenses are so proud of their cuisine. We grew up in Manila but that heritage was around us all the time and we had regular trips to Bacolod, our home province.
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Mar 16, 2024 | 
lifestyle.inquirer.net | Nastasha Verayo-De Villa |Alya B. Honasan |Amadís Ma. Guerrero |Marge C. Enriquez
Visual artist Marina Cruz was having difficulty conceiving with her fellow artist husband Rodel Tapaya 15 years ago due to polycystic ovarian syndrome when they finally decided to adopt. Cruz initially underwent some workups and treatments, which she found to be “very stressful, frustrating and depressing.” So the couple decided to “think outside the box,” filled out some forms, waited for a match and finally brought home a son some months later.
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Mar 16, 2024 | lifestyle.inquirer.net | Nastasha Verayo-De Villa |Alya B. Honasan |Amadís Ma. Guerrero |Marge C. Enriquez
Visual artist Marina Cruz was having difficulty conceiving with her fellow artist husband Rodel Tapaya 15 years ago due to polycystic ovarian syndrome when they finally decided to adopt. Cruz initially underwent some workups and treatments, which she found to be “very stressful, frustrating and depressing.” So the couple decided to “think outside the box,” filled out some forms, waited for a match and finally brought home a son some months later.
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Mar 16, 2024 | 
lifestyle.inquirer.net | Alya B. Honasan |Amadís Ma. Guerrero |Marge C. Enriquez |Jar Concengco
In July 2013, I was in the lobby of St. Luke’s Medical Center in Global City, headed for my first chemotherapy session, when I ran into Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala. “Oh, I was in the area,” she said nonchalantly—an outright lie, I would learn many years later: My friend had come to check on me. Kara is a cancer patient advocate and documentary filmmaker.
