Evo & Grace: The WanderLusts

Photos from Heneral Luna Facebook page. The much talked historical biopic film Heneral Luna once again is back in Manila this coming November 30, 2015, 6pm at Meralco Theater. This is a special screening, and a fund raising event for Bagong Sistema, Bagong Pag-asa, an apolitical movement group that advocates the changing of the Philippine Constitution for the better future. The said semi-NGO group is led by former Chief Justice Reynato Puno, who is now on the verge of asking the Philippine congress before the Christmas break to approve its petition for Constitutional Convention. Bagong Sistema, Bagong Pag-Asa (BSBP) is also a membership organization with around 5,000 plus individual members and 300 to 500 thousands affiliate organization around the country.   They just started July of this year during a Summit for Change held in Club Filipino. Bagong Sistema Bagong Pag-Asa is not calling for Charter Change but the whole basic 1987 Constitutions to be revised and ado...

Are you looking for anti aging skin care products? Have you thought of buying one? Anti aging skin care products remind me of the song ’18 till I die’. Indeed, anti aging skin care products are very popular today; and why not, who doesn’t want to look young for ever?  Talking of anti aging skin care products, the first thing that comes to mind is vitamin C based anti aging skin care products.  These products work by enabling the synthesis of collagen (a structural protein that is found in skin). This category of anti aging skin care products is related to anti-oxidants. Anti aging skin care products that are based on vitamin C are, however, posed with the danger of getting oxidised themselves (as they come into contact with air during their usage). So some anti aging skin care products are based on the derivatives of vitamin C, which are more stable and less expensive. However, the effectiveness of such anti aging skin care is not as much as it is for vitamin C based ...

The Technical Theater Batch 112 of De La Salle- College of St.Benilde recently stage its major graduating production, the Paglayang Minamahal that open last November 12 and last until Nov 15 at the School of Design and Arts Theater. This theater program is comprised mostly of students taking Bachelor of Arts Major in Technical Theater of College of St. Benilde. Paglayang Minamahal is a sarswela written and Directed by Palanca award winner George De Jesus III with the music of Jeffrey Hernandez.   Natasha Cabrera plays the role of Alodia, the barrio lass who fell in love with Mauricio, a rich ilustrado played by Jojo Riguerra. It talks about freedom from slavery that explores many levels of love usually through songs, mostly in authentic Filipino or Tagalog lyrics.   It is first written during the Philippine Centenial Celebrations in 1998 and won second prize in Sarswela category of Centennial Literary competition.   It was first produced as a stage play by Tangh...

Direk Erik Matti and John Lloyd Cruz. This is going to be really short. Films like Honor Thy Father don't need hoity-toity praises. If only we can force every Filipino to watch this, maybe there could be a brighter future. Maybe that's an exaggeration. Honor Thy Father is Erik Matti's latest thriller, following the triumph of On the Job.  So a quick synopsis. Edgar (John Lloyd Cruz) and Kaye (Meryll Soriano) is involved in a pyramid scheme scam organized by Kaye's father. The father got killed. So the fraud victims, which are mostly members of a religious group where Edgar's family are members, hunt down Kaye. A couple even kidnapped the couples daughter, threatened to do more harm if they don't bring back their money. Frustrated, Edgar and Kaye seek the help of the leader of their shady church, where their murdered father donated a million pesos. But this step failed.  Time is running out so Edgar took the bull the horns. Joined by his miner si...

The Horse and his Boy. It is so far the best Filipino adaptation of a book made into play, the Horse and his boy by Trumpets productions surpass all my expectations in terms of reason why I go to theater. I must admit that acting, production value and its story is the strength of this Narnia classics that debut in Philippine Theater last November  5, 2015 at Meralco Theater. It’s the story of an orphan boy name Shasta and a talking horse Bree, they journey together towards freedom, in the north called Narnia. Along the way they met Noblewoman, Aravis and her talking mare, Hwin. And they both travel altogether. But their fate is somehow plotted with the beloved characters of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, the grown-ups Susan, Edmund and Lucy who now reigns as monarch of Narnia. And of course who could forget Aslan, the great and big lion. Luna Grino-Inocian is the playwright for this C.S Lewis well love classic, while Jaime Del Mundo magnificently direc...

I entered an unusual space. With nothing but a bed and a 24 inch square TV on the center, a seemingly decorated bathroom and scourged fridge on both corners, the seemingly door entering a seemingly room, and table and chairs place horizontally against each other. I entered somebody else's apartment, transported to an era where there is a deliberate separation of the young generation from a post -hippie-youth; transported to a place where the liberals are powerful and the rich and wayward kids in the neighborhood hide their damnest insecurities through running away from home. The people I usually called the “audience” were awkwardly seated on the floor, occupying the space provided for them, anticipating what will become of this play, anticipating their expectations of the characters they will see or plainly intrigued by this non-plot play from award winning playwright Kenneth Lonnergan. And then the invisible curtain opens, there enters a some 19- year- old k...

Of course I didn’t say no when I got invited by a friend to watch the Diana King and All 4 One concert, held last Oct 28, 2015 at the Newport Performing Arts Theater of Resort World at Pasay City. These two are one my many icons of 90’s that I really wish to see on stage. Diana open the show, you will feel the mood of her beat and all out belting that reflect how excited she is, Diana is not new to Manila, she’s here 5 years ago, she’s turning 45 now and she’s still the Diana King we saw on those old videos, still can make you dance to your feet through her reggae fusion music. On her spiels, Diana shared a lot of stories to the almost full audience on a Wednesday night, one of it is the song “Treat Her Like a Lady” that she allowed Celine Dion to revive it, she declare that she love Celine and appreciate it her version, while the song “Love yourself” according to King is written for her sister, that later on it became personal to her to the point that she did ask herself th...