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Monday, April 16, 2007 |
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WORLD BOOK DAY 2007
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Celebrating the
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By Polly Obusan
I grew up reading books. I
actually missed out on a lot of childhood requisites such as
learning how to swim, playing with neighborhood kids till dawn, or
sneaking out of the house to ride a bicycle. I never did any of
those things. My idea of play was bringing to life Three Little Pigs
or Cinderella with my siblings, complete with striped bedcovers for
costumes and ironing boards and folding cots substituting as
castles.
We grew up in a house with a
library. That probably says a lot about the brood’s affinity for
the written word, and is probably the reason why we never really got
the hang of playing outside the house like the rest of the
neighborhood kids. We would spend countless afternoons reading
everything, from Disney’s hardbound storybooks to illustrated
encyclopedias, even coffee table books on architectural design and
books on Philippine history, the most vivid of which are Philippines
At War and the Marcos biographies. During times when we weren’t
ensconced in the corners of our library poring over books, we would
either be playing the piano or sketching cartoon figures or coloring
old textbooks instead. Such is our love for reading that when we
were growing up, we even discovered the merits of reading
“komiks” out of curiosity, even if it was strictly prohibited in
the house.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Metropolitan
Museum travels to Vigan
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The Metropolitan Museum of Manila
will bring one of its traveling exhibits, Living Culture:
Contemporary Indian Textiles and Fashion in Vigan, Ilocos Norte, as
part of the museum’s summer activities this year.
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Celebrate Book Day
at Instituto Cervantes
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In celebration of World Book Day,
Instituto Cervantes will organize a whole day Open House on April
21, 2007 from 10:00 am to 11:00 pm with many fun activities like
jazz shows, an electronic music concert by Drip...
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Birds and Bolipata
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The Center for Art, New Ventures
& Sustainable Development (Canvas) is proud to present “The
Hummingbird,” an exhibition of recent works by artist Plet
Bolipata.
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The aftertaste of
rock n’ roll
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Reliving the days of Eraserheads with
the book Tikman ang Langit
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There was a time when being a
rocker meant something. You had to have balls, because it meant
being an outcast. No one understood us. We, too, didn’t understand
it much ourselves at the time. It was simply who we were.
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Poklong
Anading’s video at the Ateneo Art Gallery
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Between Intersections, a
video-installation produced by 2006 Ateneo Art Awards Winner Poklong
Anading, opens on April 18 at the Ateneo Art Gallery and runs
through April 24, 2007.
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CULTURE
VULTURE
By Rome Jorge
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If only we had
superpowers
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The United States of
America—currently the lone superpower on Earth possessing
economic, technological and military might incomparable to any
previous empire or state in all of history...
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GLOBAL
VILLAGE
By Manny
Baldemor
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St. Mary’s
Church of Cracow
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When I first set foot in this
historic city of Cracow many summers ago, I was so fascinated with
the Church of the Virgin Mary. There were two things that made this
structure stand out.
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PEOPLE
By Bob Garon
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Users and pushers
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People get very agitated when
talking about drug abuse. Pushers especially come in for some nasty
remarks. There are those who would want to “kill them all.” What
they forget is that the overwhelming majority...
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