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Linda Ty-Casper black and white photo by Bill Edmunds with a 2024 edition of the book “The Three-Cornered Sun” from local press Exploding Galaxies
Linda Ty-Casper is a trail-blazing fictionist you should read if you want to unlearn textbook history

Exploding Galaxies’ Mara Coson on the new edition of the author’s 1979 book “The Three-Cornered Sun” and why it’s still relevant nearly half a century after its publication

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How a Filipino chef pulled off an artsy dinner with binakol, pandesal, and kakanin in NYC

Lj Almendras’ six-course menu for Nicole Coson’s exhibit opening at Silverlens New York is an extension of the show’s literal and metaphorical theme of vessels and a response to America’s past attempts to erase our culinary identity

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History and revolution sound hip with ‘Pingkian’’s rock treatment

With lyrics based on Emilio Jacinto’s writings, an ensemble spitting bars, and a woman Rizal, there’s many reasons to enjoy Tanghalang Pilipino’s latest musical

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Even environmentalist and TikToker Celine Murillo is sometimes sad in the company of trees

“This work is both rewarding and heartbreaking [but] acknowledging and sitting with our emotions, even the unpleasant ones, is a form of resistance,” says the viral creator mainstreaming Philippine native trees

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5 of Fed Pua’s favorite things at the new It’s Vintage store in Salcedo, Makati

It’s Vintage’s creative director gives us a tour of their bigger, funkier, and trippier space

If candlelight, music, and wine is your thing, this event has all three

A candlelight concerto featuring the Manila Philharmonic Orchestra *with* a wine flight? Sign us up

Six the musical
Divorced, beheaded, live—in Manila: ‘Six the Musical’ opens this October

Hit modern pop musical about the six ex-wives of King Henry VIII is on a limited run this year

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Comedy musical ‘Spelling Bee’ is everything but daunting despite the brainy title

“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” shows us heartwarming truths about growing up and just trying our best—with a sprinkle of vocabulary, too

Here’s how you can get your hands on the world’s ‘best butter’

Butter is joy, life, and all the good things in the world. And Le Beurre Bordier is supposedly the best of the best

Jaclyn Jose: Essential films you have to see

Jaclyn Jose, a mainstay of both independent and mainstream Filipino television and cinema, has passed away at age 60