CULTURE

UP Vargas Museum opens after-hours for an art-rave party this Sept. 30

Taking cues from Jorge B. Vargas’s hosting residence Kawilihan, the university museum will open its doors past regular hours for a night of art, experimental rock, and electronic dance

You can watch the award-winning play ‘The Life of Pi’ in this local cinema this month

Eight other plays from UK’s National Theatre will be screened once a month until 2024

This couple is helping preserve Filipino heritage cooking, one TikTok at a time

Beatriz Gomez and Roberto Villarcabral are the brains (and stars!) of The Lost Filipino Cookbook—a.k.a. your new favorite TikTok account

Beauty Gonzalez’s excavated gold jewelry gets flak for possibly desecrating burial graves

The actress wore gold neck piece and earrings made of excavated eye and mouth covers, which she said came from places like Butuan and Surigao

Dolly de Leon, Carlo Aquino, and Gio Gahol star in Cinemalaya’s first full-length animated film

“Iti Mapukpukaw” is the first animated feature film shot in rotoscope to compete in the Cinemalaya Film Festival

‘90s Kabaklaan is a time capsule for Filipino diaspora, plus more tea you probably didn’t know

The page has more celebrity tea than Instagram can handle, from ’90s drama to post-2022 election unfollowing kerfuffle. Plus, the whole deal about its admin being anon

Watch Bernal’s ‘Manila By Night’ for free, plus more Filipino and foreign films at this Pride film fest

Ishmael Bernal’s masterpiece will be screened at Cinematheque Centres in Manila, Davao, Iloilo, Nabunturan, and Negros on June 26 as part of FDCP’s “PeliKULAYa” showcase

New local press Exploding Galaxies brings forgotten Filipino literary stars back to life

The press is expanding our Filipiniana shelves one thoughtfully-designed book at a time, starting with Wilfrido D. Nolledo’s postmodernist novel, “But for the Lovers”

Jonathan Larson’s ‘Tick, Tick… Boom!’ is returning to the local stage

The semi-autobiographical musical tells the story of an aspiring composer rethinking his decision to pursue his musical theater dreams before his thirtieth birthday

Jeepneycore and basketball court dance floors inspired this Budots rave’s Pinoy maximalist stage

Manila Community Radio’s Boiler Room Budots showcase was not just about the grassroots sound, it was also a celebration of Filipino maximalism that production designer Paul Jatayna faithfully staged for the rave