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MEDIUM RARE To quote a balikbayan Alex-in-Wonderland, “Some of your malls are much nicer than what we have back home,” home being the great United States of America. I remembered AiW upon stepping into the mall housing Samsung Performing Arts Theater in  Makati last week. Another excuse to...

MEDIUM RARE As every culture vulture knows, Cultural Center of the Philippines won’t be alive with the sound of music, drama, and applause for the next two years. The 52-year-old lady needs a bit of cosmetic surgery to keep in step with performers’ demand for a home worthy of their talents...

MEDIUM RARE Among other things, he is a Papal Awardee for serving Mother Church through his charity works, as he is also well known near and far for his love of music (and unstinting support for up-and-coming musicians). He sings in church as regularly as he jogs around the ancestral home built by...

MEDIUM RARE Not a full moon, only a half-moon. It was a romantic enough touch to make Symphony at the Terrace memorable and, truly, one of a kind. But then Ed Yap, who deals in currency rather than music, is used to producing out-of-the-box events. A Christmas choral concert inside a church. Music...

MEDIUM RARE It’s a small world with big players and extensive influence. And not all that democratic. At their last election recently, 830 delegates cast their votes to represent 168 chambers. Cecilio Pedro of Hapee toothpaste smiled all the way to the top as president. He ran unopposed, which...