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“LOVE is the only reason to live,” was the resounding theme of the second exhibition of the contemporary artist group Bondman’s Key, Bondman’s Key _ First Stanza, at the UST Museum of Arts & Sciences last February 14.

The group, which was formed in 2000, is composed of three UST Advertising Arts alumni–Edrie Myrick Ocampo, Jaime Jesus Pacena, and Buen Franklyn Anthony Calubayan.

LIKE the bamboo, Filipino music sways with the wind and resonates a soothing rhythm and sound. It echoes nature like the gentle flowing of rivers and the hard pounding of rocks.

Celebratory Filipino music was featured in Musiko Mundo: Pinoy World Music Concert last Feb. 9 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP). The concert was part of the National Arts Month.

Neil Goldberg’s Cirque awed Filipino audiences with its artistic and stunning acrobatics.

The production featured highly-acclaimed circus artists from Mongolia, China, United States, Russia, Hungary, Germany, and Canada.

Breaking from the conventional circus production of animal exhibition and magic tricks, Cirque portrayed circus as high theater.

WHEN she began her talk on historic preservation at the College of Architecture conference room, Roz Li was every inch a successful woman. Although regarded as a well-established architect and preservationist in New York City, she remains proud to be a Thomasian.

WHAT would you do if you got stranded in the desert with little food, water, and barely enough esteem to begin with? Stage a play? Probably not.

BEST-SELLING author John Grisham veers away from his trademark courtroom-dramas and explores the many faces of greed in his latest novel The Summons.

At 43, respected law professor at the University of Virginia Ray Atlee lives life like any middle-aged single man until he receives a letter from his father, Judge Reuben Atlee. The letter summons him and his brother, Forrest, to return to the Atlee mansion to discuss the details of their inheritance.

MEN IN Black II is a fly-by-easy-on-the-eye show. The absence of sharp twists and “that bang in the end” may send the audience off to slumber, if not for the great exhibit of digital effects. The much-awaited sequel short-changes the audience because it presents nothing new—as if after five years the MIB had been sucked into a vacuum.

THIS TIME it is not about politics or economics.

Cultural Landscapes: Recent Prints from North-Central Arnhem Land presents 30 paintings with indigenous themes—a collaboration of two art centers, namely the Maningrida Arts and Culture and Northern Editions.

Maningrida Arts and Culture is a community-based art center with over 250 aboriginal artists from the Maningrida and surrounding communities in the northern coast of Australia at the mouth of the Liverpool River.

WHAT happens when two completely incompatible men spend one day together every week? Repertory Philippines shows what in Visiting Mr. Green, a two-act comedy directed by Zenaida Amador.

Mr. Green (Miguel Faustman), a 70-year-old retired dry cleaner, is almost hit by a car driven by Ross Gardiner (Michael Williams), a 29-year-old corporate executive. Consequently, Gardiner is charged with reckless driving and sentenced to community service by visiting and helping Mr. Green on his apartment every Thursday for six months.

MAY KUWENTO ang bawat tao.

Ito marahil ang nais iparating ng pelikulang Piñero na isinulat at idinirek ni Leon Ichasco. Umiikot ito sa masalimuot na buhay ng isang makata, artista, at mandudulang taga-Puerto Rico na si Miguel Piñero (Benjamin Bratt).