• Pinoy expats in the Bay Area missing home and its flavors can make sinigang and other much-loved Filipino dishes with ingredients from a kababayan who grows them in her backyard.
• Artist Robert Langenegger’s makes a provocative statement: “The Worst Painter Is the One That Paints.”
• Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella was shining, shimmering, and splendid.
• Joanna Ampil, who played Kim in Miss Saigon in London and recently Fantine in Les Miserables, comes home to the Philippines to perform for her kababayan in Stages’ rendition of West Side Story. Ampil plays Maria to Christian Bautista’s Tony. Watch a video of the pair singing “Tonight” for the press. [More: Joanna sings "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miserables, in which she played Fantine. Again Joanna doing a Miss Saigon medley with Christian Bautista, Miss Saigon Fil-Australian actor Rowena Vilar, and Gian Magdangal.]
• Why watch West Side Story? Here are nine reasons why.
• The 4th Philippine Bird Festival, which goes to Palawan in September, is an opportunity to know more about the more than 500 species that can be found in the Philippines. Birdwatching is expected to attract foreigners who want to do something other than get a tan in our beaches.
• At Pampers World, we became babies for a day, climbing up oversized sofas, exploring the world with our sense of touch, trying out mommy’s shoes.

“Tamu” by Elmer Nocheseda

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