Purple Yum!
Fact. Bohol has the tastiest, most aromatic purple yam or ube (ubi, to us) variety ever.
Fact. Mama Nena’s Ube Jam is the best ube jam in town ever.
Source: Me.
Of, course, that’s just me. My sister would’ve said, no, my ube jam is the best. Or you, you would probably say: No, mine! My Auntie’s! My mom’s!
Baji: Fighting Fire with Fire
It’s the second year of the Women’s Month arts initiative – Baji: All-Boholana Visual + Literary Arts Exhibit – and the women artists get fiery and personal.
While, Shakespeare’s King John (1595) stanza: Be stirring as the time/ be fire with fire/ Threaten the threatener and outface the brow/ Of bragging horror/ (where the phrase “fight fire with fire” may have originated) drips more of machismo , women, in the Baji Exhibit, fight fire with fire using both their feminine grace and strength, and celebrates getting through – in Baji: Through the Fire.
The exhibit opened last Sunday, March 4, and runs through the 30th of March at the Foodwalk Extension of the Island City Mall.
Bikes for Education: Pedal Power!
When getting to school takes a kid that many steps one takes to climb up and down the steep stairway at the Chocolate Hills view deck in Carmen, multiplied tenfold or more, minus the concrete steps and the great scenery, you get the sense of his dedication to get the needed education to get through life with more ease than his daily walkathon.
Jake is a sophomore student at the Baclayon High School and has been doing this daily, pretty much his whole schooling life.
Book Launch: Carousels of Time – A Collection of Verses by Rene Paredes
Lawyer and Holy Name University (HNU) law professor, Rene Paredes, launches his chapbook collection of poems entitled Carousels of Time on Friday, March 24, 2012 at the Metro Centre Hotel.
A large number of the works in the 17-poem collection has been edited by acclaimed Boholana poet Marjorie Evasco.
Copies of the book will be sold at the launch. Carousels of Time may also be purchased in BQ Mall and Central Books in Manila.
Parks and Recreation
There’s a lot to be told about a city or town by looking at its public parks. There’s just something endearing and sophisticated about a place where we see people reading a newspaper or a book on a park bench, kids chasing and jumping after butterflies or doves, picnicking families, youngsters practicing the latest “dougie” variations, or just plain hanging out, playing board games, relaxing under the canopy of trees.
This is Sunday fare – a little tamer, homier and less greener – at our very own little park, of course, Plaza Rizal.
Tanghalang Ateneo’s Romeo + Juliet at the HNU Stage
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, the tragic tale of star-crossed lovers Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, sure is as sweet as it is gripping, wherever it’s set, whatever language it’s told, or whatever medium it’s told with.
Romeo & Juliet has been adapted manyfold, from faithful stage adaptations to unlikely versions like the West Side Story set in the streetgang-ridden1950s New York and Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet in modern Verona, a coastal California city.
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