The King is Dead

(photo credit: inquirer.net)

Lolong, the world’s largest crocodile died due to pneumonia brought about by the stress of captivity.

We are then reminded of the issues surrounding Mali, the 36 year old elephant in Manila Zoo who gained world wide attention when British rocker Morissey wrote the Philippine government to ask that the pachyderm be moved to a US sanctuary for aging animals.

Trixie Cruz-Angeles: Saving World Heritage

The Philippines is signatory to the World Heritage Convention, as is the United States. The Philippines signed in 1985, the US in 1973 – one of the few conventions that nation has entered into.

Art. 6 of that convention, states:

An Afternoon with THE Maestro Eddie Romero

     

  

For twelve years, we’ve made it our habit. THE MAESTRO Eddie Romero and I have had coffee sessions (plus his smoking moments) when I was still with the NCCA Cinema Program. That’s one thing I’ve missed since I left in 2007. Now, we meet from time to time to have lunch and afternoon coffee sessions. I’m glad that the last time we did this, we were finally joined by my good friend, Atty. Trixie whom I should thank for these memorable photos.

Trixie Cruz-Angeles: 'Dolphy is not covered by SC TRO' - lawyer

MANILA, Philippines - The legal controversy surrounding the National Artist Award selection in 2009 does not cover Rodolfo "Dolphy" Quizon Sr, according to a lawyer behind the Supreme Court (SC) complaint that stopped the conferment of the award three years ago.

Trixie Cruz-Angeles: Why Dolphy is not yet a National Artist

MANILA, Philippines - If there were any regrets among many Filipinos when the news of Dolphy's death broke Tuesday, July 10, it would be that the country's King of Comedy was not named a National Artist when he was still alive.

Trixie Cruz-Angeles: The Manunggul Jar

By Rose Beatrix C. Angeles (Trixie Cruz-Angeles)

Sylvia Morningstar says that we, the Filipino people, are older than our conquerors. I believe it. My favorite artifact -- emphasis on the ART -- is the Manunggul Jar. Its a Neolithic Age, nearly complete burial jar found in the Tabon Cave Complex in Palawan back in 1964.

Robert Fox describes it as follows:

"The burial jar with a cover featuring a ship-of-the-dead is perhaps unrivalled in Southeast Asia; the work of an artist and master potter. This vessel provides a clear example of a cultural link between the archaeological past and the ethnographic present. The boatman is steering rather than padding the "ship." The mast of the boat was not recovered. Both figures appear to be wearing a band tied over the crown of the head and under the jaw; a pattern still encountered in burial practices among the indigenous peoples in Southern Philippines. The manner in which the hands of the front figure are folded across the chest is also a widespread practice in the Islands when arranging the corpse.

Trixie Cruz-Angeles: Lost and Longing

By Rose Beatrix C. Angeles (Trixie Cruz-Angeles)

INQUIRER.net

First Posted 07/29/2008

My love is like a river in the Sea of Tranquility

“The Arms of Orion” (theme of Batman Forever)

BEHOLD AND WEEP- at the totally different face of Manila a hundred years ago, with its esteros flowing as a network of transportation and trade. In that era, the American master architect Daniel Burnham “believed that with proper planning he could turn Manila into a ‘city equal to the greatest of the Western World,’ with a bay like Naples’s, a winding river like Paris’s and canals like those of Venice,” writes Rose Beatrix Angeles. 

(Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian Institute)

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Manila was becoming known as the Venice of the Far East. This was due in no small part to the admiration of the practical and aesthetic possibilities of the esteros or inland rivers by one Daniel Burnham, then architect of Manila.

Yes, he’s the Burnham of the park in Baguio and the Manila Burnham plan. Burnham believed that with proper planning he could turn Manila into a “city equal to the greatest of the Western World,” what with a bay like that of Naples, a winding river like that of Paris and canals like those of Venice.