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Nine Inch Nails in
Manila
The American electronic
rock specialists Nine Inch Nails are coming to the Philippines for a show.
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TIME OUT & ABOUT
Pub quiz nights, Tuesdays
Quiz nights are drawing the crowds at Murphy’s Makati pub every
Tuesday evening. The general knowledge quizzes offer prizes of cash,
vouchers for holidays and meals, wine and other drinks.
The participation fee is 500 pesos for a table
of four people plus 100 pesos for each additional person at the table.
Quiz starting time is 8pm. Information and bookings: Murphy’s Makati,
phone +632 813 1378 or +632 894 1884.
WWE pro
wrestling, July 10
World Wrestling Entertainment, the American professional wresting
show better known as WWE, is on its way back to Manila after a three-year
absence. On the “WWE Smackdown Manila” program are wrestlers Edge, Umaga,
Triple H, Undertaker, Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy, Vladimir Kozlov, The Big
show, MVP and Michelle McCool, who will be throwing each other around the
ring at Araneta Center in Cubao, Quezon City, on July 10 (7pm).
Tickets: 1,260 to 10,500 pesos through the
Ticketnet website.
American bazaar,
July 14
The American Women's Club of the Philippines has its next monthly
bazaar on July 14 (8.30am-3pm), with about 300 stalls selling mainly
Philippine-made handicrafts, art, clothing and accessories, textiles,
furniture, homeware and food, at the World Trade Center Metro Manila in
Pasay City.
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DINING/DRINKING
One free with six
A table of six people or more dining out on the set menus in Tin
Hau Chinese restaurant at the Mandarin Oriental Manila hotel can have one
person dining for free. The promotion is offered daily except Mondays this
month, with the choice of set menus starting at 1,088 pesos per person.
Table bookings: Tin Hau, phone +632 750 8888 extension 2422.
Sunset barbecues
Sunset barbecues are now offered on Friday evenings (weather
permitting) at the Pan Pacific Manila hotel’s Sundeck close to the
swimming pool and bar. Several choices are available on the grill from 6pm
to 9pm, including a mixed grill combo priced at 750 pesos and the mixed
seafood combo for 700 pesos. Bookings: Pan Pacific Manila butler, phone
+632 536 0788.
Heavy weekend brunch
An eat-all-you-can buffet brunch is now available on weekends at
Chef Laudico Bistro Filipino in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig, Metro Manila. For
the price tag of 788 pesos plus service charge, hungry brunchers can
choose among all 50 appetizers, soups, salads, entrees and desserts on the
restaurant’s regular a la carte and breakfast menus, with unlimited drinks
lemon grass iced tea, sampalok juice, sodas and coffee. It’s available on
Saturdays and Sundays from 10am to 3pm. Table bookings: Bistro Filipino,
phone +632 856 0634 or 63917 800 2433.
Italian
buffet
Grappa’s Ristorante, an Italian eatery in the Greenbelt 2 mall in
Makati has a buffet meal promotion offering lunch for 498 pesos and dinner
for 598 pesos, including a selection of meat, fish and pasta dishes with a
carvery section. Table bookings: Grappa’s, +632 757 4897.
Nuvo set lunch
Nuvo, the up-market continental restaurant in the Greenbelt 2 mall
in Makati, has a three-course set lunch offer priced at 395 pesos
including a soup, main course and dessert. Table bookings: Nuvo, phone
+757 3698.
Fine dining, bottomless
wine, July 31
The Tivoli restaurant in the Mandarin Oriental Manila hotel in
Makati has fine dining evenings on the last Friday (7pm
- 9.30pm) of each month where a seven-course dinner comes with
unlimited refills of the evening’s featured wines.
Next up is on July 31.
Price: 4,800++ pesos. Table reservations: Tivoli, phone +632 750 8888
extension 2431.
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Spanish
films, Saturdays
Instituto Cervantes, Spain's cultural
organization in the Philippines, screens free Spanish movies, most of them
in Spanish with English subtitles, every Saturday (usually 6pm) at the
Instituto Cervantes Salón de Actos in Ermita, Manila.
Movie schedule and information: Instituto Cervantes, phone +632 526 1282 to 85.
German films
in Manila
German movies are being screened in Manila every last Saturday of
the month (5pm) at Fully Booked in Bonifacio High Street, Taguig.
Admission is free.
No registration required and seating is on a
first-come, first-served basis. Information: Goethe-Institut Manila, phone
+632 817 0978.
Italian movies
in Manila
Italian movies are being shown monthly by the Italian Embassy
and the Philippine-Italian Association at the Cultural Center of the
Philippines Dream Theater in Pasay City, many with English subtitles.
Admission is free.
Movie schedule and information:
Philippine-Italian Association secretariat, phone
+632 892 7253 or +632 815 1310.
Cinekatipunan
screenings
Quality Philippine-made movies, many of them film festival candidates
and award winners, are now being shown regularly in Manila at Mag:net Café
in Katipunan Avenue, Loyola
Heights, Quezon City. They’re screened between
the Mag:net galleries and cafe's changing menu of shows featuring good Filipino
musicians, art exhibits, poetry readings, special performances and similar
fare. The cafe is open for lunch and dinner with shows and/or screenings
most evenings
Schedule information: Mag:net Café, phone +632 929 3191,
email
sinag_haraya@yahoo.com,
website
www.magnet.com.ph.
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ART
Around
the art galleries
Art exhibitions and shows currently happening in
Philippine galleries and art shops include:
• An exhibit featuring the work of young Filipino comic book
illustrators and cartoonists who are making an impact locally and
internationally is on show at the Edge Gallery of the University of
the Philippines Jorge B. Vargas Museum in Diliman, Quezon City.
The “Panel Collective” exhibit, continuing until
June 28, includes work by Melvin Calingo, Joanah Tinio-Calingo, Michael
David, Gabriel Dela Cruz, Gilbert Monsanto, Jhomar Soriano, Elmer Damaso,
Jerome Jacinto, JM Valenzuela, Keso, Chong Ardivilla, Albert Rodriguez,
Syeri Baet-Zamar, Jon Zamar and Robi Villagracia.
Information: UP Vargas Museum, email
vargasmuseum@gmail.com, phone
+632 928 1927 or +63 929 856 7909.
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‘The
Fantasticks,’ July 3-26
“The Fantasticks,” one of the longest running shows in the history
of American theater, is in the Repertory Philippines show calendar this
season. Written by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, the plot is about two
small-town fathers who, in a well-intended attempt to spark romance
between their children, devise a scheme in which they pretend to feud.
What unfolds is a story of innocence undone, illusion lost and wisdom
gained.
The Rep’s “Fantasticks” is scheduled for July 3-26 at Onstage in the
Greenbelt One mall in Makati with Friday and Saturday evening shows (8pm)
and 3.30pm matinees on Saturdays and Sundays.
Tickets: 309 to 618 pesos through the
Ticketworld
website.
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Casino
extravaganzas
Bigger and better stage shows are promised at the Philippine
Amusement and Gaming Corporation’s PAGCOR Grand Theater at the Airport
Casino Filipino in Parañaque City. In the latest innovation, the
long-running “Wanders” extravaganza is now alternating with a new show
called “Flow.”
Both are similar in format, featuring a mix of Filipino singers and
dancers with acrobatic performers and dancers from China and Cuba backed
by big band music with illusionists and special stage effects – involving
a cast of about 150 performers in all.
Information: phone +632 852 7758 or 7754. Tickets: 1,236 to 3,090 pesos
through the
Ticketworld website.
Jazz at Martinis
Jazz is the main music in the coming weeks at Martinis bar in the
Mandarin Oriental Manila hotel. The featured acts every evening (9pm until
late) except Saturdays are up-and-coming Filipino jazz singers and
musicians: Kat Aggarado and Aya Yuson on Mondays, Johnny Alegre and Cookie
Chua on Tuesdays, David Starck and Manila Paris Confidential on
Wednesdays, Skarlet on Thursdays, pianist David Starck on Fridays and Mel
Santos on Sundays.
Table reservations: Martinis, phone +632 750 8888 extension 2457 or 2548.
Solidaz from NZ
The New Zealand show band Solidaz is the featured act (nightly except Thursdays, from 9pm to
1am) at Conway's nightspot in the Makati
Shangri-La hotel. There
is no cover charge and the usual drinks and snacks prices apply
Table bookings: +632 840 0884 or +632 813 8888 extension 7588/7599.
Concerts in parks, weekends
Manila has free outdoor shows in parks at weekends
– Paco Park Presents in Paco Park, Ermita, on Fridays (usually 6
pm); and Concert at the Park in the Rizal Park Open-Air Auditorium on
Sundays (usually 5pm). On some Saturday evenings,
depending on the weather, there are also ballet and other dance
performances in the parks. Information and schedules:
National Parks Development Committee website, or
phone +632 302 7374.
Women on
stage
“Women of substance” is the theme of the Tanghalang Pilipino
theater group’s upcoming 23rd season. Productions scheduled as
part of the program are:
• July 31, August 1-2, 7-9; 14-16, and 28-30 – "Lihis," an original
play by multi-awarded film and TV writer Ricky Lee about a mother, a
former activist and her daughter, a successful commercial TV writer, who
spend the night together waiting for news about the missing activist
husband and haunted by ghosts of the past. As secrets come into the open,
mother and daughter grapple with the issue of whether killing another
human being is justifiable. It’s directed by Joel Lamangan.
• September 4-6, 11-13, 18-20, 25-27 – "Apples from the desert," a
family situation comedy written by Savyon Liebrecht, an Israeli
playwright, about conflict between a conservative Jewish mother and her
independent minded daughter as they try to convince one another what love
and a meaningful life really mean. Director is Tess Jamias.
• September 18-20, 25-27, October 2-4, 9-11, 16-18, 23-25 – "Madonna
Brava," an adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's anti-way novel "Mother Courage."
Set amidst the armed conflict in Mindanao, it’s about a Muslim woman
forced to sell pirated DVDs and other marketplace ware to survive and feed
her family. Written by Don Pagusara, it’s directed by Nestor Horfilla.
• October 2-4, 9-11, 16-18, 23-25 – "Flores para los muertos" ("A
streetcar named desire"), based on Tennessee Williams’ play translated
into Filipino by the late Orlando Nadres, directed by Floy Quintos.
• November 2009 (schedule to be confirmed) – "Banaag at sikat," a
musical based on Lope K. Santos' novel of the same name, with libretto by
National Artist for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera and compositions by
Lucien Letaba. This production will be the centerpiece of the Cultural
Center of the Philippines’ National Theater Festival. It’s directed by
Lutgardo Labad.
• January-February 2010 (schedule to be confirmed) – "The Cherry
Orchard," a play by Anton Chekov about an aristocratic Russian woman and
her family as they return to the family's estate just before it is
auctioned to pay the mortgage. It’s translated by Rody Vera and directed
by Loy Arcenas.
Information: Tanghalang Pilipino, phone +632 832 3661 or +632 832 1125,
email ccptanghalan@yahoo.com, website
www.tanghalangpilipino.com.
Nievera & Fernandez, August 1
Philippine show business’s favorite yesteryear couple Martin
Nievera and Pops Fernandez are back together (on stage at least) in a
concert on August 1 (9pm) at Clark Expo in Pampanga.
Tickets: 525 to 2,625 pesos through the
Ticketnet website.
Theater on
tour, August
Tanghalang Pilipino, the resident theater company of the Cultural
Center of the Philippines, is on tour with “Pragres,” a musical adaptation
of the short story “Progress” by National Artist for Literature F. Sionil
Jose. It is onstage next in August at the Philippine
Normal University in Manila.
Set during the martial law years, “Pragres” is a satire on lazy government
employees and government bureaucracy. The cast includes Skyzx Labastilla,
Nar Cabico and the Dulaang Sipat Lawin Ensemble, directed by Abner Delina.
Information: Tanghalang Pilipino, email
ccptanghalan@yahoo.com, phone
+632 832 3661.
Nine Inch
Nails, August 5
The American electronic rock specialists Nine Inch Nails are coming
to the Philippines for a show. They’ll be on stage at the Araneta Coliseum
in Cubao, Quezon City on August 5 (7pm).
Nine Inch Nails (“Broken,” “The Downward Spiral,” “With Teeth,” “The
Slip,” etc.) have been on the pop charts since 1988 when the sound was
launched by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As the Grammy award-winning
group’s main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is
the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and usually assembles a new
band for each show tour that accompanies an album launch.
Tickets: 525 to 4,725 pesos through the
Ticketnet website.
Marissa
Sanchez, August 8
“Love is ‘STILL’ the thing” is the promotional tag of a show
featuring Marissa Sanchez with Jose Manalo as guest act at Music Museum in
Manila’s Greenhills mall in San Juan on August 8 (8.30pm).
Tickets: 824 to 2,060 pesos through the
Ticketworld website.
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