Breaking Barriers
/If you had watched a play or two at Fort Santiago's Rajah Sulayman Theater, consider yourself privileged. The open-air venue located in the former barracks of Spanish forces was the perfect setting for original stage productions of PETA, the Philippine Educational Theater Association, which is the first national theater group in the Philippines. PETA was the brainchild of Cecile Guidote-Alvarez. So was Rajah Sulayman. For these achievements, Alvarez is tagged by PF Correspondent Rey de la Cruz the "Mother of Philippine Theater."
A young Fil-Am accountant who used to be a DJ was decisively elected to the post of Controller of the city of Los Angeles in last November's election. Kenneth Mejia's feat broke barriers and deserves to be saluted, as PF Correspondent Anthony Maddela writes.
How was it to grow up a colegiala in the late '60s? It was way before the wave of permissiveness permeated Manila society and makes for a funny, poignant story now. Veteran writer Neni Sta. Romana Cruz who went to St. Scholastica discloses the skeletons in their closets.
To cap off International Women's Month, let's revisit the stories of two Filipino women of different generations who made their mark in Broadway and Hollywood.
Enya Gonzalez played Cio-cio San in the 1938 production of Madame Butterfly and landed in the cover of Newsweek.
http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/the-bold-soprano
Marya Coburn was a bit player in Hollywood in the late '60s and had some interesting tales to tell.
http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/she-kissed-elvis-and-lived-to-tell-the-tale
To prepare for Holy Week, Watch Again movie star Judy Ann Santos-Agoncillo cooking her favorite Semana Santa dishes.
http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/the-happy-home-cook-holy-week-dishes
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In The Know
Today in Philippine history, March 23, 1895, Encarnacion Alzona, the first Filipina to complete her doctoral studies, a pioneering suffragette was born in Biñan, Laguna
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Budji Layug’s Next Big Vision: Community Design
https://vogue.ph/lifestyle/art/budji-layugs-next-vision-community-design/
This Woman Crawled Out of Poverty and Bought Her Parents a House at 26
Ana Lorenzana De Ocampo on becoming a food industry success
Hapag: A genuine love for Filipino food and the people you work with can make a big difference
