Black Sabbath-inspired: Dance gets world’s first heavy metal ballet

Helen Rowe / Agence France Presse 04/28/2023

BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom—Pirouette, leap, air guitar, stomp. In a practice room in central England, dancers move gracefully in unison, combining classical ballet with new, heavy metal-inspired steps. Welcome to “Black Sabbath—The Ballet,” the brainchild of Cuban dance…

Lake Mapanuepe and the Aetas’ journey to education

ATTY. DENNIS GORECHO 03/28/2023

SAN MARCELINO, Zambales — Bird-shaped flutes made of bamboo that can blow up multiple sound like birds are being sold by 14-year-old Aeta Earn to visitors at Lake Mapanuepe. The small stick at the bottom controls the amount…

New York probes suffocation of black man hooded by police

Agence France Presse 09/04/2020

  NEW YORK — Several hundred peaceful demonstrators marched Thursday in New York’s Times Square over the death of a black man that police hooded and forced face down on the road, according to video footage that prompted…

Pope sends strong message to US Catholics after Floyd death

06/10/2020

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis called George Floyd by name, twice, and offered support to an American bishop who knelt in prayer during a Black Lives Matter protest. Cardinals black and white have spoken out about Floyd’s…

First Black Dragon branch in PH opens in Cebu

Marc Cosep 02/26/2020

Get ready milk tea lovers because Black Dragon is now in Cebu! Famous all over Asia for its black boba “bubble” milk tea, Black Dragon’s first branch in the Philippines is located here in Cebu, at the…

NBA players, referees to wear black bands as Stern tribute

01/04/2020

NBA players and referees will wear a commemorative black band on their uniforms for the remainder of the season and playoffs as a tribute to former commissioner David Stern, who died Wednesday. The league announced the memorial…

1st Cebu-wide Siloy Watch slated on March 30

PR 03/23/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The first synchronized island-wide Siloy Watch is set to happen at 6 a.m. on March 30, 2019 in seven towns and one city that are under the Central Cebu Protected Landscape. Siloy Watch…

Man smiles, says ‘Let’s rock’ before dying in electric chair

Inquirer.net 11/06/2018

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee inmate grimaced and waved goodbye before saying “let’s rock,” moments before he became the first man executed in the electric chair in that state since 2007, put to death Thursday for shooting…

One ‘black box’ recovered from crashed Indonesia jet

AFP 11/01/2018

One black box from the crashed Lion Air jet has been recovered, the head of Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee said Thursday, which could be critical to establishing why the brand new plane fell out of the…

NegOcc lawyers wear black arm-bands to demand justice for lawyer’s slay

Inquirer.net 08/29/2018

BACOLOD CITY — Members of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP)-Negros Occidental chapter are wearing black arm-bands for a week to demand justice for the killing of a lawyer known here for handling drug cases. The…

Barug Team Rama to sue Osmeña for ‘black propaganda’

Morexette Marie B. Erram 05/15/2018

A day after the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections took place, Cebu City Councilor Jocelyn Pesquera announced that the opposition Barug Team Rama party is planning to file criminal complaints against Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña.…

Wedding romance at La Relance

Rione Palacios 10/31/2017

CAll it one enchanted evening as a darkened stage seemed lit only by the glow of dangling boughs of night-blooming ivory orchids to the front, and hanging crystal chandeliers shining from beyond with the backdrop of a…

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