Editorial In 10 years, the Manila Metropolitan Theater, simply the Met, will turn 100 years old. It opened to the public on Dec. 10, 1931. From day one, it had been a cultural landmark at once local, even native, and global, an edifice built to house the Filipino proud of his place in the world. A
The Nuestra Señora de la Luz Parish Church and convent in Loon, Bohol, was among two heritage churches and 19 heritage structures destroyed or damaged by the powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck Bohol on October 15, 2013. Eight years after, the church, also known as Our Lady of Light Parish…
By Nick Tayag | Photos courtesy of the NCCA
“We step into the gloried past even as we take a step towards a radiant future.” That’s how National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Chairman
Arsenio “Nick” J. Lizaso encapsulates his manifold feelings about the imminent opening of the newly restored Manila Metropolitan Theater, which has recently been announced to the public.
Standing on Padre Burgos Avenue corner Arroceros Street, near the Manila Central Post Office, the MET is a 1930s art deco building that in its heyday before World War II was the center of the arts and culture, or what was then called “high society.”