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Come and celebrate SM City Cebu’s 20th year anniversary with songs from past and old time favorites.

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This Friday evening, this recital at Paco Park is presented by the National Parks Development Committee, the National Broadcasting Network and the German Embassy, with host Thea Perez annotating the program.
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Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never:
Then sigh not so, but let them go
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into Hey nonny, nonny.

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                    [Title] => Jenine Desiderio, Cris Villonco and Robert Seña in SM’s 20th anniversary
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Come and celebrate SM City Cebu’s 20th year anniversary with songs from past and old time favorites.

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[DatePublished] => 2005-04-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133225 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1386314 [AuthorName] => Jess Q. Cruz [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 274612 [Title] => Who sleeps with whom? [Summary] => The title of Ray Cooney’s British comedy "Whose Wife Is It Anyway?" might have been "Whose Wife Is She Anyway?" for grammatical reasons. Or it could also have been "Who Is Sleeping with Whom Tonight?" because the substance of the play invites that question.
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This Friday evening, this recital at Paco Park is presented by the National Parks Development Committee, the National Broadcasting Network and the German Embassy, with host Thea Perez annotating the program.
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[DatePublished] => 2004-09-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136209 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1529529 [AuthorName] => Mons Romulo [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 210363 [Title] => A lot of laughs from Neil Simon’s ‘London Suite’ [Summary] => On its 86th season, Repertory Philippines first presented a comedy, Lend Me a Tenor, about the shenanigans of those singers whose name sounds like they were lifted from the menu of Pizza Hut and who risk injury to their larynx each time they do battle with their arias on the operatic stage. [DatePublished] => 2003-06-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133225 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1386314 [AuthorName] => Jess Q. Cruz [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 175350 [Title] => Burnishing the Bard [Summary] => Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never:
Then sigh not so, but let them go
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into Hey nonny, nonny.

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[DatePublished] => 2002-04-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133225 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1386314 [AuthorName] => Jess Q. Cruz [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) ) )
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