CELEBRITY chef, restaurateur, and international award-winning book author, chef Myke “Tatung” Sarthou had quite an interesting St. Patrick’s Day (March 17). He was marrying European beef with deep Filipino influences, and we wanted nothing else but to reach through our screen during a Zoom “cook-along” with Bord Bia (Bord Bia – the Irish Government Food Board).

A SMALL house, a fisherman’s boat, 16 plastic bottles, and fishing nets are all found within the performance area of Layeta Bucoy’s Doc Resureccion: Gagamutin ang Bayan, Tanghalang Pilipino’s (TP) first production after two years of coronavirus pandemic lockdowns. This month, the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ (CCP) resident company returns with a filmed version of the one-act play.

PERFORMANCES scheduled to be held at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) from March 16, 2020 to Oct. 2021 had to be postponed, canceled, or rescheduled because of the coronavirus pandemic. This displaced a significant number of artists, theater workers and technicians, carpenters, painters, and seamstresses.

CARTOONISH images of a little girl and a dinosaur, their bodies morphed together, are hung on pastel pink walls; at the other end of the gallery, the walls are painted gray and hung with acrylic paintings and watercolor portraits of a brooding young boy.

THE 1990s were the decade of alternative music and grunge fashion, massacre movies, and film fest scandals, the mainstreaming of gay speak, and the rise of the OFW-powered economy, and we read all about these in Jessica Zafra’s newspaper column, “Twisted.”

LAS VEGAS — Multi-genre artist Jon Batiste won album of the year and R&B duo Silk Sonic took two of the top honors at a Grammy awards ceremony that featured a surprise appeal for support from wartime President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.

BEAUTY Queens Pia Wurtzbach, Bianca Guidotti-Santos, and Carla Lizardo began a friendship seven years ago when they were co-candidates at the 2014 Binibining Pilipinas pageant. They had a goal of doing projects together and made various attempts to do so. But it was only during the lockdown in 2020 when they had the time to pursue a joint passion project — a pageant-centric podcast named Queentuhan.

THIS year was shaping up to be another busy one for Bruce Willis: three films released already, with another eight in post-production. Willis has become an astonishingly prolific actor, wisecracking his way through direct-to-video genre releases and joining that elite band of 1980s and 1990s multiplex superstars (Nicolas Cage, John Travolta, Sylvester Stallone) whose box office capital had flatlined.

PCCW’s leading pan-regional OTT video streaming service Viu is the number one premium video on demand (VOD) platform in terms of the number of Monthly Average Users (MAUs) in Greater Southeast Asia, following the latest Media Partners Asia (MPA) AMPD Research report for Q4 2021, released on March 28.

LAS VEGAS — Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, who broke through gender barriers in the 1960s and 1970s to help define an era, sang on stage for the first time in years on Friday at a musical tribute to her life by artists spanning genres and generations.

LOS ANGELES — Morbius, the latest comic book adventure from Sony’s Universe of Marvel Characters, opened in first place at the North American box office, though ticket sales were considerably softer than recent superhero blockbusters.

WHEN we think of Philippine textiles, we usually think of them as seen on the indigenous people who make them, in museums, or worn at absolutely formal occasions. But Studio Süg founder Bea Constantino has proven time and time again that Philippine textiles can be integrated into daily life, as seen in her own outfits.