The place of the regional in contemporary Philippine art
FILIPINO artists play a role in presenting and educating the public about our history and identity.
To support this role, the Philippine Contemporary Art Network...
The woman behind the question ‘Masarap Ba?’
By Joseph L. Garcia, Reporter
I WISH I had 176,000 followers on Instagram, with the list brimming with food writers and Manila’s most famous chefs...
NBA Store Philippines’ run comes to an end
THE RUN of the standalone NBA stores in the country will cease at the end of August, the National Basketball Association office in the Philippines announced last week.
Why we should not ban liquor during ECQ
By Sherwin A. Lao
UNLIKE countries like South Africa and even Greenland, the Philippines is not technically under a total liquor ban during this COVID-19 crisis. However, it feels like it is. When President Duterte imposed the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ, or a nicer way of saying “lockdown”) for Luzon on March 16 amid the threat of the pandemic, the actual guidelines do not include a call for a total liquor ban.
Ang Huling el Bimbo 2.0: same story, better narration
RESORTS WORLD MANILA’s musical Ang Huling El Bimbo will return in March and this does not only mean giving a chance to those who missed it the first time around, more than this it is an opportunity to tweak the script and some songs, and to improve character development.
K-pop singer gets 6 years for rape, sharing sex videos
A SOUTH KOREAN court sentenced a K-pop musician to six years in prison on Friday for raping a woman and distributing a video capturing the act in a case that drew attention to the darker side of the country’s lucrative entertainment industry.
A small person in a big role
SOME actors can work their entire lives and never get anything bigger than a supporting role, but sometimes all it takes is one breakout role.
TV5 to buy entertainment content, enter into block timing
AFTER several years of not producing entertainment content and banking on sports and news for the network’s content, TV5 is poised for a comeback with a new setup: buying shows from producers such as APT Entertainment and having its pay TV sister channel Cignal TV block time in the network.
Ramon Santos: A much-needed boost for contemporary music
Ramon P. Santos and Francisco F. Feliciano, National Artists for Music.
Words Pablo A. Tariman
With the proclamation of composers Ramon Santos and Francisco Feliciano as...
Four poems by Cirilo F. Bautista
These poems, first published here, will be collected in a future anthology.
MMFF 2018 breaks box office record
THE 44th Metro Manila Film Festival drew to a successful close on Jan. 7, with the festival’s chairman announcing that they had not only surpassed last year’s gross but also recorded the highest ever take in the film festival’s history.
Actor, director Eddie Garcia, 90
LEGENDARY actor/director Eddie Garcia died as a result of an accident while doing what he loved most — acting — after suffering a neck fracture on the set of his new television series. He was 90 years old.