Serums are bestsellers at Kiehl’s
AMERICAN beauty brand Kiehl’s is ending 2019 by focusing on its bestselling serum line -- from a serum which corrects dark spots to a serum which reduces fine lines and wrinkles with the power of Vitamin C -- which its Philippine product manager says is an indication that Filipinos are now learning about what products will work for their skin type and needs.
Stuff to do at home (04/22/20)
The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) will stream the following recordings of its shows through CCP Online this week at 3 p.m.: Dustin Celestino’s Mga Eksena sa Buhay ng Kontrabida, directed by Roobak Valle (Virgin Labfest 14), premieres on April 22; and Tanghalang Pilipino’s Batang Mujahideen, written by Malou Jacob and directed by Guelan Luarca, premieres on April 24.
CCP realigns its programs to deal with the pandemic
IN LIGHT of the COVID-19 outbreak and enhanced community quarantine, the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) has realigned its artistic programs with the aim of protecting lives and livelihoods, and deliver content to Filipinos on alternative platforms.
Kiddie films air Sunday on GMA
GMA Network’s weekend film bloc, Kapuso Movie Festival and GMA Blockbusters, will be showing two children’s films on Sunday, Aug. 9.
Mr. Peabody and Sherman...
The write stuff
By Noel Vera
Sari Dalena’s Dahling Nick, some 20 years in the making, is clearly a passion project. If it has any virtues, they stem mostly from what one senses is a filmmaker heedlessly in love with her subject matter (writer Nick Joaquin was both a friend to her father and constant visitor to her childhood home); if it has any flaws they flow from the same abundantly adoring source.
No pandemic can keep The Pen from marking its 44th year
AS THE coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdowns in the metro slowly ease, certain industries are still tightly restricted, particularly the hotel and restaurant industry. But this can’t keep a good hotel down. The Peninsula Manila is bent on celebrating its 44th year with special promos and menus — and if people can’t come to its popular restaurants to dine on their specialty dishes yet, then the dishes will come to the diners.
Beauty behind a mask
JUST because vaccines are rolling out to some officials do not mean that the general public can be lax about their own restrictions.
Iconic French chateau garden restored thanks to US billionaire
CHAMBORD, FRANCE -- The chateau of Chambord, the biggest in France’s Loire Valley, will see its French formal garden restored thanks to a €3.5...
Emma Stone tops Forbes list of best paid actresses
LOS ANGELES – Oscar-winning Emma Stone capped a perfect 12 months on Wednesday as she knocked Jennifer Lawrence off the top spot on Forbes’...
Duchamp’s moustachioed Mona Lisa sells for $750,000
PARIS – One of Marcel Duchamp’s reproductions of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, on to which he pencilled a beard and moustache, has sold...
As croissants go global, France’s butter shortages bite
RENNES, FRANCE – Gone are the days of the butter mountains when the EU had to step in to mop up surpluses. A newfound...
Looking to the past for your holiday presents
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
Reporter
Auction
“Holidays at the Casa”
Nov. 18, 2 p.m.
Casa de Memoria Gallery,
Jupiter cor. Comet St., Bel-Air, Makati City
HOW MUCH are you...