STARTING a business with a higher purpose had always been the goal for young entrepreneur Francis Carl Reyes. In 2017, he had a concept that sounded crazy — an ice cream business completely staffed by deaf people.

WHEN the human king observes a monkey save his troop from an accident on the mango tree they were living in, the human king learns in the end to not only how to be king but to be a servant leader from then on — that is the moral of the story which listeners’ learn from “Ang Haring Matsing” (“The Monkey King”). It is just one of the stories from the Jataka Tales which is now available as a 12-episode podcast.

THE ORTIGAS Foundation Library is offering conservation services for old maps, rare books, historical papers, family letters and documents at its new home at the McKinley Bldg. (above Unimart) at the Greenhills Shopping Center in San Juan.

OVER 100 works are being offered at Salcedo Auctions’ upcoming “Finer Pursuits: Important Philippine Art & Rare Collectibles” live and online auction on June 25, 2 p.m.

MILAN — Italy’s La Scala will open its 2022-23 season with a performance of Boris Godunov, a Russian-composed opera performed by Russian artists, with no plans for a cultural boycott despite the invasion of Ukraine.

THE FAMILY of the author whose article inspired the 1986 Tom Cruise movie Top Gun on Monday sued Paramount Pictures for copyright infringement over this year’s blockbuster sequel Top Gun: Maverick.

NEW YORK — A federal judge on Monday rejected Kevin Spacey’s bid to dismiss a civil lawsuit in which fellow actor Anthony Rapp accused the Oscar winner of making an unwanted sexual advance during a party at Spacey’s Manhattan home in 1986, when Mr. Rapp was 14.

LOS ANGELES — Top Gun: Maverick has the box office sizzling... again.

THE STUDIO behind such local films as Heneral Luna and Goyo: Ang Batang Heneral has secured the exclusive local distribution rights to the surprise hit multiverse comedy, Everything Everywhere All at Once.

COMEDIAN and former Wowowin variety show host Herlene Budol and actor Joseph Marco star as a couple in Puregold Channel’s romantic comedy, Ang Babae sa Likod ng Face Mask.

ACTORS Bea Alonzo and Alden Richards are the new ambassadors for the food and beverage company Century Tuna.

THE LIVES and struggles of the LGBTQIA+ community is the focus of the special screening of selected Cinemalaya and Gawad Altenatibo films that will be shown on June 10, at 2 p.m., at the Tanghalang Manuel Conde.