ONE always has at least one can of tuna in their pantry, so it’s easy to overlook. Celebrity chef JP Anglo, who has presented at Madrid Fusion Manila, and is the man behind familiar restaurant Sarsa, has an interesting proposition: turning the staple into holiday favorites.

It took almost 10 months before I got myself back inside a restaurant for dinner, and it was worth the long wait as this special dinner would feature no less than the highly acclaimed Beringer Private Reserve wines from Napa Valley. The venue for this dinner event was equally enticing, as it was held at The Peak, the Grand Hyatt BGC’s signature multi-level food and beverage hub (composed of a grill restaurant, music lounge and a whisky bar), located from the 60th to the 62th floor and with the most captivating and highest view of the Metro Manila skyline.

AVAILABLE at City of Dreams Manila’s Café Society until Dec. 31 is a selection of Christmas treats crafted by master pastry chefs: Christmas fruit mince and mini pies, puto bumbong bread, stollens, fruit cakes, assorted Christmas cookies, chocolate and other dragées (sugar-coated nuts) and specialty breads such as the Chocolate and Hazelnut Babka and Croissant Chocolate Swirl Loaf.

LOS ANGELES — Tom Cruise let rip over an apparent breach of COVID-19 safety protocols on the London set of the new Mission: Impossible movie, telling crew members they would be fired if they don’t obey the rules, Britain’s Sun newspaper reported on Tuesday.

WHAT was ostensibly a webinar about shopping and gift-giving proved to be wrapping for Ballet Philippines’ gift for this season: a Facebook Live premiere with the cooperation of Rustan’s called “A Season of Giving” became a launchpad for Ballet Philippines’ Christmas productions, Christmas Fantasy and Maligayang Pasko.

SINCE all of us have been glued to a screen at one point or another during this pandemic, we’ve all contributed somehow to this year’s selection of top tweets — presented in a webinar by Twitter last week.

FOR the last 15 years, it has been a tradition at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) to hold Simbang Gabi when the Christmas season comes.

WHEN summed up in one word, the year 2020 according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary is

AS A video-sharing platform, YouTube has made it possible for many people to create content and share it with the world, and for a lawyer who cut her teeth in entertainment law, Marie Glen Abraham-Garduque saw YouTube as a way to not only share her life with her viewers but also inform them of their rights and answer their questions about laws in the Philippines.

Cleaners, a film anthology about high school cleaners (students tasked to clean the classroom and other parts of the school), was the big winner at the recently held awards night of the 4th Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino which was held online.

John le Carre, the British novelist who captured the cloak-and-dagger intrigue of Cold War espionage in best-selling books such as The Spy Who Came In From the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, has died. He was 89.

THE ANNUAL Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) 2020 will feature short stories by promising student-filmmakers from all over the country.