WALT Disney Co on Friday will release a film adaptation of popular young adult book series Artemis Fowl, one that its stars and director admit differs from the story written by Irish author Eoin Colfer.

OSCAR-WINNING Civil War epic Gone with the Wind was pulled from the HBO Max streaming service and reality TV show Cops was canceled as America’s reckoning with systemic racism extended to its popular culture.

THE 2020 editions of the Coachella music festival and its country music counterpart Stagecoach have been canceled due to concerns over a possible autumn resurgence of COVID-19 cases, Riverside County health office said late Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES — Organizers of the annual Grammy Awards on Wednesday announced tighter rules regarding conflicts of interest after claims that nominations for the highest honors in the music industry were rigged.

Tanghalang Pilipino, through the Pantawid ng Tanghalan fundraising project, presents the award-winning steampunk musical Mabining Mandirigma beginning June 12 on iWant. To donate, visit https://bit.ly/KTXPantawidNgTanghalan. For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/tanghalangpilipino/.

THE novel coronavirus that has effectively frozen our lives is thought to have animal origins — the virus may have spread from eating certain wild animals which were the original reservoirs of the SARS-Cov-2 virus which causes COVID-19 (scientists today point to either bats or pangolins; we’ll not get into the other conspiracy theories surrounding the spread of the virus). At the same time, the lockdowns and lack of public transportation have made it more difficult to acquire food than it was before the pandemic. As a temporary solution, some — this reporter included — have taken to eating meat analogues, or products made to resemble meat, to provide protein substitutes in the absence of meat.

HERE are a few recipes using meat substitutes, both from Meatless Philippines and other sources.

MILAN — Campari is testing selling Aperol in China as the Italian spirits group looks to its photogenic orange-flavored aperitif to revive sales hit by the coronavirus pandemic.

Anita Linda, considered by many to be the country’s oldest active actor, died at the age of 95 early Wednesday morning.

Anthony Kim Vergara’s Virgin Labfest (VLF) 2020 entry, The Boy-Boy and Friends Channel, follows four friends who make a new career as YouTubers after they lose their jobs as production crew members due to the untimely shutdown of their TV network. Boy-Boy, together with his friends, take on an insane challenge on their channel which changes their friendship.

FANCY a glass of Nosecco?

Swagat Indian Cuisine, now on its 17^th year of offering authentic Indian dishes, has, like all restaurants, been unable to welcome customers to its premises because of the lockdown.