FILIPINA rock singers Aia de Leon, Barbie Almalbis, and Kitchie Nadal will come together for a Facebook Live concert on May 1, 8 p.m., to raise funds for employees and workers of live music venues in Metro Manila.

WORKING from home (WFH)doesn’t necessarily mean you get to finish earlier than usual.

AS the quarantine continues, people and organizations likewise continue their efforts to help those affected by the lockdown and those manning the frontlines of the pandemic. Here’s another list of people doing good.

WHAT was supposed to be a clean, honest game -- a promo to bring the sales up in McDonald’s in the US and Canada, and possibly grant some people a million dollars, a Dodge Viper, or a house -- turned out to be anything but as some managed to game the McDonalds’ Monopoly system and run a years-long fraud. That is the crux of HBO Go’s McMillion$.

The Maison Cartier launches www.cartierwatchmakingencounters.com, an international consumer website for this year’s watchmaking novelties, on April 25.

LOCKED down and stewing in your home, it can be something of a relief to look at the works of Sergio Leone, particularly the later titles. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly; Once Upon a Time in the West; Duck, You Sucker!; and Once Upon a Time in America have that expansive feel of a tale told of long ago, a pipe dream concocted by your favorite nutty uncle by the fireside, with the other kids gathered round listening with rapt expressions.

FACED with an unprecedented global health crisis that has frozen businesses around the world, Netflix Inc. is reassuring customers (and investors) that it won’t run out of new TV shows or movies anytime soon.

DURING these recent weeks of lockdown, we’ve solved logic puzzles based around household objects — light switches and chessboards.* Now it’s time to try another genre, one of my personal favorites: wordplay.

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.

IT is more than a month into the Luzon-wide quarantine and while many people still go to work as essential workers and frontliners, even more employees have had to adjust to a work from home lifestyle where video conferencing is the name of the game.

ALREADY a hotbed of the new and cutting edge in theater, the 2020 Virgin Labfest theater festival does not disappoint this year. Instead of cancelling outright in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the festival will stage its new “untied and untested” plays online for the first time. The use of green screens, recorded material, and meeting platforms are all being considered in this unique staging of the festival.

During times of stress, an option for many people in normal times would be to go to a resort such as The Farm at San Benito. Under the extraordinary circumstances of a global pandemic however, we’re supposed to stay at home. Dr. Marian Alonzo, Medical Chief of The Farm at San Benito, gave a list of tips on what one can do to destress at home.