NIKE’S thrust of providing consumers with quality products by tapping the latest in technology continues with the launch of its new running and basketball shoes -- the Nike React Infinity Run and Nike Adapt BB 2.0 shoes.

TO celebrate its more than a century of existence, Tanduay recently collaborated with art gallery Secret Fresh to release a souped-up line of apparel.

IT ISN’T fair that physical beauty should be a given only to those that can afford the time and treatments needed to obtain it. KimRey Face and Body Contouring Lounge in Bagumbayan, Quezon City, (right outside Eastwood) makes an effort to change all that.

AMERICAN streaming service Netflix reports its membership grew by 20% in 2019 with its fourth quarter earnings growing by 31% year-on-year on the back of viewership of its original series such as The Witcher and You.

CELEBRATE Chinese New Year with a bang as the City of Manila, together with the Filipino-Chinese General Chamber of Commerce Inc. (FCGCCI), is holding a street party in Chinatown’s San Lorenzo Ruiz Plaza on Jan. 24 which will include performances from top Original Pilipino Music (OPM) acts including Sponge Cola and Parokya ni Edgar.

AMERICAN SINGER and K-pop star Tiffany Young is set to perform solo for the first time in the Philippines on Jan. 25 at the New Frontier Theater in Quezon City as part of her ongoing Open Hearts Eve Part Two tour.

THE THIRD week of January is officially the Philippines’ National Autism Consciousness Week, as per Proclamation NO. 711, signed by former president Fidel V. Ramos. As part of the celebrations, SM Cares, the Corporate Social Responsibility arm of SM Supermalls, and the Autism Society Philippines (ASP) will be holding the annual Angels Walk for Autism on Jan. 26 at the Mall of Asia (MOA) Arena in Pasay City, with gates opening at 6:30 a.m.

THE Department of Science and Technology-Science Education Institute has extended the deadline of submission of entries to the 4^th annual Indie-Siyensya Filmmaking Competition to Jan. 27.

THE CRITICALLY acclaimed documentary film The Kingmaker will be screened at the Cine Adarna in the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman on Jan. 29, 7 p.m.

LAUREN GREENFIELD’s The Kingmaker is a welcome addition to a too-meager genre of films: documentaries and dramas attesting to the abuses of the Marcos’ regime.

5 films to see on the week of January 24, 2020 — January 30, 2020

THERE will be performances of San Pedro Calungsod the Musical at the Cuneta Astrodome in Pasay City on Jan 24., St. Scholastica’s Manila on Feb. 22 and 29, and at the Music Museum on Feb. 25.