Digital ad fraud estimated to cost industry $7.2 billion in 2016
THE ADVERTISING INDUSTRY was on pace to lose $6.3 billion last year by showing digital ads to robots, according to a December 2014 study...
Arctic islands seek to charm visitors with winter cold, darkness
OSLO -- A Norwegian chain of Arctic islands is seeking to turn numbing cold and total winter darkness into a draw for visitors who...
Mired in the mire
By Richard Roeper
Movie Review
Sisters
Directed by Jason Moore
STARTING with Chicago’s ImprovOlympic in the early 1990s and continuing through Saturday Night Live and films and even...
Postmodern cautionary tale
By Johanna D. Poblete
Theater Review
3 Stars and a Sun
Feb. 4 to March 6
Tuesdays to Fridays, 8 p.m.;
Saturdays and Sundays, 3 and 8 p.m.
PETA Phinma...
Bennet sisters don swords Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
LOS ANGELES — Jane Austen’s classic tale Pride and Prejudice gets a somewhat different makeover for cinema screens with heroine Elizabeth Bennet armed with...
Beautiful music
By Joseph L. Garcia
Concert
The Amazing Brahms
Metro Manila Concert Orchestra
Feb. 5
Little Theater, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Roxas Blvd., Pasay City
FOR ITS 15TH Crystal Anniversary...
Do we really need salespeople?
Getting The Edge In Professional Selling
Terence A. Hockenhull
“Sir! Would you mind spending 5 minutes with me, participating in a survey?”
“What for?!” I responded.
After a couple of...
Why does this film exist?!?!
By Richard Roeper
Movie Review
Dirty Grandpa
Directed by Dan Mazer
IF I’D HAD ACCESS to the script for Dirty Grandpa before filming commenced, I seriously would have...
Genes show why bedbugs are tough suckers to kill
PARIS, FRANCE — Bedbugs, the notorious bloodthirsty critters which tormented the residents of New York City some years ago, have become genetically wired to...
Iloilo’s Dinagyang Festival gets Korean spice
Text and photos by
Louine Hope U. Conserva
ILOILO CITY’s annual Dinagyang Festival, held every fourth weekend of January, is similar to Cebu’s Sinulog and...
Milo plus Mom
Ads & Ends
Nanette Franco-Diyco
THE LATEST MILO TV commercial shows a mother’s supreme efforts to personally do everything she can, to help her son excel...
Fitness made easy
By Michael Angelo S. Murillo
THE BURGEONING local fitness scene is set to be boosted some more with the recent launch of a premium international...