FRETTING ABOUT FROWN lines and crow’s feet can start early. In China, women in their 20s and 30s are spending on therapies to smooth their wrinkles — a growing trend Union Medical Healthcare Ltd. wants to meet.
THESE artists have, through the years, contributed images of artworks to be used for Art in the Park’s postcard invitations. This year AIP is reproducing signed limited edition prints from the 10 artists. They are:
KEVIN LOVE, who plays center for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), is clothing brand Banana Republic’s new brand ambassador.
WITH DUBROVNIK’S medieval promenade choked with floodlights, camera booms and a downed spaceship parked against a stone pillar, Desiree and Roger Hamilton had to dine in a more mundane corner of the 1,400-year-old city.
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
AS TEMPERATURES rise and the city begins to feel like one of Dante’s nine circles of hell, air conditioner temperature settings are sure to be adjusted to the coldest option.
Theater
Stepping Out
Presented by Repertory Philippines
April 1 to 24
OnStage, GreenBelt 1, Ayala Center, Makati City
By Angela Dawson
SISTERS
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have been bringing their goofy brand of girl-power humor to audiences since their days at Saturday Night Live (SNL) as cast members.
Ads & Ends — Nanette Franco-Diyco
This bank’s digital material is able to so effectively communicate with its target market without resorting to the conventional method of using bank lingo. And this was exactly what the BPI creative brief demanded: “to tug at heartstrings to communicate to the target market.” The target market here is mothers in the lower socio-economic bracket
Text and photos by Marifi S. Jara, Mindanao Bureau Chief
WHEN I WENT to Mati City, the capital of Davao Oriental province, for the first time in August 2012, there wasn’t much to do or see there really except visiting Dahican Beach, a long stretch of white sand with patches of rocky areas where the Philippine Sea on the side of the Pacific Ocean brings in waves ideal for skim boarding and surfing.
IT IS ESTIMATED that for every 90 depressives, only one-third are expected to seek help, one-third will suffer silently, while the other one-third will bear with the symptoms not knowing that there is something wrong.
EXTREMELY hot days are the new normal thanks to climate change, said former US vice-president and climate change advocate Al Gore, Jr., before an audience of 700 from the Philippines and 80 other countries. Mr. Gore was in the country on March 14 to 16 for a climate mitigation program.
