Senior cardinal asks Vatican to stop displaying art by priest accused of abuse
VATICAN CITY — A prominent cardinal has asked Vatican authorities to stop displaying the artwork of a Jesuit priest accused of abusing nuns and...
Arts & Culture (07/03/24)
FILIPINO-American sisters Grace and Mary Talusan, born in the Philippines, and Liza, born in the USA, grew up in America and seldom returned “home,” a word their migrant parents used interchangeably to mean Manila, where their clans lived.
Britain’s Ian McKellen will not return to role after stage fall
LONDON — British actor Ian McKellen, 85, will not return to the role of John Falstaff in a tour after he fell off a...
Actor-director Manny Castañeda, 69
ACTOR-director Manny Castañeda has passed away, according to his close friend, Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) director Jose “Joey” Javier Reyes, who...
1MDB fugitive to return Warhol, Monet art in new DoJ deal
THE US Justice Department reached a deal with fugitive Low Taek Jho and his family to get back more than $100 million of assets...
Japan imposes new fees on Mount Fuji climbers to limit tourists
FUJIYOSHIDA, Japan — Park rangers on Japan’s sacred Mount Fuji officially started this year’s climbing season about 90 minutes before sunrise on Monday, levying...
Albania’s best-known novelist Ismail Kadare, 88
BELGRADE — Ismail Kadare, an acclaimed Albanian novelist and playwright who defied his country’s longtime Communist rulers through his writing, has died in a...
Eddie Murphy’s ‘every man’ hero returns in Beverly Hills Cop sequel
LOS ANGELES — After more than a decade of superheroes saving the world on the movie screen, Eddie Murphy is bringing back the character...
Hollywood pushes climate stories and solutions toward center stage
IN A one-on-one conversation about climate change, United States Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm talked about growing clean energy production. But her counterpart...
The orchestra takes on K-Dramas
ANYBODY who is into Korean dramas, or K-Dramas, would have enjoyed OST Symphony: K-Drama in Concert, performed by the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) at the Metropolitan Theater in Manila.
Inside Out 2 hits $1 billion at global box office
PIXAR movie Inside Out 2 has crossed the $1-billion mark at the worldwide box office in less than three weeks of release, reaching that...
TikTok spotlights LGBTQIA+ content creators’ personal journeys
THROUGH the influential short-form video platform TikTok, perspectives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, asexual plus (LGBTQIA+) Filipinos are now more visible in...