ABOUT 10 years ago, Grand Forks, North Dakota food columnist Marilyn Hagerty (née Hansen) stepped into an Olive Garden restaurant for the first time.

PARIS —  Film director Jean-Luc Godard, the godfather of France’s New Wave cinema who pushed cinematic boundaries and inspired iconoclastic directors decades after his 1960s heyday, died on Tuesday aged 91, his family and producers said.

BANGKOK — A hotel in the Thai capital set a Guinness World Record on Monday by stirring up the world’s largest Negroni cocktail, with more than 630 liters of the bitter Italian drink.

AFTER its first venture into the South, Shake Shack is opening its 5th Shack in the country at the SM Mall of Asia (MOA).

BEFORE online and smartphone games kept kids busy, there were physical toys and outdoor activities. Children’s TV programs and cartoons were only anticipated at their given timeslot. In the 1970s, the child who would become painter and sculptor Abdulmari “Toym” de Leon Imao, Jr. enjoyed Japanese animé and the early arcade games until they were censored and banned during Martial Law.

LOS ANGELES —  Media dynasty drama Succession and feel-good comedy Ted Lasso took the top honors at the Emmy awards in Hollywood on Monday, and a Squid Game actor landed a major acting trophy.

THIRTY years after the last building was built in the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) complex, the doors of its new black box theater, the Tanghalang Ignacio Gimenez, opened on the CCP’s 53rd anniversary, Sept. 8.

A MUSICAL play which banners peace through the intertwining of conflicts in a folk tale, stark social realism, and a family drama is how Tanghalang Pilipino (TP) returns to the live stage for its 36th season.

THE SALCEDO Auctions 8th edition of its marquee The Well-Appointed Life auction presents a selection from 13 of the country’s 17 National Artists for Visual Arts on Sept.17, 2 p.m.

NEW YORK — Austrian Symbolist artist Gustav Klimt’s masterpieces are coming to life in an immersive exhibit in New York, inaugurating a new museum that merges technology, art and music.

IT seems that Filipinos have been truly bitten by the K-drama and K-pop bug. The Philippines ranked fourth among countries tweeting most about K-content, according to a statement from Twitter.

VENICE — All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, a documentary about US photographer Nan Goldin and her fight against the wealthy Sackler family, won the top Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday.