SEOUL — This month three South Korean companies and the Seoul police have had to pull ads and other content after men’s rights groups claimed that “small penis” symbols were used, insulting men.

MARKDOWNS of up to 50% off on a variety of brands are being offered at Rustan’s End of Season Sale.

THE ONGOING coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and quarantines have kept musicians cooped up in their homes, unable to perform for a live audience. While they have kept busy learning how to record, produce, and continue writing new music at home, the online community platform Kumu has made it possible for alternative/pop-rock/folk singers Ebe Dancel, Johnoy Danao, Bullet Dumas, Barbie Almalbis, Aia de Leon, and Kitchie Nadal to get together for a virtual concert. 

WHEN the Metro Manila Popular Music Festival (Metropop) returned in 1996 after a hiatus, the then newbie songwriter Trina Belamide wanted to compose a birit (belter) song that, according to her, audiences would applaud. That love song was titled “Shine.”   

NATIONAL Artist for Visual Arts Arturo Luz passed away on the evening of May 26 at the age 94, his daughter Angela Luz announced on social media.

AMAZON.COM, Inc. will buy MGM, the fabled US movie studio home to the James Bond franchise, for $8.45 billion, giving it a huge library of films and TV shows and ramping up competition with streaming rivals led by Netflix and Disney+.

ART LOUNGE Manila is relaunching in its new space at The Podium with the exhibit “Federico Alcuaz Unveiled: Select Works from the Alcuaz Family Collection.”

Filipinos have been seeking affordable and family-friendly domestic travel during the pandemic and hosting in Airbnb to support themselves and their local communities, according to Airbnb surveys conducted in 2021. 

THE PIG is usually the centerpiece of our festivals as Filipinos, but have you ever thought about where they came from?

“YOU are what you eat,” said American nutritionist Victor Lindlahr, as well as the likes of French lawyer Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin and German philosopher Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach. And if this reasoning is to be considered for the livestock consumption in the Philippines, then Filipinos might be in for some linguistic trivia or a few surprises.

TEA is usually a meditative drink, fit for relaxing or thinking about the day (whether it’s the day’s beginning or end). There was a lot to think about during Dilmah’s talk on May 21, or International Tea Day.

BARCELONA — Souvenir shops are mostly closed and only a few tourists gaze at Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia, a stark contrast from the hordes of visitors before the pandemic, but the board running Antoni Gaudi’s unfinished basilica hopes that will change soon.