LOS ANGELES — Joey would have opened a sandwich shop, Monica would be trying to outdo other moms at bake sales, and Rachel would have started her own clothing line.

“Wo ai ni,” “Saranghae,” “Mahal Kita,” are some of the many translations of “I love you.” In the course of five months, on-demand video streaming service iQiyi Philippines translates love through Asian romance stories for its Filipino viewers.

LOS ANGELES — Know your Gryffindors from your Dementors? Who was the Half-Blood Prince and what can you buy at Ollivanders?

DEMI Lovato now identifies as non-binary, and attributed their 2018 drugs overdose to years of suppressing their real self in order to please the entertainment industry, the American pop singer said on Wednesday.

NICOSIA — It may have won audiences in Europe, but Cyprus’s entry for the Eurovision song contest has raised hackles at home, scandalizing the faithful for paying homage to the devil.

IN CELEBRATION of International Museum Day, Ayala Museum will present “Where is the Filipino: An Interactive 8-Bit Tour Around the Philippines” on May 22 to 30.

WITH over 23 million followers, Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho (KMJS) marks another milestone as the most followed Philippine TV program on Facebook.

RIGHT before the pandemic closed down restaurants and encouraged dining at home, GrabFood introduced its GrabKitchen concept —  a “cloud kitchen” —  in Glorietta last year. In the aftermath of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), GrabKitchen is expanding. It opened a branch in Sampaloc in February, and will soon open two more in Malate, and Paranaque — the last two were announced in a press conference on Zoom on May 12.

HARRY Potter fans will soon get to clink glasses filled with “buttery, creamy, sugary, delicious” butterbeers at an official Harry Potter flagship store in New York City, which opens on June 3.

The COVID-19 pandemic is really getting out of hand.

ALTHOUGH I grew up in a lower middle-class family, with our widowed mother having to eke out a hardscrabble life for us, her two children, via her teaching and also her sideline of tutoring rich kids at our small, rented apartment unit in Quezon City, which was just a few minutes’ walk from school, my younger sister and I nevertheless had a blissful childhood because mom showered us with boundless love and she cooked so exceedingly well.

AMERICAN actor and writer Charles Grodin, known for his deadpan comic delivery in Broadway, film and television roles, died on Tuesday at age 86 at his home in Winton, Connecticut, the New York Times reported.