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Celebrating 80 Years of Caring for You is a next-level concert experience happening on July 31, 2025, 5:00 p.m. at the Smart Araneta Coliseum. Get ready to vibe and dance as powerhouse P-pop sensation BINI and the legendary Gary V ignite the stage with their electrifying performances. Alagang Suki Fest 2025 is brought by Unilab and Mercury Drug, enabled by …

Ben&Ben, Jonathan Manalo, and Robert Labayen have collaborated for “Alay Kapwa,” the new theme song of the Alay Kapwa program of Caritas Philippines that aims to honor donors and encourage listeners to take part in the humanitarian movement.  “Through this, we honor those who give whatever they can, even when they have little,” said the indie folk-pop band, speaking as …

PASSERBYBy Nestor Cuartero Who or what are we as a people if we do not keep our traditions? If we don’t hand them down from generation to generation? Tradition preserves heritage. It gives us a unified feeling of belonging, a shared identity. Looking at the big picture, tradition serves as a bridge between past and present, a conduit where life …

Beloved global chicken brand Popeyes is now accepting franchising partnerships with local investors in the Philippines. With the brand’s steadily growing popularity, interest in the business has also gone up. According to Dustin Ngo, Marketing Director for Popeyes Philippines, “The franchising program was the next logical step. It’s a good investment opportunity and aligns with Popeyes growth trajectory in the …

A visual artist from Tagum City, Davao del Norte, flew all the way to Manila to receive the top prize, which came with a ₱100,000 cash gift in recently held awarding ceremony for the FFCCCII Tiktok Video Competition for young people. Mark Capareda was properly attired in a white Chinese-inspired formal dress shirt as he received his prize. Capareda’s entry, The …

PASSERBYBy Nestor Cuartero Piolo Pascual and Vice Ganda will be back when the 51st Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) reels off on December 25 this year. The two box office stalwarts are the headliners in two of the first four films announced as official entries to the annual movie festival on July 8 at Glorietta 2 in Makati City. Piolo …

PASSERBYBy Nestor Cuartero As war rages, then subsides, between Israel and Iran in light of current issues (nuclear weaponry, spiralling oil prices), we remember our business-pleasure trip to Israel in the mid-1990s. What better way, we thought, to mark that than by celebrating Father’s Day, June 15 this year, at this Mediterranean restaurant owned and managed by an Israeli husband …

BellissimaBy Isabella E. Cuartero Fernando “Nanding” Mendez is a creative professional with decades of experience in advertising and art direction. But to the Filipino-American community across the U.S. East Coast, he is so much more: a cultural pioneer, the thread that weaves communities together, and the driving force behind Fiesta in America, the largest indoor Philippine expo this side of …

PASSERBYBy Nestor Cuartero Today, I grieve for another friend, who just passed July 2. Highly misunderstood by the public for her frankness, might and feisty attitude, Lolita Solis was a force of nature, a super typhoon, like a weather disturbance (of the peace). She provided controversy, color and splendor to the entertainment industry where she reigned as gossip queen her …

PASSERBYBy Nestor Cuartero Six proved to be the lucky number at the Mister and Miss Lipa Tourism 2025 pageant held June 19 at the Plaza Independencia in Lipa City. June also happens to be the sixth month of the lunar calendar. The 9 in June 19 is also an inverted 6.   Newly crowned titlists, Kurt Mikhael Aguilar of barangay Bagong …