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By Boy Villasanta At the rate AlDub is going, it is bound to regain its foothold despite instabilities from all directions. No matter how unstable the state of popularity of the team, AlDub Nation isn’t saying die. It is still one of the strongest and toughest tandems in the local entertainment scene while the separateness of Alden Richards and Maine …

By Boy Villasanta Immediately after the 1986 EDSA Revolution, while ABS-CBN was rebuilding its studios in its reclaimed Bohol Avenue home, it had to temporarily house its news and production outfits at the Chronicle Building in Ortigas Center.

The 2018 Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, also known as BiFan, in Bucheon City, South Korea got in touch to assign me to write again the domestic film industry in the Philippines including the Top 3 box-office hits in 2017 in their book “Made in Asia,” a program meant for all Asian filmmakers and the region’s market trends.

There are already songs dedicated to the Overseas Filipino Workers or OFWs by the legendary folk singer Ferdinand “Ka Freddie” Pascual Aguilar namely “Kumusta Ka Aking Mahal?,” “Larawan” and “Pasko Ang Damdamin.” While these tunes border on the personal, they might be sentimental, saccharine, syrupy and mostly sensual and romantic that made them on top of the charts.

Film festivals thrive in the Philippines. They might not be figuratively dime a dozen but it could approximate or even outnumber the literal figure given the sub-culture film fest mentality of organizers of such events from across the land.

The 2018 edition of the Oscar Awards shown worldwide was described by writers and critics in different panorama. Some said it was exciting, some pictured it as the dullest, while others said the colors and glitters waned. But fanatics regard it as the year’s grand celebration of triumph for the victors and a motivation for losers to work harder and …

Legendary folk singer Ferdinand “Ka Freddie” P. Aguilar will celebrate his fortieth year in show business with a rediscovery of his music, past and present, among Filipinos globally.

If I were a poet gathering words and building images to tell a story about writer Marra PL Lanot’s book launch of her new collection of poetry in English, Filipino and Spanish, “Cadena de Amor,” it should be a montage of loves and scruples.

Filmmaker Pepe Diokno and writer and author Jessica Zafra travel the world searching for Filipino connections in their new travel show “The Flip Trip.” For its pilot season, the duo explores the picturesque cities of the Czech Republic and discovers the many interesting Czech-Filipino links.

In celebration of National Arts Month, alumni of the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts opened a group show entitled “UpDate: A UPCFA Dekada ‘90 Reunion Exhibit last Saturday, February 17, at the Art Anton gallery in Pasay City. It was a gathering of artists from different batches comprising the decade of the ‘90s.