Lifestyle & Features

It’s never too late for the Philippine Movie Press Club (PMPC) to have injected new and revitalized thrusts and ideas to regain the credibility of its Star Awards.

Philippine creativity and the arts are front and center this February as the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) celebrates National Arts Month (NAM).

After 72 years in hibernation, the Catholic Church in the Philippines has revived the devotion to the Nuestra Seπora del la Salud (Our Lady of Health) Novena late last year.

By Boy Villasanta Nick Nangit who? Remember the classical pianist who performed a couple of years ago in exquisite Museum of History of Ideas in Padre Faura in Manila where controversial whistler-blower and now one of the managers of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) Sandra Cam and the late actress Dinah Dominguez were guests?

It’s not only the exclusive local entertainment industry, particularly the film section that mourns the death of prolific filmmaker Maryo J. de los Reyes but the whole of the viewing public as well.

As February is the “Love Month”, it is expected that most everyone would write about Valentine’s Day, romance and the whole giddy, saccharine sweetness of it all.

The familiar holiday spirit made itself felt once more as more than 500,000 people gathered at Lucena City in Quezon province for the recent Niyogyugan Festival, which signaled the coming of the “-ber” months. 

September is set to be more exciting as the Manila Pavilion Hotel and Casino kicks off the holiday vibe of the “-ber” months with some of Greece’s popular dishes, as well as the month’s premium room-accommodation promos. 

Top health-and-beauty store chain Watsons knows you’ve got so much on your plate that you sometimes forget to give yourself some TLC. You’ve been juggling work and play, trying to cover as much ground as possible that you tend to spread yourself too thin. This would eventually take a toll on your well-being.

Since it first aired on Philippine television in May 1978, the Japanese animated series Voltes V has become a significant cultural phenomenon in the country, figuring prominently in the lives of Generation X-ers, and even millennials.