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.
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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.
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Painter Danilo Arriola shows his fascination and skill with chiaroscuro—that painting technique highlighting the stark contrast between light and dark—in his third solo exhibit, titled A Place in the Sun, which is now on view at the ArtistSpace gallery of the Ayala Museum in Makati City until September 6, 2017.
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By Gia Catimbang / Special to The Market Monitor If you’re planning to redecorate or refurnish your house’s interiors, prominent entertainment, fashion, lifestyle and media personalities are presenting worthwhile ideas on how to do that with their posh designs of select home spaces in the Urban Filipino Home exhibit, which opened at the Shangri-La Plaza mall in Mandaluyong City on August …
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A comic book featuring the illustrations of Filipino comic-book artists AJ Bernardo and Josel Nicolas has received praise in the Czech Republic, as well as from Academy Award-nominated actor Samuel L. Jackson, the central European country’s embassy in Manila said last week.
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By Gia Catimbang Creative-tools company Wacom Philippines recently introduced to the country new versions of its old creative tablets and pens to respond to the growing demand of artists here and overseas for these products.
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Bonifacio Global City (BGC) boasts of a wonderful mix of modernity and culture. Look at it the right way, and it would give you a proverbial window into its soul.
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World Barista Champion 2014 Hidenori Izaki recently visited the Philippines to serve as judge on the Latte Art Throwdown, held at the Coffee Project on Macapagal Blvd., Pasay City, where baristas from all over the country showed their creativity and passion for coffee.
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Ever since F.H. Batacan’s award-winning crime novel Smaler and Smaller Circles was published by the University of the Philippines (UP) Press in 2002, it has aroused the interest of some in the Filipino literary community to write in a genre mastered and long dominated by such Western names as Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Raymond Chandler, and Patricia Cornwell.
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The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) is set to launch its third and thickest anthology of Virgin Labfest (VLF) one-act plays—which includes prize-winners, as well as the works of a bestselling author-cum-spoken-word artist and the creator of the Zsazsa Zaturnnah graphic novels—at its Silangan Hall on July 6, 2017 at 6 p.m.
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