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Fil-Am visual artist Neil Folloso’s first major solo exhibit in the Philippines has been long overdue. As a matter of fact, it’s been years that Neil has conceptualized the ideal art show he has in mind but nothing has materialized yet until “Achara at Banana (Fickled shreded papaya or hearts of palm or coconut stalks),” a collection of his paintings …

After the success of Montview Residences, a development catering to the Economic and Medium  Cost market – offering affordable house and lot options via PAG-IBIG Financing and Bank  Financing, Eastern Visayas Land Realty Inc. is set to introduce Montview Heights – an exclusive  enclave of just around 90 lots with rolling, elevated terrain that will enable buyer’s to design and  …

Last year’s target of the Metro Manila Film Festival’s box-office returns was P500M. Did the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA), the festival main organizer in conduit with other agencies, achieve it? If we believed Romando Artes, Concurrent Head then and now Chairman of MMDA, the 48th MMFF had raked in the amount in the last few days of the fest. …

How do you call an inanimate object or a person who brings in a lot if good news not only to himself but to other people as well? Or people who mutually and beneficially inspire each other. Lucky charm, right? That is where the rapport between  award-winning actress and iconic fashion designer Albert Figueras exists. Max is one of Albert’s …

While newbie Gillian Vicencio, a Kapamilya contract artist, has already denied her involvement in the break up of KathNiel which is personified by Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla, there are still, on the other hand, accusations being hurled against her fellow ABS-CBN star Andrea Brillantes. Gillian did place her clarifications not only in social media but on cam as well …

What takes an artist to be nominated at the prestigious National Artist? What does it take to win the award? Who will be the next set of National Artists in various fields in 2025? How are artist-nominees selected? These are just few of the questions posed concerning and covering any qualified and deserving future National Artists? In an almost jampacked …

After eleven long years of romance, on and offstage, Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla are officially separated. This was confirmed by Kathryn herself. A brave Bernardo said that the split was caused by their stormy relationship. In her Instagram posts, though, Kathryn said that her love for DJ, Daniel’s pet name which means Daniel John, was unsurmountable. Half of her …

My film director Bon Labora–visual artist, naturalist, polymath, environmentalist, culture advocate, teacher etc.–and I were at the Xentro Mall in Tumauini, Isabela on an early Monday morning last week. We had an audition for the roles of three young daughters of a healer mother who lives in the boondocks. Our film, a collaboration between Agos Media and BVV8 Media Productions …

In spite of the many award givers in the Philippines from practically all fields, awards on films are still the most awaited, intriguing and mind-boggling of them all. It is because the nominees and winners themselves, especially the major ones, in movie awards derby made popular by the dominant star system or each of them owns up horde of fans …

Filmmaking in the post-modern world is a complex affair. Societies in all parts of the globe are getting more complicated and the quotidian onscreen is also as diverse that brings out the multiverse. Simplicity is beauty, we are told. There is beauty as well in the complications, off and especially on-screen that makes illusions more realistic. Linear filmmaking, though, is …