Entertainment

The famed “Performatura,” a festival of written words and performances initiated by literary giant Vim Nadera with the joint collaboration of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), is here again.  After the global invasion of the deadly COVID-19 when entertainment and cultural shows were all put on hold and the viewing public was deprived of diversion and information sourced …

Canipan-on 2019 Foundation, Inc., an organization composed of locals from Canipan-on, a small community in Hinunangan town in Southern Leyte, relentlessly works for the betterment of said place and its needy citizens through various humanitarian activities since its founding in 2019. Photo shows its new set of officers who were inducted in Dasmarinas, Cavite on March 25, 2023. They are …

It was the last quarter of 2021 when I learned that internationally acclaimed director Brillante Ma. Mendoza was doing a film not on his usual themes and topics on sex, drugs and violence but a food movie.  I got to know it when I called him and he said that he came all the way from Pampanga to shoot a …

It’s official.  Award-winning actor Richard Quan is tapped to play the protagonist in the biopic of Edwin Jubahib of Tagum City, the Governor of Davao del Norte.  After considering John Arcilla who, according to a filmmaker, commanded a whopping P5M talent fee to portray the colorful character and his exploits, the producer of the still untitled film project decided to …

One of Sibalom’s tough lolas takes a break from her farming duties – and her thick, smoking tobacco. (Gregg Yan / DENR-UNDP-BIOFIN) “We have planted over 10,000 seedlings in those mountains,” gestures Villa Abagon, a 70-year old Forest Warden from Barangay Cabladan in the highlands of Antique. Heavily-denuded after the Second World War, the Sibalom Natural Park slowly regained its …

Much has been said about Liza Soberano’s vlog and the contents like revelations of her past that make people, particularly her colleagues, react to the diverse issues and facts in more ways than one. There are pros and cons on the case in point. Critics say she doesn’t observe and exercise the value of “utang na loob (debt of gratitude),” …

It has been more than a month after the launch of “SekSinema (Gender Images in Philippine Sex Cinema Enfolding Pandemia)” authored by this writer at the Philippine Expressions Bookshop in 479 W. 6th Street, San Pedro, California 90731 and it has still resonated not only abroad but in the local shores as well. Even if it was raining the proverbial …

Honestly, it was my first time to her about Philippine Expressions Bookshop in the US when I requested fellow Lopenze—a native of Lopez, Quezon—Rod Cantiveros who is based in Canada to connect me to Linda Nietes-Little who he said is a friend and a fellow Thomasian (graduate of the University of Santo Tomas). While Rod got his Bachelor of Literature …

Actor-politician’s Alfred Vargas’ enterprising spirit is on the roll anew. After producing “Supremo,” “Tagpuan” etc., Alfred is ready to bankroll on a very gigantic big screen project which has a casting coup. “Pieta” which is a new screen version of the visual arts adaptation of the religious narrative of the sorrowful Virgin Mary clasping in her arms bloodied son Jesus …

New city developments are poised to reshape a new future in design and construction with more focus on health and wellness and green spaces. Today, people’s standards of living have been reshaped by the health pandemic. From digitalization and advancements in technology and collaboration tools, the current situation paved for new ways of thinking with people embracing the new normal, …