Margaret Gil, a former colleague at the defunct Radio Philippines Network (RPN) Channel 9 public affairs show “Action 9” stirred up by interest in Agon. Agon who? Agon Hare, the famous host of “Project Nightfall” on YuTube who has millions of viewers, likers and followers. It was during the frenzy of the Philippine Blockchain 2022 at the Marriot Grand Ballroom …
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Superstar Nora Aunor is still phenomenal and controversial after all these years. Precisely. It is the Nora Aunor mystique that draws people to her as if the world has revolved back to its seventh decade ago. Imagine as frivolous yet commercially marvelous as selling homemade sardines, dried and smoke fish could be a source of controversy between her and adopted …
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Have you heard of the word “blockchain”? “Blockchain,” says Wikipedia, is a system of recording information in a way that makes it difficult or impossible to change, hack or cheat the system. It is a digital ledger of transactions that is duplicated and distributed across the entire network of computer systems. In other words, the contents, infinite of them, are …
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Must an entertainer give in to the clamor of fans to perform even if he/she isn’t feeling well yet? If anything untoward happens to the performer, is he/she liable in his/her action? Or should the blame be put on the insistent fans? This is still the question left hanging as singer Jovit Baldovino recently died of aneurism before he was …
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Contained in this 220-page book Reflections in Light and Shadow: An Anthology of Short Memoirs are 57 essays and 14 poems penned by 18 participants of Memoir Writing Class, Batch 1 & 2 conducted through Zoom for about 6 months under Professor Oscar Penaranda, a US-based writer & lecturer. Penaranda obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Literature & Masters in …
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May I be personal about the 14th Pandayang Lino Brocka Political Film and New Media Festival? Although it’s over, its relevance is very pressing in the light of disinformation, trolls and fake news prevalent in media especially in socmed. Pandayang Lino Brocka, abbreviated as PLB, is one film festival which reeks with progressive films on reel truth telling and documentation …
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People who love Queen of All Media Kris Aquino would always find time to pay her a visit no matter the distance during these trying times of her battle with the worst disease she has ever known in her life. Friend, colleague and ex-co-host on TV—as Kris’ sidekick in the defunct “Kris TV”—Darla Sauler recently came and saw Kris in …
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The Metropolitan Theatre, the newly renovated art house in Manila, was fully lighted in front and its glass-stained deco was colourfully glowing and beckoning film artists and guests to get to the hall to green light the 5th Eddys Awards of the Society of Philippine Entertainment Editors (Speed). At the lobby, ABS-CBN Entertainment Bureau consultant Mario V. Dumaual was running …
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The baby of Jennylyn Mercado and Dennis Trillo—the couple now showed once more the kid’s picture, this time in a mermaid costume. Jennylyn was happy and proud to have shared the rare photo material of their child. It is the mother’s instinct that prodded Jen to show her baby’s photo anew because she is so excited for the child. Baby …
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Ituro mo sa akin ang taguya sa bata, at nang hindi ka hanapin habang ikaw ay wala.(Teach me the lullaby so that the child will not look for you while you are away). As a child of working parents, I remember that either my father or my mother would read me a story until I fall asleep. As I was …
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