Entertainment

It will be sad season for the local entertainment industry even if Susan Roces, film icon and Queen of Philippine Movies is laid to rest tomorrow, Thursday, May 26, 2022. The death of Susan lent a void in the vast space of the movie arts and sciences. Veteran actor and Roces’ fellow star in the ABS-CBN longest running action caper …

Cafe de Chinatown, the premier all-day dining outlet of Hotel Lucky Chinatown is set to welcome guests with a redefined spread of epicurean fetes and elevated gastronomic journey adhering to stringent safety procedures starting May 21, 2022.  The much-anticipated reopening of the outlet was masterfully prepared by Cafe de Chinatown’s culinary team with innovative edible masterpieces. Its new ala carte …

Approximately 70% of people worldwide identify as having sensitive skin, and sensitive skin continues to be a rising complaint that Dermatologists are registering from their patients. Environmental factors, lifestyles, and genetics all play a part in developing sensitive skin, but patients generally present weakened skin barriers, dryness, roughness, irritations, and tightness. The commonness of sensitive skin has prompted research into …

By Ibarra C. Mateo In full force, after more than two years of being closed due to the Covid19 pandemic, the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ board of trustees, senior executive officials, and employees welcomed the local media on May 4 to announce the CCP’s re-opening to the public soon.  “For the past two years, the CCP venues were shut …

By GEM SUGUITAN Every child has a mother. It could be the biological one, or somebody else who took the role of nurturing the vulnerable little tot until the child is ready to live on his or her own. With the evolving role of motherhood, even single fathers can be mothers, too!  Mothers do everything for the child to have …

Dry season and super hot? Siete Colores got you covered.  Anahaw fan-making is one of the oldest home industries in Lopez, Quezon. The forests of the town are replete with anahaw plant Levistonia Rotundifolia or Saribus rotundifolius which are made into different products, abaniko or anahaw fans among the major ones. More than 56 of the 95 barangays in the …

How well do you know Tagalog words? While it is true that it is the basis for having a national language and some Filipinos have it actually spoken at home, even Tagalog-speaking provinces have its own dialects which make it difficult for one word to be understood in another place.  Learn some “new” words which actually belong to the old …

Instead of the usual Mother’s Day celebration with her mom, Kathryn Bernardo added a new get-together party with virtual moms of various persuasions and with boyfriend Daniel Padilla.  It’s an occasion Kathryn paid courtesy call industry elders and reminisced her humble beginnings in show business with the guidance of three great persons she addressed as “mothers,” namely film and television …

Is there a difference between an actress performing a role of a mother onscreen and an actress delineating a character of a mom off-screen?  In this day and age of cyber supremacy, there are many ways to look at or we can say how an actor—one that acts; doer—acts and reacts as ma in any piece of life.  For instance, …

 It’s ironic that Lorenzo Antonio Leviste has castigated her own mom Loren Legarda a couple of days before the celebration of Mother’s Day because of his parent’s politics.  In his open letter-cum-opinion piece published in the online site Rappler, Lorenzo said “I need everyone to know that Loren Legarda lost her son forever because of this. Paint her bright red …