Entertainment

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By Alvin I. Dacanay  Four months after winning the Golden Lion at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, Lav Diaz’s revenge drama Ang Babaeng Humayo (The Woman Who Left) continues to reap accolades abroad, the latest of which are three nominations at the 11th Asian Film Awards (AFA). 

Top telecommunications and digital-services provider Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) and mobile leader Smart Communications, together with broadcast station TV5, bring the much anticipated 65th Miss Universe Pageant closer to Filipinos everywhere through the digital and social-media services running on the country’s most extensive and robust fixed-line and wireless networks. 

Los Angeles—Hollywood A-listers, including Academy Award winners Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, recently participated in a farewell video honoring outgoing United States President Barack Obama.

Violinist Diomedes Sazara Jr. is set to join the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO), under the baton of Maestro Yoshikazu Fukumura, in its first concert of the new year, which will be held at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ (CCP) Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (Main Theater) on January 20 at 8 p.m. 

One of the most exclusive events that are part of the run-up to the 65th Miss Universe Competition will happen at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City on January 16, and it’s called the Governor’s Ball. 

National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) OIC Executive Director Marichu Tellano and National Youth Commission (NYC) Chairman Aiza Y. Seguerra recently signed a memorandum of agreement to strengthen the partnership between the sectors they represent. 

To begin the new year, the Ayala Museum’s ArtistSpace will present Panata (Vow), the solo exhibition of Cebu-based artist Jun Impas that is scheduled to run from January 22 to February 2. 

If there’s a definite bright spot in what many people, including myself, consider an awful year for the Philippines and the world, it’s the fact that Filipino films earned unprecedented acclaim in film festivals here and overseas in 2016.

Six years after debuting to critical and audience acclaim, the Philippine Educational Theater Association’s (Peta) hit comedy-musical Care Divas returns once more to the Peta Theater Center to open its 50th year with 50 shows from February 3 to March 19.