Entertainment

Despite being touted by some film-award observers and websites as a likely nominee, Brillante Ma. Mendoza’s award-winning Ma’ Rosa failed to advance in the foreign-language film race of the 89th Academy Awards, extending the Philippines’ quest to secure a spot in that category. 

THE Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) recently announced the winners of its 2016 Ballet Competition, held at the CCP Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (Little Theater) last month. 

Christmas may be the season of generosity, but it doesn’t mean we should go on endless shopping sprees and host furious binge parties every night to celebrate it. 

For Filipinos, December is always associated with the Christmas season. It is a time marked by longer nights and shorter days, as well as that all-too-familiar chill in the air. But while the cooling climate signals the start of the holidays, Christmas has always been the warmest season for Filipino families. It is a time when we all come together …

Worrying about what to give your friends and loved ones this Christmas? Take the stress-free route and treat them to heavenly baked treats that are sure to put them in a festive mood. 

Having a “nice” bathroom is no longer enough for discriminating homeowners who require the most sublime fixtures to be installed in that most intimate area of the house. Top luxury kitchen and bath-product manufacturer Kohler recognizes this, and shows customers how much it does when it unveiled its second boutique showroom and latest products inside the Designo Atelier 2 of …

Designer clothes, shoes, accessories, bags, and toys that were previously owned by top celebrities and their friends shall be sold, up to 80-percent off, at Caritas Manila’s first Celebrities and Friends Luxury Brands Sale at the Glorietta 5 Atrium, Ayala Center, Makati City on December 13 and 14 at 3 p.m.

After revisiting the Philippines’ Spanish colonial past with its twin ballets Ibarra and Simoun, which reinterpreted Dr. José P. Rizal’s novels Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not) and El Filibusterismo (The Filibus­tering), Ballet Philippines (BP) looked back on a more recent period—the 1970s— with Awitin Mo at Isasayaw Ko (Sing It and I’ll Dance), a (mostly) cheerful dance musical featuring …

By Alvin I. Dacanay Filipino-Australian actress Anne Curtis again ruled Twitter this year after the social-networking site revealed last week that she tops the list of the 10 most followed Filipino accounts, of which eight are owned by fellow celebrities, and that half of its 10 most influential moments of 2016 are enter­tainment-related events.

Bassoon player Adolfo “Pong” Mendoza is the guest solo­ist in the fourth concert of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) under the baton of Maestro Hermin­igildo Ranera that will be held at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ (CCP) Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (Main Theater) on December 16 at 8 p.m.