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By Alvin I. Dacanay  Last Wednesday, award-winning actress and singer Agot Isidro marked another personal milestone—her 50th birthday—not by throwing a grand and celebrity-studded party, but by having a quiet breakfast with her family at a low-key restaurant in Marikina City, where she grew up. 

The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) is set to hold Winds and Jazz: The CCP International Band Festival at the CCP Main and Little Theaters, Silangan Hall, and Harbour Square from July 26 to 31.

An awareness of allergies is the first way to defeat them and to stop them from limiting what you can do. Keeping this in mind, antihistamine medicine Claritin held what it called the #ClaritinAllergy101 Session with television personality and Claritin Ambassador Iya Villania-Arellano at Cafe Naya at The Palace, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City, on July 13.

Makati Shangri-La, Metro Manila’s premiere luxury hotel, invites guests, including families and business travelers, to enjoy a tropical retreat in the heart of the city, even in the middle of the rainy season, with “The Grand Getaway: La Filipiniana” vacation package, which will last until next month. 

By Alvin I. Dacanay Filmgoers can expect a bigger Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival next month after the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) announced the return of its full-length feature category after a one-year absence, and added new sections and a new venue in Cebu City. 

The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO), the country’s leading professional orchestra, made history when it performed to a full house at the world-renowned Carnegie Hall in New York City on June 18. 

Boston—Scientists are developing a new mobile software that can accurately identify where a person is looking in real time, an advancement that may lead smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices to be controlled by eye movements. 

Keep your Apple devices in great shape as Power Mac Center’s Apple-Authorized Service Provider offers a complete iPad and Mac maintenance program called “Tune Up Express” this July. Under this program, customers can avail themselves of total tuneups for Apple devices at special discounted rates of up to 60 percent. 

When business trips are crammed with meetings, field work, and ocular inspections, Richmonde Hotel Ortigas can provide the perfect and most convenient way to unwind at the end of the day and before you settle in for the night. 

THE Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) opened last Thursday artists Jippy Pascua and Dennese Victoria’s latest exhibit Myth, described as the result of “a survey of years’ worth of photographs,” at its Pasilyo Victorio Edades.