Entertainment

By Cherie Mercado Santos First of two parts In all those decades I’ve been dreaming of setting foot in southern France, I would never have guessed that my favorite place would turn out to be a stretch of road.

Mesfin Fekadu and Nekesa Mumbi Moody / The Associated Press New York—Will Beyoncé reign as queen of the Grammys, or will the pop diva be dethroned by newcomer Sam Smith?

Few Filipino albums capture the disorienting intensity of heartache as compellingly as Songs to Slash Your Wrist By (MunkeyMusic), composer/lyricist/musical director/actor/playwright Vincent de Jesus’s terrific, if underheralded, collection of 11 songs written over a 24-year period that were sung by some of the most talented vocalists in the Philippine music industry today.

By Alvin I. Dacanay This February, several local performing-arts companies will present their final productions for the 2014–2015 season. By many accounts, this season has been a strong one that featured entertaining, yet thought-provoking works and improved ticket sales, despite the government’s continued neglect of artists, performing and otherwise. If the productions set to open this month are any indication, …

Nightlife is fascinating in Legazpi City, which has lively places where one could go to, like videoke bars, music lounges and night clubs, most of which are found along a major highway in Barangay Bogtong, on the outskirts of the commercial center.

CHEF MOM / Adoree Chong-Uy The past few weeks have led us to a lot of questions about cookies, specifically drop cookies and rolled cookies. We have compiled some of them that we deem commonly experienced by a lot of bakers.

Fernando Modesto’s latest solo exhibition at MO_Space, titled Rewind: Drawings, Lithographs & Paintings 1983–2008, is a partial survey of the widely acclaimed artist’s drawings, lithographs and paintings that were created within a 25-year period.

Review by David Bauder / The Associated Press Bob Dylan has never called Shadows in the Night (Columbia) a Frank Sinatra tribute album. The idea seems nuts: One of the last century’s greatest songwriters challenging, perhaps, its greatest voice, on Sinatra’s turf. No wonder it was the butt of jokes before anyone heard a note.

By Alvin I. Dacanay Like many Filipinos, the Philippine entertainment community shared in the sorrow of the families and friends of the 44 men of the Philippine National Police-Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) who were killed in a clash with members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Mampasano town, Maguindanao province, on January 25, and several from the community expressed …

By Alvin I. Dacanay For many beauty-pageant spectators, one segment of the Miss Universe competition that they always have fun watching is the so-called Parade of Nations. In this parade, contestants introduce themselves while wearing their national costumes—or what they try to pass off as such.