Entertainment

By Boy Villasanta The adage “an ounce of prevention is a pound of cure” should have been applied to the health condition of award-winning actress Jaclyn Jose when she was still alive. Regrettably, it was too late. According to one of his bosom friends, Jaclyn, Mary Jane Santa Ana Guck in real life, couldn’t have died untimely if she had …

The love affair between 2018 Miss Universe Catriona Gray and actor Sam Milby is the most ideal union there could be among celebrities and perhaps as ordinary mortals. Theirs is a perfect combination not only of beauty but intelligence as well. More than that, Catriona has been associated with socio-civic and nationalistic activities like promoting local products and fighting for …

Thanks to the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Film, Broadcast and New Media Division in continuing to bring back screen masterpieces of National Artists to perpetually educate and inspire the multigenerational audiences not only in film appreciation but evaluation if not criticism as well. “Cine Icons” help prepare the moviegoers to understand better the messages of the films across …

What happens when a celebrated visual artist cum filmmaker and an Information Technology (IT) expert collaborate with each other to produce an innovative digital creation? That we have to find out from movie director, scriptwriter and producer and prizewinning painter Bon Labora and IT entrepreneur Charlie Pena. A traditional art form in modern contents and an immersive tech fusion make …

By Boy Villasanta What a way to celebrate Women’s Month! For a progressive Filipino woman like versatile artist Gem Suguitan, winning the Grand Prize of the first ever Sining Filipina, an all-female art competition in the Philippines held recently at the SM Aura in Taguig City is like conquering, embodying and advocating the ideals of equality before the sexes. Because …

By Boy Villasanta The name Mike Feria, an entertainment writer has been quite popular in Philippine show business especially in the early 80s and 90s but he opted to leave the country and stay in the United States to advance his studies in arts and medicine. In the US, Mike sported his real name Mauro Feria Tumbocon, Jr. but still …

The public is invited to tour the new Urdaneta Philippines Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This new house of worship is the third Latter-day Saint temple in the country and the first in Northern Luzon. “This city, this locale, this property, this province, and the entire nation of the Philippines will never ever be the …

As if a romantic engagement between two people wasn’t enough, the engaged couple still held a party to announce to the world the officialdom of the fiance’s marriage proposal to his beloved. That was exactly what happened when future bride Mara Lopez and groom  Chandler Booth decided and carried out an engagement party in the US recently. Mara and Chandler …

The mirthful show business is painfully mourning the deaths of its luminaries recently. The bleak news started with the sudden demise of award-winning actress Jaclyn Jose due to myocardial infarction or a heart attack. While Jaclyn, Mary Jane Santa Ana Guck in real life, was being paid homage by the whole entertainment industry, veteran and iconic theater, film and television …

The Thai Trade Center in Manila, under the Department of International Trade Promotion (DITP) of Thailand’s Ministry of Commerce, announced  the remarkable success of Thailand Week 2024, held from February 29 to March 3, 2024 at the Glorietta Activity Center in Makati City.  This year’s event stands as a notable achievement, as Thailand Week was presented in a new venue, …