The Metropolitan Theater celebrated its 93rd anniversary with a grand performance entitled “Samot-Saring Bida: Bodabil ng Pag-Asa” last December 7, 2024 at its very own stage in Ermita, Manila. Bodabil is the Filipino term for vaudeville, a form of entertainment popular in the Philippines during the 1910s to the mid-1960s. It was a source of mass entertainment in theaters, showcasing …
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Pablo Tariman’s second book, Encounters in the Arts, is due for release in January 2025. With introduction by writer Jose Dalisay, the book has 586 pages with profiles and reportage on the country’s leading artists from music, opera, literature and cinema. The book author with Cecile Licad after the March 19 Met concert. Leading the personages in music are Cecile Licad, …
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by Boy Villasanta Like the iconic Beatles, Hollywood action star, martial artist and Hong Kong Prid6e Bruce Lee is immortalized in the annals of global popular culture history as the finest actor on the kiss-kiss, bang-bang genre. Fans were devastated when Bruce’s life ended tragically at the age of thirty two in 1973. But the world never stopped adoring Lee …
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Exactly two days before the opening day of the 2024 Metro Manila Film Festival, the tension is getting higher as the showing of the ten official entries to the festival in theaters nationwide is awaited. Although the preps up to the main derby have been going since the middle of the year, the most exciting stages of the annual movie …
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Like a frame of a movie, the local entertainment industry, generally, is apparently full—fun and laughter, parties and socials all over, projects in all stages, fame and fortune, actions, not necessarily victories but downfalls as well and everything in between. Unlike a movie, though, the social field of the show business community lacks if not falls short of a strong …
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by Rod Escobar Cantiveros WINNIPEG, CANADA—The air was electric as Sharon Cuneta and Gabby Concepcion shared the stage at Regent Event Centre, their chemistry palpable, and when Sharon gazed at Gabby, her voice trembling with emotion, the audience was transported back to their iconic romance in the 80s and 90s, as Sharon said in a quiet grace: “When I lost …
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The Drama Queen is back. Award-winning actress Hilda Koronel is home from the US to celebrate Christmas with her loved ones and to meet up with the production team of her comeback film. According to Joji Villanueva Alonso, producer of Quantum Films, she is excited to work with Hilda. “I was such a fan when I watched her perform in …
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Tagaytay is a breeze. Lots of sun. Long, short drives. It even rains in the afternoon. Atop the mountain city, it’s the view downhill that makes Tagaytay exciting-—and expensive. Lots are said to run into millions along the ridge, where the view of Taal Lake and the world’s smallest volcano is majestic, to say the least. More than the topsoil, …
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The Quezon City Film Commission (QCFC) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) officially launched the Young Creative Challenge (YC2) Film Lab through a formal Ceremonial Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signing held December 12 at the Dengcar Theater, Mowelfund Plaza, Quezon City. This landmark initiative, part of the Malikhaing Pinoy Program, is set to redefine Filipino creativity in the …
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Like a fable come to life, AlBarakah, the new go-to name in authentic halal food in the country, was recently launched in the Philippines with an exotic Arabian Nights-themed celebration at Crowne Plaza in Ortigas Center. Dubbed “An Arabian Nights Feast,” the glitzy event had guests decked out in their finest traditional Muslim attire as they sampled AlBarakah’s stellar offerings. …
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