Entertainment

The heritage practice of weaving the piña of Aklan is featured in the 2025 wall calendar of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), an annual tradition cherished for being informative and promoting Philippine culture and heritage. The handloom weaving of the pineapple textile, estimated to be about two centuries old, is now being practiced by the Akeanon …

“FPJ’s Batang Quiapo” opens the new year with a bang as it marks another milestone with its 100th week on-air, while also ushering in its second year anniversary celebration beginning last Monday (January 6). The action-packed Kapamilya series, which premiered in February 2023, marked its 100th week with an explosive teaser featuring a slew of adrenaline-pumping encounters that are about …

By Boy Villasanta The beginning of the year marks the birthday celebration of Ihman Basas Esturco, Coco Martin’s ex-talent manager who has been a perennial balikbayan during this season to mark time and again his nth summers. 2025 is as significant and memorable for Ihman as any of his birthdays in the past.            It is because Coco was again around, this time, …

Apparently, the quality component in the current lineup to the 2024 Metro Manila Film Festival has improved compared to the selection in the past editions when critics and non-critics alike—which included this writer as an ordinary moviegoer—would complain about the poor quality of some of the entries. In the present eclectic menu, the films are indeed proudly festival worthy. Not …

Although Madam Suzette Arandela is a well-known feng shui expert and psychic of well-rounded possibilities in government, economy, ecology, religion, sports etc., she is also a popular seer about the entertainment field. Her multimedia appearances reveal her penchant for predicting events to happen this Year of the Wooden Snake which will commence on January 29, 2025. In showbiz, Madam Suzette …

How is it reimagining in a film the Philippine entertainment export to Japan in the 1980s and 1990s when the Japanese government was open to Filipino entertainers performing in the House of the Rising Sun? And how is it if the narrative involves Filipino transgenders? Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Brillante Ma. Mendoza immediately replied to the query. “Napakakulay ng mga karanasan …

Finally, the Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature Grand Winner in Full-Length Play, “Ang Bangkay” (2012) penned by Vince Tanada is now on the big screen. Aside from initial previews done two years ago, there was a limited special screening of the film held four days before Christmas Day last year at the Blackbox Theater of Philstagers Foundation in Calabash Road …

Will Lyel Rhemeia L. Mahusay jump into the bold bandwagon at 14? “Naku, baka hindi po payagan ng kanyang mga magulang (Oh! Her parents might not allow),” said Mar Arvin Agcaoili Bago, Lyel’s mentor. Her photo shows the young girl’s temerity to don a sexy attire. That’s only in a photoshoot. Mahusay loves dancing, modeling and acting. (Boy Villasanta)

Has it really been 10 years? Where did all those days, weeks, and months go? Time truly flew so fast we could now hardly remember what went on in-between opening day of Limbaga 77 in 2014 and the here and now. How many lunches and dinners have we hosted here, how many events have we covered, how many meetings have …

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 …