It’s barely 7 in the morning, but already, the white-haired, barong-clad chair of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has slipped quietly into his office, a couple of bodyguards trailing him. Another workday has begun.
Word up: “Salarin,” Gloc 9’s duet with Bamboo off his 2012 album “Mga Kuwento ng Makata,” is a guttural cry of anguish straight from the Pinoy underbelly: a work of Tagalog poetry as authentic, as fully realized and as powerful as “Maynila: Sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag” or “Isang Dipang Langit.” Gloc 9 credits the [...]
Senator Pia Cayetano, main sponsor in the Senate of the still-controversial “Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Law,” ends her second term in the Senate in 2016.
What worlds are there left to conquer for Manuel V. Pangilinan? Having established himself as a household name in the country, Pangilinan (or MVP) means different things to different people. Is he a businessman, a sports patron, a philanthropist, or even a family man?
If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. But why would you want to, when it’s Solenn Heussaff and Isabelle Daza-arguably two of the hottest young models/actresses in the land right now-manning the stove?
The numbers have nothing to do with game statistics. Yet Kiefer Ravena sits hunched over the breakfast table, running his finger down the figures on the newspaper.
Someday, with age, Daniel Padilla could morph into a different kind of star, but right now, at 17, he just might be our first bishonen idol. Bishonen is Japanese for “beautiful boy,” and refers to a character type common in manga, anime and other forms of Asian entertainment.
His provenance nurtured his politics that spanned six decades of the nation’s historic past. Saturnino Cunanan Ocampo was born to a family of landless tenants in Pampanga in Central Luzon, the cradle of agrarian unrest, a background that predisposed him to a life of political dissent.
Kim Henares draws her .40 caliber STI pistol and fires one round into each target some 20 feet away.
The coach sounds a bit gushy when describing Anna Clarice Patrimonio. Yet he strongly thinks it’s not hyperbolic to say that Clarice could be the best player that Philippine women’s tennis has seen in decades.
The camera loves Lovi Poe, and she loves it back. We are shooting her at the Mind Museum grounds in Taguig, where Lovi’s dusky skin is set off nicely by the oxidized iron of the massive Lor Calma sculpture she is posing against in the afternoon light.
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