The royal family seems to be making room for a new member: actress Meghan Markle, who has been dating Prince Harry since 2016.
I had an adrenaline rush covering the wedding of doctors Hayden Kho and Vicki Belo in Paris last week, filing stories online, for print, and posting on social media—several times a day. (It wasn’t easy to do all these in evening wear, but kitten heels do some service to lifestyle journalism—when you can’t get away with dressy sneakers.)
Asked about Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during her onstage interview at last year’s Miss America pageant, Savvy Shields turned heads on the judge’s panel and across the country by offering some advice to both political parties: Stop arguing and start compromising.
Treb Monteras managed to insert his personal sentiments while accepting the six awards his film “Respeto” won at the 2017 Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival: Stop the violence, respect human rights.
Edgar “Par” Sallan—younger brother of my Jingle Chordbook colleague Edwin Sallan—is one of only a few club DJs who have extensive knowledge of past and present music. His Tuesday night gigs at Borough in The Podium are a balm for tired nerves, so engrossing that I end up going home at daybreak.
True to her commitment of raising HIV/AIDS awareness, Miss Universe 2015 Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach had herself tested during a charity event in Taguig City on Wednesday.
I first heard about Linkin Park in 2001 when I was a kid in sixth grade, in Xavier School, still listening to Backstreet Boys, Westlife, Moffats and other bands. I was this huge kid who spoke with a soft voice, didn’t have too many friends, didn’t excel in school, didn’t participate in sports, was bullied because of my family name and, most of all, was already exposed to things I didn’t understand at the time. When I first heard their song “Crawling” and “Papercut” through classmates, I’d already written the band off as being too rock for me. That was until toward the end of the year when heard their song “In the End.”
It is now clear that Justin Bieber has decided to cancel the remaining 14 dates of his ongoing “Purpose” world tour due to exhaustion.
Prominent women at the BBC want the broadcaster’s gender pay gap to be resolved immediately rather than in several years. TV personalities including Clare Balding, Victoria Derbyshire and others wrote an open letter Sunday to the BBC’s top manager saying that plans to resolve the company’s gender pay gap must be accelerated.
Back in college at La Salle Taft in the 1980s, “Jake” was a generic term of endearment among certain barkada, used interchangeably with chong and pare. So, when these friends and their acquaintances bump into each other on campus, one of them is likely to say, “Hey, Jake, ayos ba tayo diyan?”
