When in an interview on US television “The Bourne Legacy” director Tony Gilroy said that after seeing Jakarta and Saigon he decided to shoot his movie in Manila because it felt so “Bourne”-ish, he was just being factual.
ARNELL Ignacio is a man who wears many hats. He is a comedian on the boob tube and the airwaves, where he hosts game and talk shows on top of being news anchor in a radio network and member of the jury of a talent search in a TV show. Way before this, he established himself as an emcee by doing stand-up comedy at The Library in Malate.
If you come to visit the new chief government lawyer, he’ll welcome you to the “Office of the Surfer General.”
The community-based workshop aims to make the city a haven for creative writers The Valenzuela City Cultural Affairs and Tourism...
TRADITION? You have no idea. The DLSU Animo Squad, the pep squad of De La Salle University, held its annual initiation for new members last June 17 to 21, which it refers to as “Hell Week.” But this is all to test the dedication and will of the newbies, to see if they are worthy of carrying the name of the school on the battlefield, where they have to be the heart of the crowd supporting the school.
Unfazed by possible resistance from Church groups, Solaire Resort and Casino promised a “new tourism” for the Philippines when it opens its first casino-hotel complex on Saturday within the Entertainment City in Paranaque City.
“How’s the house outside? Are we very full? Marami nang tao?” It’s noon on a Thursday and actress Pinky Amador is getting ready for a different kind of show. Her students, the Theater Arts majors at Meridian International College, have spent the past week working on “MINT Knows Monique Wilson,” a lecture session featuring the theater actress. Monique was scheduled to arrive any minute.
Thirty years ago Dr. Bill Magee and his wife Kathleen, a nurse, came to the Philippines on a medical mission. They led a team that operated on children, and some adults, with cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial disfigurements in Naga City.
Since 1993, the Friends of St. Joseph and the Hospicio de San José have been propagating the devotion to St. Joseph through novenas and exhibits of icons.
Most of the challenges of being a vegetarian center on having an odd diet—one at odds with what most people dine on and consider normal.
