Nanay” is cool about being photographed with the santos that populate her office. That is where she prefers to pose in the shoot. We’re surprised to see the many religious icons. “That’s only a few,” says granddaughter Trina Licauco Alindogan. “There are more of them at home.”
Are we going through another Teri Hatcher moment? Cyberspace was once more abuzz late last week as angry Filipinos made their sentiments known over a supposedly racist remark Hollywood actress Lucy Liu made on “The Late Show with David Letterman.”
If the walls of the old Senate Session Hall in the former Legislative Building in Manila could speak, imagine the stories they would tell.
The Red Charity Gala has once again delivered a winning combination of stunning fashion, fabulous food, flowing wine and champagne, generous friends, and, best of all, lots and lots for charity.
“With $40 (P1,652) in you pocket, you can get a wonderful life experience. You’ll see a beautiful place, be in a waterfall environment, get good service and enjoy great games. Our air-conditioning is very sensitive; you get clean air. Even if you’re not playing, you’ll like the place because it’s smoke-free, tidy, and there are friendly people to take care of you.”
It’s easy to see why most people only know Larry J. Cruz for his restaurants. The LJC Restaurant Group, which he founded in 1980, is known for some of the most successful dining concepts in the country: Café Adriatico in Malate; Café Havana, originally in Malate, now at Greenbelt 3; Abé in Serendra; and Fely J’s Kitchen and Lorenzo’s Way, both at Greenbelt 5. Many of these restaurants are so popular that they have more than one branch, proof that the dining public rates these establishments highly.
She’s the other celebrity doctor whose billboard you won’t find anywhere on Edsa. Dr. Aivee Aguilar-Teo has quite an impressive list of celebrity and high-profile clients. But when asked to name them, the affable doctor simply giggles and wouldn’t let on, even with a nod. But neither does she deny nor disown the presumed cosmetic work done on those personalities.
Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table may have been a legend. But real knights did exist in the days of the Crusades, responding to the Pope’s call to defend Palestine’s holy places and Jerusalem, in particular, which the Seljuks of Asia Minor had captured.
The statue of Blessed Pedro Calungsod to be featured for his canonization in Rome shows him holding the book “Doctrina Christiana.”
On a Sunday morning in April, Mario Taguiwalo, former Health undersecretary and political activist and thinker, passed away quietly at home, and was immediately cremated. He had neither wake nor obituary—just as he had specified in the months before what he knew was an imminent death.
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