Faux ‘shaman’ jailed for 10 years for fraud
A fraudulent faith healer who convinced victims she was a shaman and conned them out of almost 1 million pounds ($1.7 million) was sentenced Friday to 10 years in jail.
May 31, 2014
A fraudulent faith healer who convinced victims she was a shaman and conned them out of almost 1 million pounds ($1.7 million) was sentenced Friday to 10 years in jail.
Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene of Monaco announced Friday that they are expecting their first child, who will be heir to the tiny principality.
The first thing you need to know is that “The Fault in Our Stars” is not a cancer movie. Yes, there are characters battling cancer, and Hazel Grace Lancaster (Shailene Woodley) and Augustus Waters (Ansel Elgort) do meet in a cancer support group, but this is not a film about the disease.
I met John Green one May night in New York, just a couple of hours after he was honored at the Time 100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Rex Navarrete says being a comedian is part of Philippine culture, a “tradition and an honorable career to have.”
Tom Cruise loves doing science fiction movies. From the smart 2002 “precrime” thriller “Minority Report” to the overwrought 2005 alien invasion “War of the Worlds” and the underrated 2013 clone saga “Oblivion,” the 51-year-old actor and producer has displayed a deep affinity for the genre.
The stench of the Janet Lim-Napoles pork barrel scandal has reached the theater circle, and it has galvanized playwright Layeta Bucoy to write the libretto of a rap-musical called “Kleptomaniacs,” running at the CCP Little Theater from July 11 to 27.
There’s a new kid on the theater block—The Sandbox Collective, a subsidiary arm of the theater company 9 Works Theatrical. And it will make its debut with “Dani Girl,” an Off-Broadway musical by young American composers Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond.
With “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” now on its second-month run at Resorts World Manila, a certified critical and commercial success, Full House co-artistic director Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo can breathe easier.
Jeju is for honeymooners, an officemate tells us the night before we leave Manila to visit Korea’s largest island—whose official name is Jeju Special Autonomous Province.
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