How can we ever tell the history of modern Filipino show business without Piolo Pascual? These days, he's rewriting it yet again.
Piolo Pascual is singing god knows what from a makeshift dressing room atop a loft at this racing-themed cafe in Alabang. So that's what Ibarra is going to sound like. He's dressed in a white shirt, slacks, and decent leather dress shoes, ...
NEW YORK: At the global launch of the H&M and Mugler collaboration here, the Philippines was represented by model and actress Liza Soberano. Donning pieces from the collection at the event held at the Park Avenue Armory, she was one of several ...
According to author and journalist Jeff Sharlet, "the old ways aren't going to work."
Jeff Sharlet has made a career out of writing about “bad people.” In a way, writing about horrible people gives him some control. They influence our lives, whether we like it or not, and by seeking them out, Sharlet can see them ...
"[That] was my love letter to the industry I always dreamed of. And when you get there, it's like, 'Ay ganito pala dito. Akala ko ganito siya. Hindi to tinuro sa film school.'"
In the mid-to-later half of the 2010s, director Antoinette Jadaone's name was synonymous with the sawi. She had been catapulted by the success of That Thing Called Tadhana in 2014, sending her into a stratosphere of celebrity she hadn't seen before. "It ...
The artist just debuted his sweet, soulful album, Ben—which is inspired by fatherhood, a relapse, and everything he's learned since "Thrift Shop" became a national earworm.
Macklemore descends a dark stairwell into the downstairs lounge of a Midtown hotel, where I’ve set up shop. It’s raining outside, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at him. Dressed in his clothing line, Bogey Boys, he sports a yellow shirt and ...
There’s a Bryan Adams song in the soundtrack of every Filipino’s life. Whether it’s “Summer of ’69,” or “Please Forgive Me,” or “Heaven,” or “Straight from the Heart,” or “Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman,” the man is undoubtedly a prolific ...
The P-Pop (Pinoy Pop, in relation to K-Pop) phenomenon seems unstoppable, which is a good thing, as it gives more local artists an avenue to break into the entertainment industry not only in the Philippines but also in other countries. One of ...
We also watch the band’s first-ever show in Asia right here in Manila.
About an hour before the guys of Wallows go up onstage at the New Frontier Theater in Quezon City, their first-ever show anywhere in Asia, they’re hanging out at the green room still fighting off jetlag. Dylan Minnette, Braeden Lemasters, and Cole ...
The Roys have nothing on the Redstones. The authors of Unscripted explain how the family behind the Paramount empire nearly lost it all through infighting, sexual impropriety, and corporate greed.
The first rule of media industry scandals is that however ugly it appears from the outside, it's actually much worse on the inside. The second rule is that the full, sordid story will eventually out. Both rules are affirmed by Unscripted: The Epic ...
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