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Is Your Child Ready for School?

Is Your Child Ready for School?

By: Kimberley Bedona-Padua The past year and a half of school have been such a tumultuous ride. From school closures to virtual classes to partial reopening, it seems as if our children have experienced

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FOLKLORAMA Fusion 2021 – LiveStream Experience

FOLKLORAMA Fusion 2021 – LiveStream Experience

Folklorama Fusion featured three evenings of spectacular performances by many cultural associations and dance groups that normally come together every August for a two-week cultural event. Due to the pandemic and easing of public

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When will the anti-vaxxers ever stop?

When will the anti-vaxxers ever stop?

Perry Diaz

A new term has emerged in the dictionary: anti-vaxxer. It refers to people who disagree with the use of vaccines for various reasons. While its purpose is to prevent people from contracting the deadly

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Zach Ignacio: Running in Her Blood and through Her Veins

Zach Ignacio: Running in Her Blood and through Her Veins

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In the 1990s, the band Alamid was one of the forerunners of Philippine Alternative Rock music, with the late Gary Ignacio as frontman and eventually his younger brother Gail as drummer. After the heyday

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Introducing The New Wave

Introducing The New Wave

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(Sunshine Pop #3) When fellow New Wave music enthusiasts ask me what for me may be regarded as the first New Wave-classifiable songs based on sound or musicality, I often cite Sparks’ “Fa La

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Art collaboration for Heart Evangelista & Incubus’ Brandon Boyd

Art collaboration for Heart Evangelista & Incubus’ Brandon Boyd

Heart Evangelista and Brandon Boyd. (Photo source: Instagram Photo/Brandonboyd) Currently in the United States for work, Heart Evangelista teased a new collaboration with Incubus frontman Brandon Boyd and the Moonlight Arts Collective. Both visual

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Manitoba Day Tripping

Manitoba Day Tripping

It’s time for tea, Victorian-style for Roselyn Advincula and joining her family were the Tanner and Miarial families at Fort La Rein Museum in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba. The trip to the museum was

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Miss Universe PH runway challenge dominated by Cebu’s Steffi Aberasturi

Miss Universe PH runway challenge dominated by Cebu’s Steffi Aberasturi

Image screengrab from YouTube/Empire Philippines Cebu province representative Steffi Aberasturi in Miss Universe Philippines dominates the top spot in the beauty pageant’s runway challenge. On a part of the under-construction Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway, she

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“LIMITLESS, A Musical Trilogy”, an extraordinary journey of Julie Anne San Jose

“LIMITLESS, A Musical Trilogy”, an extraordinary journey of Julie Anne San Jose

Asia’s Limitless Star, Singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and multi-instrumentalist Julie Ann San Jose is set to unveil her different facets in “LIMITLESS, A Musical Trilogy” as she travels in unexpected locations in Mindanao, Visayas,

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GMA: Jennylyn Mercado & Xian Lim to star in the first project together

GMA: Jennylyn Mercado & Xian Lim to star in the first project together

Jennylyn Mercado and Xian Lim (Photo source: Instagram/@mercadojenny,@xianlimm) The upcoming GMA TV series “Love, Die, Repeat.” is officially starred in their first project together by Jennylyn Mercado and Xian Lim. This was confirmed as

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