Some of the finest woodpushers from Visayas and Mindanao pit against each in a 20-board friendly encounter as part of the 1 st Gov. Henry S. Oaminal 7-in-1 Chess Festival scheduled on Nov. 10 to 12 at the Ozamis City Auditorium in Ozamis City, Misamis Occidental. The Visayas team will be composed...
Giant versions of President Marcos and Vice President Sara Duterte Carpio will join this year's Higantes Festival in Angono, Rizal. A series of activities to highlight Angono's arts, music, culture, food, sports, and religious festivities was recently unveiled by the local government as the opening...
ILOILO CITY – Mayor Jerry Treñas and Vice Mayor Jeffrey Ganzon here have apologized for inviting a vlogger known for cursing online for the 100-day countdown for the Dinagyang Festival 2024. “On behalf of the organizers of Dinagyang 2024, I would like to offer my apology since sensitivities...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) said on Monday, October 23, that the MassKara Festival here this year was generally peaceful. POLICE Col. Noel Aliño (center), Bacolod City police director, checks the deployment of policemen in one of the festival sites during the 44th...
Selecting 10 official entries of the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) was never done before, except for this year! It is unprecedented and surreal. Let us weigh in the pros and cons. With four shoo-in titles, (K)ampon starring Beauty Gonzales and Derek Ramsay, Penduko with Matteo Guidicelli,...
BACOLOD CITY – Barangay Granada defended their MassKara Street Dance and Arena Competition title here on Sunday, October 22. BARANGAY Granada celebrates after winnig the MassKara Festival Street Dance and Arena Competition in Bacolod City on Sunday, October 22. (Balik Yuhum Foundation) This is...
By Jinggoy I. Salvador Something delectable, something grand. The first Davao Food & Wine Festival (DFWF) was a week-long celebration for the palate. It was a unique gastronomic journey that highlighted Davao regional produce, including the famed cheeses and tuna, through curated specialties of...
From Instagram masskarafestival23 When the going gets tough, the tough get going. In the case of the Bacolodnons, especially back in the 1980s, when everything that could go wrong went wrong in Bacolod—a sugar crisis, a famine, a luxury liner, the MV Don Juan , sinking off the coast of Mindoro,...
MASK ON Bacolod City celebrates MassKara Festival every October (Photo courtesy of Bacolod City PIO) Bacolodnons enjoyed an unforgettable night of music as the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) serenaded them live in the concert “PPO sa Masskaara on Oct. 18 at SM City Bacolod Atrium in...
BACOLOD CITY – Barangay 19 emerged champion in this year’s Electric MassKara and Elektrika Diva dance competitions on Saturday, October 21. BARANGAY 19 topped this year’s Electric MassKara and Elektrika Diva dance competitions at the Bacolod City Government Center on Saturday, October 21....
Scrapper The New Horizons section of the 11th edition of QCinema, which runs from Nov. 17 to 26, features five acclaimed directorial film debuts: City Of Wind by Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, Foremost By Night by Victor Iriarte, Scrapper by Charlotte Regan, Through The Night by Delphine Girard, and...
BACOLOD CITY – A 22-year-old tourism student of the University of Saint La Salle (USLS) here was crowned Miss Bacolod MassKara 2023 on Monday, October 16. Yvonne Catamco, a fourth year college student taking up Bachelor of Science (BS) in Tourism Management, bested 14 other candidates in the...
