Dudut Lang Popular YouTuber and comedian Dudut Lang will be holding a one-night only fan interaction livestream session tonight (March 4) between 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. on global platform Bigo Live. With 1.36 million subscribers on YouTube, Dudut Lang is one of the Philippines’ most popular...
WALA LANG VIEWS OF MANILA by José Honorato Lozano (photo courtesy of Leon Gallery) With a starting bid of five million, the super rare letras y figuras Views of Manila must have sold for an eye-watering sum in last Saturday’s Leon Gallery auction. It was painted in the 1840s by José Honorato...
WALA LANG IMPORTANT CULTURAL PROPERTIES: NCCA invitation for comments on the delisting petition. The latest excitement in heritage circles is over a temple in Santa Ana that a Ms. Chloe Chizu Go , wants removed from the National Museum’s “Important Cultural Property” list. How she became...
COVID-19 has spawned a new generation of planters. Not sugar barons or coconut tycoons, but plantitos and plantitas growing super expensive plants often with weird-looking inedible green-and-white leaves. Spare time while in self-quarantine made me an accidental farmtito. I had tossed overripe...
WALA LANG SHARP OBJECTS AND BLADED WEAPONS Talibóng of the Mundo (Panay-Bukidnon) warriors and the handle of one, depicting a Makara, a mythical being of Hindu origin. (photo courtesy of Floy Quintos) Apart from what my kasambahay calls kutsilyo or nayp , the most familiar weapon nowadays is the...
WALA LANG PARK AT YOUR OWN RISK. The Rizal Monument at Rizal Park before the pandemic. Color/Number Coding . I’m all for reducing traffic and certainly number-coding helps. Those who can afford it, however, buy a second car, maybe even a third, to use when their first car is grounded. Traffic is...
WALA LANG PLACES OF WORSHIP. An imaginary church façade drawn with details of the Philippines’ 50 must-see churches on the cover of Regalado Trota Jose, Simbahán (Manila: The Crown Book, Inc., 2020). In Tagalog, simbahan is a noun meaning church and simbahán (with accent on the last syllable),...
This time, Halloween dressing goes the other way around Here’s how Halloween dressing works. We pick a character, shop for a costume or play with what we have in our closet, then finish the look with makeup, maybe something shimmery or something red and gory. Unfortunately, dressing up for this...
This Saturday (October 10), Wish Ko Lang! features a family struggling to survive a tragedy in a story bannered by Sunshine Dizon and Gabby Eigenmann. Joining them are Klea Pineda and Kelvin Miranda. For the whole month of October, Wish Ko Lang! is featuring fresh episodes of heart-warming stories...
Zephanie landed on Spotify’s local editorial playlists through her newest single “Sabihin Mo Na Lang Kasi,” taking a spot on multiple music playlists that focus the spotlight on rising and leading OPM songs. “I was kind of worried if people would like it since it’s different from my other...
Emman Nimedez (Facebook) YouTube sensation Emman Nimedez died at 1 a.m. today, Aug. 16. He was 27. The sad news was posted by his girlfriend, Peachy Santos, on Emman’s verified Facebook account. He died battling acute myeloid leukemia. She wrote: “Our beloved Emman Nimedez joined our Creator at...
