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Best of the Week: Anti-planking, pro-veganism and Miss World Philippines!

by Irvin Cortez - September 24, 2011 - 12:00am

Boxing’s favorite trash talker won the WBC Welterweight title this week from Victor Ortiz in a controversial match where analysts claim Mayweather threw in a barrage of punches to Ortiz when he wasn’t...

Best of the Week : ScarJo, Shamcey and Shalani

by Irvin Cortez - September 17, 2011 - 12:00am

Nope, guys, it didn’t come from her. As the country hailed Shamcey’s 3rd runner-up finish, news about Oprah commenting that Miss Philippines should’ve been Miss Universe instead of Miss Angola turned...

Best of the Week: More baby news! More bad boys! Less break-ups!

by Irvin Cortez - September 10, 2011 - 12:00am

Denise Laurel surfaced and admitted she gave birth to a bouncing baby boy earlier this year, while Andi Eigen-mom named 18-year-old Albie Casiño as her baby daddy; both finally admitting rumors that have been...

Best of the Week: Sexy nerds, gay musketeers & hiphop egos

by Irvin Cortez - August 13, 2011 - 12:00am

After the Azkals and the Volcanoes, the spotlight is on the Philippine Dragon Boat Federation.

Best of the Week: Manila's beaches, Migz's crises and Miriam's speeches

by Irvin Cortez - August 6, 2011 - 12:00am

Paris Hilton is visiting Manila next week in the attempt to penetrate the local party-going industry as she opens the Paris Hilton Beach Club, a high-end venue for parties that promises to up the ante of clubbing...

Best of the Week: Of promising futures, ruined ones and people from it

by Irvin Cortez - July 2, 2011 - 12:00am

Perhaps in another universe Madonna and Keanu Reeves are nobodies, but good thing they live in Milky Way with us where we can adore them for the rest of our terrestrial lives.

Best of the Week: Marcos, Mar, Manilow and the Mother Monster

by Irvin Cortez - June 11, 2011 - 12:00am

Ferdinand Marcos’ gravestone should read: “Born: 1917, Died 1989, Buried 2011” but even that isn’t a certainty.

Best of the Week : Ambiguous people, beautiful girls and Sean Kingston

by Irvin Cortez - June 4, 2011 - 12:00am

It’s not likely that the Pope will get married someday and then decide he wants to be celibate again and legalize divorce in the Vatican.

Best of the Week: Rankings, Rihanna, and Rapture

by Irvin Cortez - May 28, 2011 - 12:00am

School season will be on again in a matter of weeks and incoming college students are asking themselves, “Did I choose the right school for me?” Well, worry no more, folks; we’ll help you pick which...

Best of the week: Gender benders, McPheever, and the pieces of Ashlee Simpson's career

by Irvin Cortez - May 21, 2011 - 12:00am

In a classic case of “whatever happened to,” American Idol runner-up Katharine McPhee answers the question with a bang.

Best of the Week: The resigned Ombudsman, Channing Tatum's cobra and safaris in the USA

by Irvin Cortez - May 7, 2011 - 12:00am

We may never know who the first Filipino on Twitter is, but now that the microblogging site has taken the country like angry birds, a new record has been set.

Best of the week: Manny, 'Maven,' models, and the morgue

by Irvin Cortez - April 30, 2011 - 12:00am

After making it to the Forbes’ List of the Highest Paid Athletes in the World for 2009, the Magnolia Milk-raised boxer from Saranggani province is again recognized as the Best Paid Athlete for 2010 by ESP...

Best of the Week: The fall of Bataan and the next Janina San Miguel

by Irvin Cortez - April 9, 2011 - 12:00am

The MTV-owned Nickelodeon recently released it’s 2011 Fall Programming, which is going old-school.

Best of the Week:National Velvet, Chris Douchebrown, and Baby Vadge

by Irvin Cortez - March 26, 2011 - 12:00am

This week, we ponder the one million connection as we sift through a week’s worth of pop culture trash and bring you the best of the week.

Best of the Week: Threats, truths and trannies

by Irvin Cortez - March 19, 2011 - 12:00am

“Does anybody know the way to Atlantis?” we were once asked via song; and to answer that question, yes, Mandy, somebody does.

Best Of The Week: A 'holy' reconciliation amid Twitter wars

by Irvin Cortez - March 12, 2011 - 12:00am

What’s up with teen stars these days? Some shoplift, others do salvia. One fine example is the sensational Justin Bieber. Celebrating his 17th birthday (Uyyyy! Daisy Siete!)

Best of the Week: Britney, Superheroes and 'Vanity Fair'

by Irvin Cortez - February 5, 2011 - 12:00am

After exposing ScarJo’s ass and delving into young Hollywood, Vanity Fair goes back to basics with this year’s Hollywood Issue.

Best Of The Week: Of secret sisters, supermodels and smooch scandals

by Irvin Cortez - January 29, 2011 - 12:00am

Yes, we all get it. Aljur Abrenica is the new Machete and his abs are so rock hard Chuck Norris is afraid.

Best of the week: Cherrie Pie's Cherrybombs, among other things

by Irvin Cortez - January 22, 2011 - 12:00am

You really do not get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies...

Best of the week: Wino, pubic hair, and Christian names

by Irvin Cortez - January 15, 2011 - 12:00am

“Pliant is the bamboo; I am a man of earth,” poet Amado Daguio once wrote.

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