Businessman and philanthropist Manny V. Pangilinan, also known as MVP, marks his 72nd birthday today. The CEO and managing director of First Pacific Holdings, Inc., chairman of Metro Pacific Investment Corp. and chairman, president, and CEO of Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. received well wishes and greetings from the different companies under his management.

Celebrity makeup artist Junie Sierra shares how he rose from the ranks —  from being a salon floor sweeper, to one of the country's top makeup artists who has worked with Filipino TV personalities Solenn Heussaff, Georgina Wilson and Anne Curtis, among others. 

I usually know what I am expected to do in a gallery which, more often than not, involves a staring game with hanging objects. In “Nil,” this easy enough task was predictably painful to perform.

One of the pleasures of our recent visit to Tacloban was meeting up with two friends — the cultural scholar and UP Tacloban Humanities Division head Joycie Dorado Alegre, and the poet and Professor Emeritus Merlie M. Alunan.

At a memorable dinner hosted last month by Cesare, Jean Marie and Maxine Syjuco — with writer-friends toasting the memory of Cirilo Bautista who had been Cesare’s professor at DLSU — my initial eureka was over comadre Jean Marie’s culinary excellence, which certainly matches her better-known artistic proficiency.