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Madonna and Taylor Swift top MTV VMAS (opens the original)
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The 2026 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) was held last Sept. 27 at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. It was all smooth sailing as far as the nominees and winners were concerned. Truth to tell, I do not see how anybody can object to the top winners like Madonna, who won seven Moonman trophies out of 13 nominations, and Taylor Swift, who had 11 nominations and went home with three wins. Bow na lang tayo nang bow. Nobody also objected to the Best K-pop category. Well, it has already been around for
IV of Spades, SB19, Dionela win big at the Awit Awards (opens the original)
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The music industry has spoken. The winners of the 39th Awit Awards were handed out in what must be the biggest show ever staged by the Philippine Association of the Record Industry (PARI). Held at the SM Mall of Asia (MOA) Arena last Sept. 15, the event was the first in Awit history to be opened to the public. Fans who bought tickets were not disappointed. They saw today’s major music stars together in a show of solidarity during a most exciting time for Filipino music. The big winners were IV o
Alfredo Buenaventura, our new National Artist for music (opens the original)
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After a long delay that was threatening to become more and more controversial by the day, the names of the latest batch named to the Filipino Order of the National Artist were made known last week. It is an impressive batch, a line-up that nobody, except perhaps for those candidates who lost, is likely to take issue with. The only sad thing about this is that some of them are posthumous awardees. This means that they had already passed on and are not around to enjoy the honor being bestowed on t
Dolly Parton, the Music Legend with a well-lived life (opens the original)
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Remember Dolly, the cloned sheep? Do you know how she got her name? Well, she was named Dolly because she was cloned with cells from the mammary glands of an ewe. Mammary, as in of breasts, breasts like those of Dolly Parton’s. Oh, there is also a bridge named Dolly Parton somewhere in Alabama, which got its name because it has arches that resemble Dolly’s breasts. Breasts are not all there are in the Dolly Parton legend. She once joined a drag Dolly Parton look-alike contest and lost. Dolly is
77-year-old musical ‘South Pacific’ returns (opens the original)
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For songs that are familiar and among the most beautiful ever written, you will not go wrong with the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “South Pacific.” This must be the reason why the presentation by the University of Santo Tomas Conservatory of Music on its 80th anniversary celebration last February proved to be such a wonderful surprise. That is the reason why it will be back from Sept. 12 to 20 with the same talented cast at the Proscenium Theater in Rockwell. Returning to play the American nu
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