Sao Paulo kicks off winter Fashion Week

Sao Paulo kicks off winter Fashion Week (via AFP)

Sao Paulo Fashion Week (SPFW), the top such event in Latin America, kicked off Monday to showcase joyful and colorful designs of its 2013 winter collection. Unlike in previous years when it was held in the cavernous Biennal pavilion of the city's Ibirapuera Park, the show featuring 20 Brazilian designers…

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Anderson Cooper's talk show to end in 2013

Anderson Cooper's talk show to end in 2013 (via GlobalPost)

Anderson Cooper's CNN talk show 'Anderson Cooper Live' will not be renewed for a third season after disappointing ratings. Talia Ralph Anderson Cooper's show will end in 2013 after receiving disappointing ratings. Cooper's talk show, syndicated by Warner Brother's subsidiary Telepictures, was fighting…

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Uproar in US over Disney's first 'Latina princess'

Uproar in US over Disney's first 'Latina princess' (via AFP)

Once upon a time a major US animation studio crowned a character who was billed its first Latina princess. Then out came the big bad critics, and Disney ran away. Some fans were pleased that "Sofia the First" could have a Latina lead -- after all, the European, African American, Arab, Asian, Native…

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Here's Why Your Writing Isn’t Selling (ezine)

Here’s Why Your Writing Isn’t Selling (ezine) (via Fab Freelance Writing Blog)

Heads-Up: there are just a couple of spots left in Team Up, our final coaching program for 2012. If you aren’t selling everything you write… I work with writers every day, and by the time they come to me, they’re … Continue reading →

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Here's Why Your Writing Isn’t Selling (ezine)

Here’s Why Your Writing Isn’t Selling (ezine) (via Fab Freelance Writing Blog)

Heads-Up: there are just a couple of spots left in Team Up, our final coaching program for 2012. If you aren’t selling everything you write… I work with writers every day, and by the time they come to me, they’re … Continue reading →

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Selena Gomez Only Stays With Justin Bieber for Fame

Selena Gomez Only Stays With Justin Bieber for Fame (via NewsLook)

This may come as an upset to Selena and Justin fans, but shes allegedly using him for fame. Apparently the young couples relationship has become more of a business deal than a romance.

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Michael Jackson Loses Dead Earners Top Spot

Michael Jackson Loses Dead Earners Top Spot (via NewsLook)

Michael Jackson is now the number two top earning dead celebrity, but who is number one?

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Two backpackers explore the country of Georgia in 'The Loneliest Planet'

Two backpackers explore the country of Georgia in 'The Loneliest Planet' (via The Christian Science Monitor)

'The Loneliest Planet' stars Gael García Bernal (l.), Hani Furstenberg (r.), and Bidzina Gujabidze (center).(Courtesy of IFC Films) In “The Loneliest Planet,” the sensual thrill of being a stranger in a strange land is what propels two young backpackers to venture into the mountainous Khevi region…

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Hans Werner Henze, doyen of German music, dies at 86

Hans Werner Henze, doyen of German music, dies at 86 (via AFP)

Germany's foremost contemporary composer Hans Werner Henze, who died Saturday at the age of 86, was a non-conformist both politically and artistically throughout his life. Born on July 1, 1926 in Guetersloh as the eldest of six children to a school teacher, Henze's early interest in arts and music,…

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Walang Hanggan: The End

Phenomenal soap opera Walang Hanggan finally ends.

The phenomenal Filipino soap opera Walang Hanggan (which translates as Eternal in English, although I bet the more fitting parallel title would either be Forevermore, Endless Love, or Eternal Love) had just ended, but it didn’t just end in any way we call normal. It bid its audience goodbye in a splendidly grand way. In fact, it became trending in Twitter worldwide. 

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The Mistress grosses P254 million

The Mistress grosses P254 million

The Mistress is so far the country’s highest grossing film for 2012. On its fourth week, the John Lloyd Cruz-Bea Alonzo starrer scooped P254. 85 million, reports Box Office Mojo.

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Nora Aunor, Brillante Mendoza, Chris Martinez nominated at Asia Pacific Screen Awards

Nora Aunor, Chris Martinez and Brillante Mendoza
get top nods at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards

Superstar Nora Aunor, critically-acclaimed director Brillante Mendoza, and script writer Chris Martinez scored three nominations at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards for their works in the highly acclaimed film, Thy Womb.

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Thank you, Dolphy!

When the end came, the entire nation was at his bedside

They knew him as the Comedy King, but for a lot of Filipinos, actor Dolphy, or Rodolfo Vera Quizon in real life, was considered the unofficial Father of Perpetual Help.

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Dolphy dead at 83

Veteran actor-comedian Rodolfo “Dolphy” Quizon passed away July 10, his son Eric Quizon announced.

Dolphy died a few days before he would have celebrated his 84th birthday on July 25.

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Ernest Borgnine Dies, 95

Ernest Borgnine in 2010

Ernest Borgnine, who created a variety of memorable characters in both movies and television and won the best-actor Oscar for his role as a lovesick butcher in "Marty" in 1955, died Sunday. He was 95.

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