Bookworms, this is not a drill, Booksale is now available on Shopee! One of the go-to-budget bookstores in the country is all set for opening its “virtual shelves” to all customers out there. Shakira Sison, an award-winning essayist, and poet whose family owns Booksale, confirmed the good news in a tweet encouraging her followers to support the bookstore and their employees.     “Yes it’s true that BookSale is online,” Sison said. “And my dear father is asking for your support to help keep his employees afloat, most of whom have been with him for decades. They are struggling like...

Pinoy indie-pop band Ben&Ben will once again perform to support vulnerable communities affected by COVID-19. The band will hold its second online benefit concert named Balik Eskwela: Puhon Part 2, a one-hour live show via simultaneous streams on their official Facebook Page and YouTube Channel on October 4, 2020, Sunday at 5 pm onwards.   Photo courtesy of Ben&Ben / Facebook   The proceeds of the event are meant to provide e-learning and physical supplies that will be distributed to public schools; care packages (PPEs and vitamins) for teachers and personnel assigned for the distribution of said supplies; distribution efforts...

On Wednesday, September 30, a Senate panel restored around P45 million to the Office of the Vice President's proposed budget for 2021 after it was cut by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM). During the budget hearing, which Senator Sonny Angara, who is the chair of the panel, claimed that it is the fastest discussion on budget proposals they have had so far, that only lasted for around 20 minutes, and the members of the Senate Committee on Finance expressed its eagerness to approve the ₱723.39-million budget proposal of the OVP. Vice President Leni Robredo told the Senate Committee...

After the successful collaboration with the Hollywood star Selena Gomez with the song ‘Ice Cream’, which now has more than 291 million views on Youtube, and more than 96 million streams on Spotify, BLACKPINK officially announced their new single with Cardi B. On Tuesday, September 29, BLACKPINK dropped the official tracklist for their first full-length album, ‘The Album’ on their Facebook page, confirming the rumor about their collaboration with the US hiphop rapper Cardi B, who recently released a comeback with the rap song WAP, featuring Megan Thee Stallion, which became a massive hit as it reached number 1 on...

On September 25, Friday, kapamilya actress Julia Barretto went to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Cybercrime Division to formally file a complaint against Jay Sonza  over rumors of the actress’s alleged pregnancy with Gerald Anderson, stated on Sonza’s now deleted post on his Facebook page last September 21. Part of his Facebook post include “Congratulations sa aking kapitbahay sa Congressional Village, Bahay Toro, Quezon City.” “Napatunayan nina Visoy (visayan tisoy) Gerald Anderson at anak nina Dennis Padilla at Marjorie na si Julia Barreto na kapuwa hindi sila baog. After months of love lockdown and ESQ (exact sex quadrant) -...