APO’s landmark concert at the Big Dome

By Nickie Wang/Manila Standard Today
“I still retain images of the Big Dome lighted with cell phones everywhere in the audience like points of happy light sending out warm affectionate signals to us on stage.”
Jim Paredes wrote these lines on his blog few hours after the APO’s successful three-hour-and-eight-minute concert at the Big Dome on Saturday, [...]

Grandpa is Lee Majors’ new role

By Nickie Wang/Manila Standard Today
What would you do if you had the power to turn yourself into 10 different entities with 10 different superpowers?
For Lee Majors, the American television icon who played Steve Austin in the series The Six Million Dollar Man, dreaming of having superpower is a thing of the past. But given a [...]

Life, emotions and music masters

By Nickie Wang/Manila Standard Today
There are various media we could use to communicate a message and music is one of those. Whether sadness, fear, anger, love, joy or exaltation, music has been a proven way to represent emotions and to trigger emotive responses. However, a message can have diverse impact on people depending on the [...]

Gloria Diaz promotes healthy lifestyle

Nickie Wang/Manila Standard Today
Why do people need to keep their heart healthy?
Based on the statistics of the Department of Health, heart disease is the no. 1 killer in the Philippines. There has been a staggering increase of mortality among men and women concerning varied diseases involving the heart.
Contrary to what most people believe that men [...]

Introducing Fernando Amorsolo to a new generation

By Nickie Wang/Manila Standard Today
Visiting art museums and galleries seemingly is something unexciting to children and teenagers of this generation.
They’d rather go to concerts or the movies than spend time in somber halls of a museum gawking at sculptures or paintings they can’t seem to understand. What they enjoy doing most these days is engaging [...]

Ex-US soldier wins Mister International Philippines

By Nickie Wang/ Manila Standard Today
Filipino-American Ryan Roberts will wear the Mister International Philippines sash in the international male pageant to be held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on Nov. 23.
After outshining 14 other candidates during the pageant’s night held Sept. 1 at the A.Venue Events Mall in Makati, Roberts walked home with P20,000, a trophy, and [...]

Historical inaccuracy in The Tudors

By Nickie Wang/ Manila Standard Today
Most critics look for precise details when someone dares to recreate the past through an elaborate production, either in the movies or television.
This element some filmmakers disregard and instead choose to create a different reality to satisfy visual, the artistry that they think will mesmerize their audience.
This month, HBO Signature [...]