85th Oscar Awards Winners (2013)

Photo courtesy of Empire

The 85th Annual Academy Awards was held in Los Angeles on February 24 (Sunday) evening.

Here is the complete list of the Oscars 2013 winners:

BEST PICTURE: Argo

Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers

BEST DIRECTOR: Ang Lee, Life Of Pi

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables

AirAsia Philippines introduces new hotline numbers and cash payment partners

Philippines’ AirAsia, the low cost carrier 

with the youngest fleet, has just announced significant changes in its customer call 

center. Starting February 25, 2013, Philippines’ AirAsia’s new customer hotline number will 

be 742ASIA or 742.27.42.





CCP Art Forum: Photography and New Media | February 20, 2013

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CCP Sining Alamin: 13 Artists Series presents the last leg of the forum series entitled, "Photography and New Media." This will be held on February 20, 2013 from 2 to 4 pm at the MKP Hall, 4F Main Theater Building, Cultural Center of the Philippines. 

Pacific X-treme Combat presents "PXC-35: The Return of a Champion" | February 16, 2013

Pacific X-treme Combat, Asia Pacific’s biggest and best mixed martial arts organization, holds the PXC-35 on February 16, 2013 inside the Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig City.

PXC has already established a name throughout Asia Pacific and its arrival in the Philippines last June 2011 cemented their reign as the premiere MMA organization by attracting the best fighters from the all over the world. With its most recent installment, PXC again makes its way to the Philippines to put a show in front of thousands of MMA fanatics.

Virgin LabFest 9: Call for Submissions (2013)

The Virgin Labfest YEAR 9 is now open for script submissions. The Virgin Labfest is an annual festival of unpublished, unstaged, untried and untested works for the theater held in the middle of the year (June to July) at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. This festival is a partnership project of the Writer's Bloc, Inc., Tanghalang Pilipino, Inc. and the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

This year, the Virgin Labfest will choose nine (9) "virgin" one-act plays and one (1) full length play.

The Virgin Labfest is open to submissions of the following written works:

1.  One-act plays (maximum running time: 40 minutes)

2.  Full-length plays (minimum running time: 1 hour 20 minutes; maximum running time: 2 hours)

Talaang Ginto: Makata ng Taon 2013 Contest

Ang TALAANG GINTO: MAKATA NG TAON ay timpalak sa pagsulat ng tula na itinataguyod ng Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino kaugnay ng pagdiriwang ng Araw ni Balagtas tuwing Ika-2 ng Abril taun-taon.

Nilalayon ng timpalak na lalo pang pasiglahin at pataasin ang uri ng panulaang Filipino sa pamamagitan ng pagkilala sa mga batikan at baguhang talino.

Bukas ang timpalak sa lahat, maliban sa mga kawani ng KWF at kanilang kaanak.

2. Ang lahok ay kailangang orihinal at nasusulat sa Filipino, hindi salin mula sa ibang wika at hindi pa nalalathala sa alinmang publikasyon. Hindi patatawarin ang sino mang nahuli at napatunayang nagkasala ng pangongopya. Kakanselahin ng KWF ang ipinagwaging lahok nito sa timpalak at hindi na muling makasasali pa sa alinmang timpalak ng KWF.