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Thursday, March 13, 2008

DINGDONG DANTES 

Man of the Moment

By Ricky T. Gallardo

It hasn’t happened for a while but the new Bench billboard at the Guadalupe junction on EDSA featuring Dingdong Dantes in his manly glory is definitely causing some drivers to step on their brakes and take a longer look. Yes, Dantes is touted as the hotshot hunk for the summer season and he’s definitely the man of the moment.

Considered a late bloomer in the field of entertainment, Dantes also had his share of rejections before making it into the big league. Even when he was given his biggest break on television a few years ago via the daily fantasy series Antartica where he essayed the role of a merman, Dantes admits that it was a long, hard climb.

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Romancing the stone

Shoptalk with jewelry designer Laura de Guzman

Artists come in all shapes and sizes and so do their mediums in which they express their art. Some prefer to work with paints, others opt to mold plaster or carve wood and a few use found objects to concretize...

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HIGH ON E(TIQUETTE)
By Patty Betita

Fly high with good manners

A good friend of mine who works as a flight attendant for a prestigious airline was in town recently. Flying for almost two years now, she had a luggage full of interesting stories to tell.

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PEOPLE
By Bob Garon

Addiction can cause severe brain damage

You have perhaps read a lot about drug addiction, but you might not know that new information about the damage done to addicts is being made public all the time. text

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