Oras Na: OPM folk icon Coritha passes away, 73

BY ROBERT REQUINTINA

Sep 28, 2024 07:25 AM

  

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AT A GLANCE

• Chito Santos, partner of Coritha (whose real name is Socorro Avelino), confirmed her during an interview with broadcaster Julius Babao on Friday.

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Coritha (A screenshot from vlog of Julius Babao)

OPM folk singer Coritha, who popularized the songs "Oras Na" and "Sierra Madre" in the 70s, has passed away. She was 73.

Chito Santos, partner of Coritha (whose real name is Socorro Avelino), confirmed her during an interview with broadcaster Julius Babao on Friday.  She passed away at 7:50 p.m. Friday. Chito recalled the final hours of the singer.

"Ilang oras naming siyang binantayan hanggang sa manghina na siya ng manghina. Ayoko na rin siyang magtagal dahil lalo na lang siyang nahihirapan," Chito told Julius. 

"Mabuti ng ganito kesa nakikita kong nahihirapan s'ya. Sobrang hirap na eh. Ang payat payat na n'ya."

"Lumalaban siya. Tumigil na lang siya sa paghinga. Pero nakita ko hirap na hirap na s'ya. Hindi ko na kayang tiisin," he added.

The body of Coritha would be cremated, Chito said.

Dr. Digna Santos, brother of Chito, said they planned a public viewing for Coritha even for one day in Tagaytay. "Kung sino ang gustong pumunta. Siguro next week. Saturday or Sunday. Para ma-schedule na nila (ang pagpunta rito)." 

Coritha had been bedridden after she suffered a stroke, reports said.

In 2018, Chito took the singer to his farm in Tagaytay after her home was burned.

In a report by ABS-CBN News in July, Chito updated Julis on the singer's health status. Chito and Coritha met during a concert in Escolta in the 80s.

"Ayos naman siya kaya lang hindi siya makapagsalita pero 'yung pakiramdam niya matalas

"Diabetic kasi siya eh. Tapos isang beses naiwan ko ang guyabano sa lamesa kinain niya 'yung dalawang malaki. Noong madaling araw... para siyang latang-lata at dinala ko sa hospital. 

"Noong makita ang CT scan marami na raw siyang atake na hindi lang napapansin. 

"Nag-normal naman, 'yun lang hindi siya makapagsalita," Chito said.

Chito expressed his gratitude to those who supported Coritha during her final days.

2024 Asian Academy Creative Awards

Winners to represent the Philippines at the Grand Awards in Singapore this December

BY MANILA BULLETIN ENTERTAINMENT

Sep 28, 2024 07:51 AM

  

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AT A GLANCE

• The Asian Academy Creative Awards (AAA)honor the best of the best from 17 countries, representing the region’s content industry, every December in Singapore to celebrate world-class storytelling in the Asia Pacific region.

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ABS-CBN won eight major awards as the National Winners in the 2024 Asian Academy Creative Awards, with the winners going against the best in the region for the Grand Awards in Singapore in December.

The mystery-thriller series, “Linlang,” which first streamed on Prime Video, bagged the most honors—winning in multiple categories such as Best Drama Series, Best Actor in a Supporting Role for JM de Guzman, and Best Supporting Actress for Kaila Estrada.

Box-office queen Kathryn Bernardo also secured the Best Actress in a Leading Role award for her blockbuster comeback movie, “A Very Good Girl.” 

Meanwhile, the Kim Chiu and Paulo Avelino starrer, “What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim,” a Viu original adaptation produced by ABS-CBN, was recognized in the Best Adaptation of an Existing Format (Scripted) category. 

Mae Cruz-Alviar also emerged with top honor—winning the Best Direction (Fiction) award for "Can't Buy Me Love."

ABS-CBN’s entertainment programs, “It’s Showtime” and “ASAP Live in Milan,” also emerged victorious, winning in the Best General Entertainment Program and Best Music or Dance Program categories, respectively.

The Asian Academy Creative Awards (AAA) honor the best of the best from 17 countries, representing the region’s content industry, every December in Singapore to celebrate world-class storytelling in the Asia Pacific region.  

The awards celebrate works from Australia & New Zealand, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Bini understands they have a responsibility to fans

BY JILL TAN RADOVAN

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

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Romack exudes exclusivity, boasting a largely generational clientele, from lolas to mothers to daughters and now apos whose families have been going to Tina Romack Lirag’s family for their fashion needs for decades. For some, that has been since her grandmother Pilar Ver Romack first put up New Yorker Gown Salon in 1935, to sell imported clothes. The shop was eventually renamed New Yorker PVR and, later, just Romack, and has since pivoted completely to made-to-order.

Hurricanes, storms, typhoons... Is September wetter than usual?

Emilie Bickerton - Agence France-Presse

September 27, 2024 | 11:29am

Residents wade through heavy flooding along Felix Avenue and inner roads at the boundary of Cainta and Pasig City due to intense rain brought by tropical storm Enteng and the enhanced Habagat on Sept. 2, 2024.

The STAR/Miguel de Guzman

PARIS, France — With typhoon Yagi, locally in the Philippines as Enteng, battering Asia, storm Boris drenching parts of Europe, extreme flooding in the Sahel and hurricane Helene racing towards Florida, September so far has been a very wet month.

But while scientists can link some extreme weather events directly to human-caused global warming, it remains too early to draw clear conclusions about this sodden month.

"You will always have some sort of extreme weather events, but their intensity has been magnified by global warming, especially in the context of rainfall," Paulo Ceppi from Imperial College London's Grantham Institute told AFP on Thursday.

"That's probably one of the common drivers of these different events in very different parts of the world."

Early indications from monthly data show some record-breaking precipitation levels in the regions affected.

In central Europe, the torrential rains accompanying storm Boris were "the heaviest ever recorded" in the region, according to the World Weather Attribution (WWA) network of scientists, inundating homes and farmland.

Global warming has doubled the likelihood of severe four-day downpours since the pre-industrial era and the costs of climate change are "accelerating", WWA said in a report published Wednesday.

Meanwhile in Japan's city of Wajima, more than 120 millimetres (4.7 inches) of rainfall per hour from typhoon Yagi was recorded on the morning of September 21 -- the heaviest rain since comparative data became available in 1929.

Hotter, and wetter?

"Attributing different weather patterns around the world at the same time to climate change is very challenging," said Liz Stephens, science lead at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre.

"But the fundamental principle remains that for every 1 degree Celsius of warming the atmosphere can hold seven percent more moisture," she told AFP.

With global warming on track to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times "you can do the math pretty quickly and that will have a measurable impact," said Ceppi from the Grantham Institute.

The 2024 northern summer saw the highest global temperatures ever recorded, beating last year's record, according to the EU's climate monitor Copernicus.

A hotter planet, in other words, could also signal a wetter one.

The sweltering summer in the Mediterranean this year "gives a lot of extra evaporation, pumping more water vapour into Europe if the conditions are right and allowing for all that moisture to be dumped in certain places," Ceppi said.

"The global temperatures -- both over the land and the ocean -- were anomalously high during August-September despite La Nina-like conditions evolving in the Pacific," Roxy Mathew Koll at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology told AFP.

"Anomalously high temperatures assist in supplying additional heat and moisture for storms and weather systems to intensify."

La Nina refers to a naturally-occurring climate phenomenon that cools the ocean surface temperatures in large swathes of the tropical Pacific Ocean, coupled with winds, rains and changes in atmospheric pressure.

In many locations, especially in the tropics, La Nina produces the opposite climate impacts to El Nino, which heats up the surface of the oceans, leading to drought in some parts of the world and triggering heavy downpours elsewhere.

Currently, "neutral" conditions prevail, meaning neither El Nino nor La Nina are present.

Large swaths of South America and Southern Africa suffered from drought in 2024.

The global September update from Copernicus is due early next month and will provide hard data on precipitation levels.

Radiohead reworks Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' for new stage production

 

Agence France-Presse - Agence France-Presse

September 27, 2024 | 11:21am

LONDON, United Kingdom — Shakespeare will meet Radiohead in a new stage production of "Hamlet" due to premiere next year, set to a reworked version of the band's "Hail to the Thief" album.

Alternative rockers Radiohead had a string of best-selling singles in the 1990s and early 2000s including "Creep," "Paranoid Android," and "No Surprises."

Frontman Thom Yorke's lyrics for the 2003 album were originally a response to the election of George W. Bush as US president and his "war on terror" that followed the September 11 attacks.

The singer-songwriter is deconstructing and reworking the album for the production, which will be performed by a cast of some 20 musicians and actors.

Yorke, who is working with Tony- and Olivier award-winning designer Christine Jones and director Steven Hoggett, said in a statement it was an "interesting and intimidating challenge."

"For years I've wanted to see the play and album collide in a piece of theater; eventually I shared the idea with Thom, who was intrigued," said Jones, who conceptualized the idea.

She had been struck by the "uncanny reverberances between the (Hamlet) text and the album", she said. "We've found that the play haunts the album, and the album haunts the play."

Radiohead, comprising former school friends Yorke, brothers Jonny and Colin Greenwood, and Ed O'Brien and Philip Selway, formed in Oxfordshire, southern England, in 1985.

"Creep" was their 1992 debut single and remains their most successful, with over a billion views on YouTube. By 2011, they had sold more than 30 million albums worldwide.

The band, which has also campaigned passionately for environmental causes, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019.

"Hamlet Hail To The Thief" will stage its world premiere in Manchester, northwestern England, in April 2025 before transferring to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon in June.

The STANDS - An INQUIRER Sports Newsletter September 27, 2024

 

September 27, 2024

John Abate and the UE Warriors rock the UAAP with an upset of La Salle. (UAAP PHOTO)

Hey there sports fan, The PBA Governors' Cup quarterfinals has just started so let's get into that once action really picks up—or the issue about the tournament format further heats up. Although, to kick things off, you can try to answer this trivia question:  Which player holds the record for most assists in the PBA? Check out the answer at the end of this email. For now, let's head over to the varsity scene starting in the UAAP, where a major upset rocked the men's basketball tournament and an end of a long losing run was finally ended. And those feats emanated from one campus: University of the East. The Red Warriors defeated defending champion La Salle to send the first tremors across the men's division, and coach Jack Santiago said one of the major benefits of that victory was felt inside the UE dugout.  The defeat stunned the Green Archers, for sure, but Topex Robinson reached for a team rule to help his team get over the upset and bounce back into the win column with a close triumph over stubborn Far Eastern U. The Lady Warriors, on the other hand, ended a 40-game slide by holding off the Lady Archers. That win featured a record-breaking and -tying feat that we'll discuss later. Over at the NCAA, while people are taking notice of teams like St. Benilde, San Beda and San Sebastian, Perpetual Help is making some noise, largely due to a super rookie who is benefiting from his decision to stay home. The Altas, which is using this season to lay down the foundation of a program under new coach Olsen Racela, have somehow notched victories that pushed it near the top of the standings early in the league's centennial season. Meanwhile, if you want suggestions on good sports reads for the week, I have a few. There's a story about friends who have seen their school go through the worst of times and are now hoping for the best this season. There's the story on National U's Lady Bulldogs focusing more on a different number other than their 5-0 start to the women's tournament.

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Luisa San Juan now shares a UAAP record with a very legendary name. (UAAP MEDIA)

Meanwhile on Plus... Sean Chambers' young Far Eastern U Tamaraws could have easily been 4-1 (win-loss) in UAAP men's basketball this season. Instead they are 0-5, including four losses where breaks did them in. Cursed? The legendary PBA import and now college coach doesn't think so. La Salle's Luisa San Juan broke a women's record for three-pointers in a single game and tied two men for the UAAP event record. One of those men, a legend in every way, took notice. The UP Maroons are gobbling up the opposition and it seems like only a match against defending champion La Salle will test them. How does UP keep sharp while awaiting that duel with the Archers? A win against NU was revealing. What we're up to next: We'll continue covering the UAAP basketball scene, both men's and women's. We'll also do a deep dive on the PBA Governors' Cup quarterfinals as the four series gets deeper into their showdowns. We'll also continue monitoring the NCAA and keep an eye on a preseason volleyball tournament. Number of the Week: 3 Players who have hit at 10 triples in a single UAAP game. Luisa San Juan of La Salle was the latest to do so.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK “It's going to be a highlight of their season, playing against us.” —Topex Robinson, La Salle coach, on FEU giving his team a scare in a recent UAAP match.

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