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Catch Vice Ganda’s U.S. tour this week: Nagmahal, nasaktan, nag-concert
What makes a great stand-up comedian? “Rolling Stone” magazine adeptly described its criteria when it named this year’s Top 50 Stand-Up Comics of All Time: “In coming up with our version of a comic canon, we weighed artistic merit, technical proficiency and sense of timing, quality of their written material, their delivery and degree of ...
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Ex-Bay Area dean now the Willy Wonka at Romeo Chocolates
By Cristina DC Pastor How does one go from being college dean to chocolatier with a plan? If you are Romeo Garcia, 38, you simply drop everything and fast-forward to a chocolate academy in Antwerp where Belgian bonbons are handcrafted and made with respect for tradition. That’s what he did in 2014 when he stepped ...
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How Napa Valley seized the Philippine wine market from the French
By Rene Pastor Tess Tabada loves to sit back at the end of a sultry day with a glass of red Paul Masson, her eyes closed and her thoughts nowhere near the university where she teaches. “I prefer the red wine because it’s better for the heart,” she told the website Commodities According to Rene ...
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Snapchat billionaire Bobby Murphy just got richer after company IPO
By Cristina DC Pastor Bobby Murphy’s net worth climbed to almost $5 billion, cementing a title Forbes has bestowed on the Filipino American tech entrepreneur as one of the youngest billionaires in the world. Murphy, 28, has a net worth of $4.9 billion as chief technology officer of Snap, Inc., a social media company that ...