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GMA Network
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- GMA Network
‘Quezon' biopic wraps up filming
Jerrold Tarog's upcoming biopic 'Quezon' has now finished filming! On Instagram, Tarog shared a black and white photo that showed a banner saying ' Viva Quezon y Osmeña,' which translates to 'Long Live Quezon and Osmeña.' 'It's a wrap for 'Quezon,'' he wrote in the caption. "Quezon" is the third installment of TBA Studios' "Bayaniverse," which is preceded by "Heneral Luna" (2015) and "Goyo: Ang Batang Heneral" (2018). The film follows the life of Manuel L. Quezon, a Filipino lawyer and soldier who became the President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944. It stars Jericho Rosales as Quezon, Mon Confiado as General Emilio Aguinaldo, Benjamin Alves as the younger version of Quezon, Karylle as Aurora Quezon and 'Game of Thrones' actor Iain Glen as Leonard Wood, among others. It also includes Romnick Sarmenta as Sergio Osmeña, the first Vice President of the Philippines; JC Santos as Manuel Roxas, who later became the fifth Philippine president; and Cris Villanueva as the older Joven Hernando, the lone fictional character in the film series. "Quezon" is set to premiere this 2025. — Jade Veronique Yap/LA, GMA Integrated News
USA Today
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Taylor Swift congratulates graduates: Star has history of sending gifts, giving speeches
Taylor Swift congratulates graduates: Star has history of sending gifts, giving speeches Graduation is the transition from one era to the next and while Taylor Swift's in-house marketing account is posting well wishes to graduates, there was a time the singer sent one of her loyal Swifties a bouquet of calla lilies and roses. "I have the note framed on a shelf next to a photo of me and Taylor," Ashley Silvers tells the USA TODAY Network. In 2017, months before the release of "Reputation," the University of Central Florida student sent pictures and a graduation invite to the songwriter's fan mail address. "On the day of my graduation party, flowers were delivered to my house and they were the size of my door," Silvers says. The note included a sketch of the New York City skyline where Silvers was heading for grad school and partly read, "Hi love! I'm so sad that I can't make it to your graduation party. ... I'm so proud of you, your hard work and dedication, your excitement and ambition. I'm very lucky that a girl like you cares about me." The advertising and public relations graduate will never forget the superstar's generosity. 'Remember this moment' Although all has been quiet on the Swift front, her in-house marketing team, Taylor Nation, has been celebrating graduates on X. Our comfort speech, fr 💜💜💜 — Taylor Nation (@taylornation13) May 21, 2025 In the past weeks, the account has sent out pictures of Swifties decorating their caps with lyrics from "Long Live," posing on university steps and saying, "Taylor's speech has been my anchor through the toughest times." Her team celebrated the three-year anniversary of Swift earning her honorary doctorate at New York University. "congraTS to the class of 2025 grads," Taylor Nation tweeted intentionally capitalizing the singer's initials. "In the words of Honorary Doctor Swift: 'We are led by our gut instincts, our intuitions, our desires and fears, our scars and our dreams. And you will screw it up sometimes. So will I… We will recover. We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it." Long live the Eras Tour with our enchanting book congraTS to the class of 2025 grads! 🎓♥️ In the words of Honorary Doctor Swift: 'We are led by our gut instincts, our intuitions, our desires and fears, our scars and our dreams. And you will screw it up sometimes. So will I… We will recover. We will learn from it. We will… — Taylor Nation (@taylornation13) May 21, 2025 One of Swift's backup singers, Kamilah Marshall, celebrated earning an online degree from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, even while traveling for two years with the Eras Tour. Silvers says one quote from Swift that has stuck with her since getting her diploma that she hopes all college graduates will reflect on and remember is, "No matter what happens in life, be good to people, being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind." Don't miss any Taylor Swift news; sign up for the free, weekly newsletter This Swift Beat. Follow Bryan West, the USA TODAY Network's Taylor Swift reporter, on Instagram, TikTok and X as @BryanWestTV.
Boston Globe
21-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Watch for the changes: A jazz scene rises in Roxbury
Advertisement The Get Love Letters: The Newsletter A weekly dispatch with all the best relationship content and commentary – plus exclusive content for fans of Love Letters, Dinner With Cupid, weddings, therapy talk, and more. Enter Email Sign Up The Regattabar and Scullers once packed patrons into their hotel jazz clubs six nights a week. Like everything else, they closed when the pandemic hit, and they've never fully returned, hosting shows only two or three nights a week these days. Both clubs showcased local acts early in the week, but no more. Ryles Jazz Club, a popular spot for local jazz musicians, closed in 2018. That's not to say jazz has disappeared from Greater Boston. Wally's Jazz Cafe on Mass. Ave. is going strong after 78 years, providing Berklee College of Music students with a spot to workshop. But something special is happening in Roxbury, and it started because Michael Feldman wanted to see live jazz and bring new life to his neighborhood. 'Roxbury and jazz,' he says, 'they just go together.' Feldman is the CEO of Feldman Geospatial, a company that was founded by his grandfather in 1946 as a land surveyor and has grown into a high-tech construction engineering firm. Advertisement In 2016, Feldman Geospatial bought into the former home of the Boston Piano Co., a three-story brick factory in disrepair. Feldman rehabbed the 162-year-old building, moved into the top two floors, and now rents the bottom floor to Long Live Beerworks, a brewery that started in Providence and operates its second taproom here. Long Live Beerworks in Roxbury. Golden Age Collective Feldman, who grew up listening to the Brazilian and Afro-Cuban records his father played at home, says he dreamed of bringing music into the Hampden Street building and initially thought he would try to recruit Berklee students to perform. But it became apparent he could think bigger. In January 2024 he began hiring local jazz groups to play on Thursday nights — Feldman's firm pays the musicians, even though they bring business to the brewery — and started with a trio led by bassist John Lockwood. Three weeks later Lockwood was back with The Fringe, saxophonist George Garzone's trio that has been playing around Boston since 1971. 'Boston's in bad shape,' Lockwood says, referring to the jazz scene. 'When I first came here, there were all kinds of clubs here — stuff in Boston, stuff in Cambridge. It kind of fizzled out, and when the pandemic hit it got kind of weird.' The Long Live jazz series has 'snowballed,' he says, thanks to the strong lineup, free admission, easy parking, and great beer. 'Boston needs places like this,' says Lockwood, who is a bass professor at Berklee. Sue Auclair, the longtime Boston jazz publicist, happened to come to one of those first shows. Lockwood introduced her to Feldman, and soon she was marketing and promoting the series. Advertisement Feldman and Auclair say they have been pleasantly surprised by how easy it has been to lure musicians here. Puerto Rican saxophonist Edmar Colón will play Long Live Beerworks on April 24. Robert Torres 'We're booked for the year already,' says Auclair, who has done publicity over the years for Scullers, the Newport Jazz Festival, Miles Davis, and countless other jazz venues and artists. Long Live's 2025 lineup is a who's who of Boston jazz, with a particular focus on Latin jazz. The next shows feature singer-pianist Zahili Gonzalez Zamora (March 27), Brazilian mandolinist Ian Coury's quartet (April 3), Israeli pianist Alon Yavnai (April 10), keyboardist Matt Jenson (April 17) and Puerto Rican saxophonist Edmar Colón (April 24). The Fringe has more gigs here, the next one being May 22. Alex Alvear has three shows booked in May with different lineups, including his Boston-based Latin ensemble Mango Blue. Feldman saw that band years ago, became a fervent fan, and flies Alvear in from Ecuador to perform at Long Live. 'What Mike is doing is exceptional for a city that has lost its way when it comes to appreciation for live music culture,' says Alvear, who came to Boston in 1986 to study at Berklee and spent nearly 30 years here before moving back to Ecuador in 2015. Mango Blue performs at Long Live Beerworks in Roxbury. Eric Antoniou By organizing and funding the music series at Long Live, Feldman is doing 'something absolutely out of this world for the Boston music scene,' Alvear says. 'The scene was really literally dying in Boston,' he says from his home in Ecuador. 'I was heartbroken when I found out that all of these really emblematic music venues had been dying and closing. The city, when I arrived in the '80s, was full of music. Live music was an essential component of the city's identity.' Advertisement Feldman wants to make it part of Roxbury's identity. The potential effect on this part of town is as important to him as is the music. 'Kids who live in this neighborhood don't always feel good about their neighborhood because of the way people talk about Roxbury,' he says. 'I really hope that we impact this neighborhood.' Bailey lives in the neighborhood herself, just a few blocks down the street. She came to Boston from New York in 2000 to teach at Berklee, where she is assistant chair of the guitar department. She started coming to Long Live on Sundays for the beer and now performs in the room. 'Look at this space,' Bailey says. 'It's a beautiful space. There are cool people who come here, and the beer is great.' Most of the seats are occupied by the time her quartet launches into 'Old and Young Blues,' a medium-tempo bop tune she wrote. It's an appropriate song: A young couple, clearly on one of their first dates, chat near the back of the room, while an older couple pay strict attention to the musicians. A middle-age woman taps her toes alone to the rhythm, and a group of five professionally dressed women sip beers at a hightop. For two and a half hours on Thursday evenings, this is in fact a jazz club — a big, jolly room on the ground floor of a building that had sat derelict for years, used as storage for old vehicles and construction equipment, now alive with A-list music and friends. 'It's just good for our community,' Feldman says. 'It's good for our spirits. It's something that's needed.' Advertisement Steve Greenlee is a journalism professor at Boston University. Reach him at .
Yahoo
07-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump is not a king, judge says in reinstating fired federal labor board member
In a court case that could very well define the limits of Donald Trump's presidential power, a federal judge Thursday reinstated a member of a federal labor agency, warning of the damage to the country if Trump continues to rule as if he were a king. U.S District Judge Beryl Howell reinstated Gwynne Wilcox to the National Labor Relations Board after Trump removed her without providing any cause, issuing an opinion that suggests the case could be a broader test of the "unitary executive theory." "An American President is not a king -- not even an 'elected' one -- and his power to remove federal officers and honest civil servants like plaintiff is not absolute," Howell wrote. MORE: Trump administration hit with over 100 lawsuits since inauguration Wilcox brought her case last month to challenge her late-night firing from the National Labor Relations Board and she seemingly acknowledged that her lawsuit -- following a "string of openly illegal firings" -- might become a "test case" for the limits of presidential power. Howell's 36-page ruling seemingly took the cue, offering a broad criticism that Trump's interpretation of his scope of power flatly violates the Constitution and risks lasting damage to the country. "The President's interpretation of the scope of his constitutional power -- or, more aptly, his aspiration -- is flat wrong," Howell wrote. Citing the White House's Feb. 19 "Long Live the King" post of Trump wearing a crown, Howell suggested that the president is attempting to govern like a monarch. "A President who touts an image of himself as a 'king' or a 'dictator,' perhaps as his vision of effective leadership, fundamentally misapprehends the role under Article II of the U.S. Constitution," she wrote. Rather than being a "conscientious custodian of the law," Trump has been testing the limits of his power before courts stop him, according to Howell. "The President seems intent on pushing the bounds of his office and exercising his power in a manner violative of clear statutory law to test how much the courts will accept the notion of a presidency that is supreme," Judge Howell wrote. Notably, Howell's decision invoked the "unitary executive" -- a theory that the president can exercise complete control over the executive branch -- and suggested the case could become a way to materialize what has long been an "academic exercise" about the president's power into law. "To start, the Framers made clear that no one in our system of government was meant to be king -- the President included -- and not just in name only," she wrote. Trump is not a king, judge says in reinstating fired federal labor board member originally appeared on
Yahoo
07-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump is not a king, judge says in reinstating fired federal labor board member
In a court case that could very well define the limits of Donald Trump's presidential power, a federal judge Thursday reinstated a member of a federal labor agency, warning of the damage to the country if Trump continues to rule as if he were a king. U.S District Judge Beryl Howell reinstated Gwynne Wilcox to the National Labor Relations Board after Trump removed her without providing any cause, issuing an opinion that suggests the case could be a broader test of the "unitary executive theory." "An American President is not a king -- not even an 'elected' one -- and his power to remove federal officers and honest civil servants like plaintiff is not absolute," Howell wrote. MORE: Trump administration hit with over 100 lawsuits since inauguration Wilcox brought her case last month to challenge her late-night firing from the National Labor Relations Board and she seemingly acknowledged that her lawsuit -- following a "string of openly illegal firings" -- might become a "test case" for the limits of presidential power. Howell's 36-page ruling seemingly took the cue, offering a broad criticism that Trump's interpretation of his scope of power flatly violates the Constitution and risks lasting damage to the country. "The President's interpretation of the scope of his constitutional power -- or, more aptly, his aspiration -- is flat wrong," Howell wrote. Citing the White House's Feb. 19 "Long Live the King" post of Trump wearing a crown, Howell suggested that the president is attempting to govern like a monarch. "A President who touts an image of himself as a 'king' or a 'dictator,' perhaps as his vision of effective leadership, fundamentally misapprehends the role under Article II of the U.S. Constitution," she wrote. Rather than being a "conscientious custodian of the law," Trump has been testing the limits of his power before courts stop him, according to Howell. "The President seems intent on pushing the bounds of his office and exercising his power in a manner violative of clear statutory law to test how much the courts will accept the notion of a presidency that is supreme," Judge Howell wrote. Notably, Howell's decision invoked the "unitary executive" -- a theory that the president can exercise complete control over the executive branch -- and suggested the case could become a way to materialize what has long been an "academic exercise" about the president's power into law. "To start, the Framers made clear that no one in our system of government was meant to be king -- the President included -- and not just in name only," she wrote. Trump is not a king, judge says in reinstating fired federal labor board member originally appeared on
