American Ninja Warrior to Premiere Brand New Season on AXN

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More thrills and heart-pounding moments are in store when the popular reality competition series American Ninja Warrior returns this May on AXN.

In the latest season, competitors push their fighting forms to the limit as they take on the world’s most challenging obstacle courses - including 28 new obstacles - in the qualifying rounds held in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Oklahoma City, and Philadelphia.

Retaining the same format, all competitors must finish the course or be in the top 30 in the qualifying stages to enter the city finals.
As in the past, the top competitors advance to the national finals in Las Vegas, where the grueling Mt. Midoriyama will be the final course of the competition.

This season, a total of 500 competitors attempt to become only the second American Ninja Warrior champion, after 33-year-old busboy-turned-professional rock climber Isaac Caldiero made history and was crowned the first ever winner in Season 7,  taking home the $1 million grand prize.

Hosts Matt Iseman and Akbar Gbaja-Biamila return for their seventh and fourth seasons, respectively, alongside sideline reporter Kristine Leahy who returns for her second season. 

American Ninja Warrior Season 8 premieres on May 15 and airs from Monday to Friday at 7:05pm.


AXN is available on Cablelink Channel 38, Cignal Channel 121, Destiny Cable Channel 49, Dream Satellite TV Channel 20, G Sat Channel 51, and SKYCable Channel 49. AXN HD is available on SKYCable Channel 247.emiere brand new season on AXN

Pag Tumitig Nang Matagal: Mac Andre Arboleda's First Solo Exhibit

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Mac Andre Arboleda's first solo exhibit "Pag Tumitig Nang Matagal" runs until May 17 at Cafe Berde, Los Baños, Philippines. The exhibition, which features 15 photographs, opened last April 26, with a short program with guest reactors Om Velasco and Sarah Koo. 

In the exhibition "Pag Tumitig Nang Matagal", Arboleda shows offbeat images of mundane objects from his bedroom: electric fan, calendars, clotheshangers by the window, books and memorabilia on shelves; and at the same time, denying their objectness and giving a sense of discomfort and nausea. 

Mac Andre Arboleda, 23, also known as "Asshulz" on the Internet, makes web comics, zines, short films, and organizes art events around the South. He is the author of photozines "The Face of a Marcos Apologist", "Noah's Ark", and "Fictional Instagram Feeds", which make use of the Internet & other media to make photographs. He is a Development Communication student in the University of the Philippines Los Baños, member of art collective Magpies Press and is founder of the biannual zine expo "Zine Orgy". Last year, he won the Pelikultura Best Film Award for his #BuhayElbi entry "Boy Dyaryo." 

Arboleda said that "Pag Tumitig Nang Matagal" was inspired by ideas of "looking," how one's personal space could appear or feel different after a long session of just staring around. "There's this Internet joke that cats are always tripping on acid because they like to stare at blank walls." According to him, his goal was to capture the look and the feeling of being so bored that you start seeing things in a new perspective.

"Pag Tumitig Nang Matagal" requires that the pictures be stared at longer and more carefully, so much so that boredom allows the objects and the spaces in between to be seen as different parts of different bodies altogether, just as the artist’s own everyday and prolonged gaze allowed him to look at his own room differently. At a time when digital media and the internet’s fetish for the new and instant no longer allows staring at a fixed surface in boredom, the exhibit is an unassuming invitation to return to the appreciation of the picture through the rudimentary act of staring.   

"Pag Tumitig Nang Matagal" runs from April 26-May 17, 2018 at Cafe Berde, Los Baños, Laguna. Cafe Berde is open everyday from 10AM to 8PM.

Celebrate Mother’s Day in BGC!

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It’s your day, have it your way, Mom!

Once a mom, forever a mom so whether you’re new to motherhood or have been doing it a while, being a mom deserves to be celebrated!

This Mother’s Day weekend, enjoy a sugar rush of sweet-filled activities as BGC transforms Bonifacio High Street Activity Center into a wonderland of food trucks and fun games, a one-stop workshop station featuring arts, beauty, and food, and a shopping haven of exclusive Mommy-merch and special deals for you and the whole family.

Held in partnership with lifestyle network TLC, the event is free and open to the public. A Mommy Summit is happening too, with talks on Mompreneurship, motivation, and empowerment cos once in a while, it’s good to hear from other supermamas how to do it.

If you’re more of the foodie Mom, The Gourmand Market is having a special Mother’s Day run from May 11-13 at C1 Park, Central Square. Meanwhile, McCormick invited chefs for a day of cooking demos, a food sale, and sampling at Bonifacio High Street Amphitheater.   

Nothing beats a day with mom so head on over to BGC tomorrow! More details atwww.facebook.com/BoniHighStreet. See you there BGCitizens!

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