SB19 Just Had Its Best Week in Japan. The Country Hadn’t Even Met Them Yet.
A festival slot, a TV debut, a Spotify feature, and a sold-out CD, all in one week. SB19 is building Japan deliberately, not just touring through it.
Author: Ely Valendez
Jose Carlos Paras Won a Crown. Then Came Adulting.
He’s the first Filipino Mister National Universe. He’s also 22, a breadwinner, and just graduated — turns out a crown doesn’t skip you past adulting.
Jeramie Sanico-Heitmann Left Tawag ng Tanghalan Mid-Run. A Decade Later, She Got Four Chairs on The Voice Australia.
Jeramie Sanico walked away from Tawag ng Tanghalan a decade ago. She just got a four-chair turn on The Voice Australia — her first stage since.
Queen of the Islands Looks Like Movie Marketing. Its Producer Won’t Call It That.
A new pageant with a ₱25-million prize appeared out of nowhere in July. Everyone assumes it’s secretly advertising a movie. Its own producer won’t confirm that.
ALV Just Replaced Miss Grand Philippines With Seven Pageants at Once
ALV lost the Miss Grand Philippines franchise this year. Its replacement, Miss Island Philippines, is built to feed seven international pageants at once — and it’s not as new an idea as it sounds.
Meet The Miss Philippines Queens Competing Internationally: The Full List
Bea Millan-Windorski wasn’t the only queen crowned May 10. Seven other women picked up international sashes under The Miss Philippines — here’s who they are.
Arca South Used to Feed the Country. Now It Sells the Feeling of One.
Before it was Taguig’s newest Ayala mall, this 74-hectare estate was a Marcos-era food terminal built to stabilize prices for Filipino farmers. Here’s what replaced it.
Kristzan Delos Santos Is Giving Pageantry One More Shot
At 32, Kristzan Delos Santos had already decided that pageantry was behind him. It had given him what it was going to give him: two international runner-up finishes, one in 2022, one in 2023, both close enough to sting and neither one his. Then he went back to work. His life moved on. The pageants, he assumed, were someone else’s story now. Then, in 2025, he happened to watch a male national pageant. That same day — not a week later, not after he’d slept on it — a screening poster for Misters of Filipinas, the annual national competition that sends Filipino male titleholders to a slate of international pageants, showed up on his feed. “Something about the timing felt like a sign,” Kristzan tells ELYSPLANET. “It sparked something in me again and made me think, ‘Maybe I’m not done yet.’” Apparently, he wasn’t. On Sept. 13, Kristzan flies to Istanbul, Türkiye, carrying the Philippine sash into the Top Model of Universe finals. He’ll also be carrying a considerable amount of luggage — the unavoidable …
Manila Marriott’s Moonfest Comes With a Spicy Beef Mooncake
Manila Marriott’s first Mid-Autumn Festival campaign comes with a Spicy Beef mooncake, a Michelin-Selected kitchen, and an influencer speaking Hokkien.
& Juliet Auditions Survive Manila’s Worst Flooding in Years
Auditions for & Juliet pushed through Manila’s worst flooding in years — FHTC’s jukebox musical is heading to the still-unfinished Westside Resort.