Chenee Capuyan from Davao Del Sur renders a song to give members of the media a sample of the talent she showcased in the recent 3rd Voice of McDonald’s singing competition held last April 22 in Orlando, Florida, where she bagged the grand prize.

The Voice of McDonald’s is a worldwide contest exclusive to McDonald’s crew and restaurant managers.

It has become an international stage to discover, recognize and reward the most talented singers among the 1.6 million McDonald’s restaurant employees all over the world and only one of the ways the company solidifies its commitment to employees by making all McDonald’s restaurants a fun and great place to work in.

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Filipino Show business talents and celebrities swarmed this city with a giant stage is now being set up for a grand concert led by noontime show host Willie Revillame slated on Sunday for the rally of Nacionalista Party led by its standard bearer Senator Manny Villar.

The rally will be staged at Agro Foundation grounds near the Bolton Bridge and is expected to draw a mammoth crowd, especially with Revillame hosting the program.

The concert cum rally is designed to be similar to the one staged during the Kadayawan Festival last year, which had to be stopped due to the uncooperative weather at that time.

However, the management of ABS-CBN here clarified that the event is Revillame’s own production.

Aside from Revillame, the concert will bring in dancers, bands, and a slew of celebrities.

Meanwhile, the city’s “celebrity weekend” is television host and actress Kris Aquino, youngest sister of presidential aspirant Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, who will be here for ABS-CBN’s “Pilipinas Got Talent.”

The multi-million endorser cum celebrity is expected to arrive in the city Saturday.

This April, it’s UNO Magazine’s most special offering yet, as the editors pulled the best of the best writers, artists and psychos into one huddle, giving you its first fantastic Fiction issue!

It’s stranger than truth, as literary genius and this month’s UNO guest editor, Sarge Lacuesta tells the vibrant story of Cover girl Mary-Ann Illustre, while award-winning author Yvette Tan takes you inside the blessed life of Megan in this issue’s Bombshell.

Also on Red Alert, the lost Pinoy rock goddess of the late-80s Kay Ventura, as penned by our very own celebrated writer Luis Katigbak.

All these, plus brilliant pieces made by Philippines’ most acclaimed wordsmiths: Gemino Abad, Krip Yuson, Juaniyo Arcellana, Jose Dalisay, Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta and Charlene Sawit, as well as riveting images from today’s best Filipino artists, led by power couple Arnold and Cynthia Arre, Christina Dy, Lala Gallardo-Samson, Bea Camacho and many more.

So read between the lies and grab a copy of UNO! Out on shelves today.

UNO Magazine – Dispatches for the discerning man

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Autism Speaks, the world’s largest autism science and advocacy organization, marked the third annual celebration of World Autism Awareness Day – a global effort to heighten awareness about a disorder affecting millions of individuals and families around the world – with a series of high profile awareness events and initiatives. WAAD was established by a resolution passed unanimously by the United Nations General Assembly in 2007, making autism one of only three health issues to be recognized by the UN with its own “day.”

On the evening of March 31, Autism Speaks held a reception to celebrate World Autism Awareness Day and honor world renowned artist Yoko Ono Lennon as Autism Speaks’ first Global Autism Ambassador in recognition of her work in making autism part of global consciousness. Last year on WAAD, Yoko Ono Lennon unveiled an original piece of artwork that she created for the day and auctioned it off as a fundraiser. In addition, Autism Speaks will screen a public service announcement call to action from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on WAAD.

On the eve of World Autism Awareness Day, notable buildings and landmarks around the world will be lit blue as part of Autism Speaks’ first Light It Up Blue campaign. Participating buildings include: the Bell Tower in Perth, Australia; the Kingdom Tower in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; the Bahrain World Trade Center Building, Bahrain; Toronto’s iconic CN tower; the Empire State Building, the New York Stock Exchange and Radio City Music Hall in New York; and the Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower) in Chicago. Continue Reading

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Less than a year after joining the White House as Associate Director in its Office of Public Engagement, Indian-American actor Kal Penn is returning to Hollywood.

However, a White House spokesman told The Washington Post that Penn, real name Kalpen Modi, has no announcement to make about his tenure.

“Mr Modi is honored to serve in this Administration and has no announcements to make about his tenure here at this point,” the official said.

The 32-year-old actor, best known for his roles in television programs like ‘House’ and ’24′, is returning to Hollywood to act in a movie to be directed by newcomer Todd Strauss Schulson.

The movie would begin filming in late June with an eye on release in holiday 2011.

Tiger Woods’ kindergarten teacher demanded an apology on Friday from the embattled golfer for “false accusations of physical and racial abuse.” Woods contended in a 2005 book that he was harassed and racially taunted on his first day of school, “and the teacher really didn’t do much of anything.” “The accusations against me were brought up again when Tiger’s infidelities came to light,” Maureen Decker told reporters here.

Decker said she was “shocked, saddened and disappointed” by what she called Woods’ “false accusations of physical and racial abuse on his first day of school in my kindergarten class.” “My friends and relatives started reminding me of how he slandered me and the school.

I am still feeling the stress of the allegations. I have tried numerous times to get through to Tiger or his representatives to ask for an explanation and an apology, but no one ever returned my calls,” Decker said at a news conference with her attorney, Gloria Allred. Decker, 69, said she wants a private and public apology from Woods.

Decker was Woods’ kindergarten teacher at Cerritos Elementary School in Anaheim of Los Angeles in 1981-82. In the Charles Barkley book “Who’s Afraid of a Large Black Man?,” Woods is quoted as saying: “I became aware of my racial identity on my first day of school, on my first day of kindergarten.

A group of sixth graders tied me to a tree, spray-painted the word (racial epithet) on me, and threw rocks at me. That was my first day of school. And the teacher really didn’t do much of anything. “I used to live across the street from the school and kind of down the way a little bit. The teacher said, `Okay, just go home.’ Continue Reading