Author: AA Patawaran
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I love you, ma Cherie amour!
Cherie Gil, a soul too free to be contained too long in a body, is now up there with Maria Callas and Diana Vreeland.
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A gourmet traveler’s wish list at sea
Unique celebratory experiences onboard Oceania Cruises’ fleet of small, luxurious ships.
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Visions in white
Something old, something new, something borrowed bring oomph into Chris Nick’s first bridal collection.
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‘You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes’
Or so said Diana Vreeland. In what they wore to hear the President’s Report to the People, what did you think was the state of the nation?
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Midnight cravings
When these writers, solitary creatures of the night burning the midnight oil, seek to satisfy their nocturnal cravings, what do they seek to fill up—their grumbling stomachs, their hollow minds, their aching hearts, their restless souls?
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356,000 reasons why you should visit Mangrove
Sunlight Eco-Tourism Resort Culion has opened a casual dining restaurant so named to drive awareness to this unique ecosystem that’s among the richest yet most undervalued on the planet.
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The secret to happiness is in reading biographies
In biographies, everything is worth telling.
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Your Crocodile Skin City Steamer is keeping crocodiles alive
Louis Vuitton reveals the long, highly specialized process behind its wide collection of exotics.
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Little known dishes north and south of the Philippines
Filipino food champion Angelo Comsti partners up with Singapore food explorer Bryan Koh on a four hands dinner menu for the 10th edition of Amorita Resort’s culinary project Bohol Eats.
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Berna Romulo Puyat, wherever she goes
If there’s anything to learn from this indefatigable woman, it’s hard work, adaptability, and doing what we must the best way we know how.
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I spotted Nietzsche at the inaugural ball
We’re no strangers to history repeating itself. But history repeating itself is not always a bad thing. In some cases, it’s a matter of the past setting an example.
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Why Duterte had to happen
As the 16th President of the Philippines gives way to his successor on June 30, is he turning over a nation much better than he found it?
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These native orchids, in full bloom at the Manila Hotel
Gracing the lobby of the historic Manila Hotel for the pleasure of its guests this rainy season is the Grammatophyllum wallisii, a giant orchid species endemic to the Philippines. It is in full display the size of an installation art.
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Dad, here’s to you!
Fathers are, by stereotype, unsentimental, but we know their soft spot—their kids! Happy Father's Day
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Fact, fiction, and Antonio Luna
Antonio Luna definitely made the most of his 33 years and four months of his life as a Filipino. —Dr. Vivencio R. Jose