JANOD Confetti Musical Set Halloween is over, which means Christmas is just around the corner. In some households in the Philippines, where the Yuletide season begins as soon the brrr months (weather used to turn cooler in September) set in, merry begins when spooky ends. Out with the witch’s...
MEET THE CHEFS Bela Rieck, Don Baldosano, Jorge Mendez, and Javier Low Inspired by the Japanese word kensu , “to bring together,” Mirèio at Raffles Makati recently presented a 12-course, eight-hands dinner featuring its executive chef Bèla Rieck, Manila’s Don Baldosano of Linamnam and Jorge...
A CULTURE RICH IN MYTHS Creatures of Philippine folklore (Artworks by Charm Singson) These creatures—mythical to some, as real to others as the mayas perched on the treetops—have haunted the dark corners of the archipelago for centuries before Magellan set foot on Philippine shores in 1521. Not...
COCKTAIL CRAFTSMANSHIP Altos Bartenders' Bartender GN Chan at his bar Double Chicken Please, New York, second in this year's World's 50 Best Bars; also on this page, below, are snippets of the success story that GN Chan and his bar Double Chicken Please have become (Screenshots from a video...
Do you know Joseph Severn? If you did, it’s maybe only because of John Keats. He was the portraitist and painter who agreed to accompany the English poet when, afflicted with tuberculosis, of which his two brothers and his mother before him died, Keats decided to take refuge in the warmer climate...
From Instagram masskarafestival23 When the going gets tough, the tough get going. In the case of the Bacolodnons, especially back in the 1980s, when everything that could go wrong went wrong in Bacolod—a sugar crisis, a famine, a luxury liner, the MV Don Juan , sinking off the coast of Mindoro,...
MARINE SPECTACLE The beachfront of Discovery Samal is the doorstep to the expanse and undulations of the gulf of Davao, where seacows and whale sharks, along with at least 10 species of toothed whales and dolphins, are seen quite often Why haven’t I heard of Samal Island before? It has all the...
Sips, Barcelona, Spain For the first time since it came into being in 2009, the unveiling of the World's 50 Best Bars , the definitive annual list of the best of the best of the international drinks industry, is held this year outside of Europe. Double Chicken Please, New York The list for 2023,...
SUSTAINABILITY CHAMPIONS From left: Native's Vijay Mudaliar, Metiz's Stephan Duhesme, Toyo Eatery's Jordy Navarra, Labyrinth's LG Han, ACE's Angelo Comsti At the core of food writer, book author, and culinary champion Angelo Comsti’s Asian Culinary Exchange (ACE), a passion project he launched...
PURE BEADWORK Jo Ann Bitagcol in the finale of Ivarluski Aseron's 53-piece collection You could say it took Ivarluski Aseron, the featured designer at this year’s Red Charity Gala, the 12th since it started in 2009, over three years to prepare for the ball. Anyone would have taken their...
HISTORY OVER LUNCH At one of the panoramic balconies of the Lobkowicz Palace, from left: Jeremy Favia, Berg Go, the author, Joanne Rae Ramirez, Maros Martin Gouth, and Michal Procházka I’ve been to Prague more times than I’ve been to Paris, and always I would go to the Discalced Carmelite...
ENTER THE MEGALOPOLIS Hann Resorts is located at the Clark Freeport and Special Economic Zone (CFEZ) There’s so much room for the future at the Clark Freeport and Special Economic Zone (CFEZ) in Central Luzon. Geographically, what we remember roughly as the former US military base has the...
