Illustration by Randrian Panopio Life has to make sense on the page. Whether in an essay or a short story or a film script or a children’s book or a memoir, especially in a news report or a scientific journal or an expose or a personality profile, maybe even in a poem or a stream of...
’ Ber is back, and really back, more back than it was last year, more back than ever since the last time in 2019, just before the world stood still the following year and the years that came next. ’Ber is back, so is beso beso (air kisses) as parties, galas, and balls return with a vengeance....
Since its launch in 2014, the park has become home to a mangrove and coastal forest, almost 100 endemic migratory bird species, marine animals, and the critically endangered hawksbill, green sea, and olive ridley turtles. In 2017, a female pawikan (turtle), exhausted and injured from forcing her...
ALL FOR WOMEN Zontians of Zonta International District 17, from left: Beging Soriano, Susan Lim, Dandy Gomez, Baby Perez Sison, Olivia Aguinaldo Ferry, Lia Bautista, Rita Dy, and Tess Rayos del Sol “A better world for women is a better world,” declared Olivia Aguinaldo-Ferry, past international...
DESIGNERS FOR A CAUSE From left: Rajo Laurel, Martin Bautista, Andrea Tetangco, Mark Bumgarner, and Avel Bacudio She walked onto the massive catwalk in a blue Martin Bautista dress, and she took our breaths away, drew a tear or two from many eyes. She walked with crutches, but with a spring in her...
In celebration of its first decade on a mission to help children battling cancer, the I Want to Share (IWTS) Foundation threw a charity gala at the grand ballroom of the Shangri-La The Fort, BGC, on Friday, Sept. 15. The cancer warriors in Rajo Laurel creations The Maserati up for auction In...
Josh Boutwood and Jorge Mendez It’s nothing short of a dream for the foodie if Manila’s superchefs pair up to come up with a dish together! Think of Margarita Forés and Jordy Navarra as a tag team, or Nicco Santos and Miko Calo. There’s also Stephan Duhesme becoming a duo with Don Baldosano...
YOU CAN HAVE MORE OF WHAT YOU GIVE AWAY From left: Pinky Antonio, Steven Tan, Talia Asuncion, Sheila Romero, Suzette Ayson, Robby Carmona, and Dey Dimaandal (Excel Panlaque, Lifestyle Asia / AGC PHC) This Friday, help roll out the red carpet for resilience, a trait we must put on and celebrate more...
EDITORS DESK Those, like us, who are at once blessed and cursed to be alive in these exciting, terrifying times, have been raised on a diet of technophobic novels like 1968’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick and films like 1984’s The Terminator and 2001’s A.I. It’s only...
Philip Cruz with son Maki and wife Ching White is the perfect theme for your 75th birthday party, the third time you’re marking 25 years. Set off against white, all memories, all dreams of the future are at their colorful best, clear and vivid and celebratory. From left, clockwise: Rosemarie Chu,...
A TOUCHING STORY Orhan Pamuk's seventh novel, The Museum of Innocence, centers around a man from a wealthy family falling for a beautiful shopgirl In the flourish of the movies, after I turned the last page of The Museum of Innocence by 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for Literature awardee Orhan Pamuk, I...
Young chef Don Baldosano, the genius and provocateur behind Linamnam, is at the moment laser-focused on whipping up dishes from produce no longer available from the yields of commercial farms. PROVOCATEUR Young chef Don Baldosano The 24-year-old chef is collaborating with a farm in Calaca, Batangas...
