The far north, the northern edge of the country, the northernmost tip of the island of Luzon—these descriptions are a tonic for wanderlust, but I would in my youth drive 12 hours to Pagudpud, with a lot of stops because I had never been, or ever wanted to go, to Ilocos in a hurry. It’s...
Illustrations by Randrian Panopio Dapithapon. I’m sure my memory is playing tricks on me, but I believe that I must have encountered this word for the first time in fifth grade while my teacher, Mrs. Gualberto, was telling us about Sisa, the unfortunate character in Jose Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere...
DIPLOMATIC TRIPS First Lady Liza Araneta Marcos with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. at the Villamor Airbase before their departure to Malaysia (Photo: Noel B. Pabalate) Louise “Liza” Araneta Marcos, First Lady of the Republic of the Philippines, LAM to those who have known her, has just turned...
SO34T700 What If Beige Time is circular, although in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera wrote that “time runs ahead in a straight line,” the argument on which his definition of happiness as “the longing for repetition” is anchored. But the past is everywhere in the present...
I consider the lunch preview of the one-night-only dinner special, “The Art of Sake,” that’s coming up at Yakumi, Solaire Resort Entertainment City’s signature Japanese restaurant, on Aug. 24, as an education. Simple—that was how I used to regard sake. I’d pour it into a...
LUSH IS LUXE The VIP lounge pays homage to the country’s flora and fauna Cartier, one of the most esteemed houses in the global luxury industry, is now in a newly minted boutique in Manila, having reopened its new Philippine flagship at Greenbelt 3 in Makati City with a dramatic refresh from its...
Filipinos are no longer a stranger to *omakase*. The Japanese phrase, used at restaurants, means “entrusting” the whole dining experience to the chef, instead of ordering what one feels like eating. Although it is also often tailored to the diner’s wishes, depending on the budget, as well as...
Illustration Randrian Panopio At the height of the pandemic in 2020, I took a weeks-long online course in contemporary art from MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, but if you ask me what contemporary art is, chances are I’ll give you a blank stare. In contemporary art, however, no answer...
July has been a blast, and maybe that’s because I was in South Africa when it started and at the event of events in all of the African continent—The Hollywoodbets Durban July! BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL From left: Equine welcome to one of the VIP tents at Durban July 2023; and some of the horse racing...
Fashion is inherently political , according to Andrew Bolton, Wendy Yu curator in charge of The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Fashion functions as a mirror to our times,” he said. Vice President Sara Duterte and First Lady Liza Araneta Marcos (IG) At last Monday’s...
I might have had Gene Wilder’s song “Pure Imagination” from the movie *Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory* in mind when I got up at 3 a.m. in my room at the Temenni Evi, a charming cave hotel in Cappadocia in central Türkiye. But I rose from bed like the Wizard on a hot-air balloon, which...
ILLUSTRIOUS COOK Jereme Leung, this week’s featured chef at China Blue’s Legendary Chefs Series Jereme Leung is in town, but he won’t be here for long, only until July 23. While he’s here, you must try to book yourself a table at China Blue. He’s whipped up something special. The chef is...
