THIS WAY TO PARADISE Manami Resort, perched on a lush cove on the shores of Sipalay Sea, is the first and only luxury resort in the area I’m in Sipalay, where I’ve never been. It’s as far from my life by plane as the usual places—Boracay, Palawan, Bohol, Cebu, Iloilo—but it’s much...
THE PIANIST'S PIANIST Cecile Licad Performance photos by Jojo Mamangun At some point during the one-night-only American Ballet Theater (ABT) Studio Company “Rising Stars” performance in Manila, at the Samsung Performing Arts Theater at Circuit Makati, I was unsure whether to focus on Cecile...
FRIENDS WHO TRAVEL TOGETHER TravelingBFFsPH in Nagasaki “Wanderlust is real,” said International Journey’s Kem Aldrich Lim to me when I asked him how the travel industry was recovering from the disruption caused by the pandemic. He and eight other travel agents, including Skynet Travel...
POETIC GENIUS Cecile Licad, 'the best Chopin interpreter,' at her Nelly's Garden concert (Jon Unson) Does sunshine make a sound? Do the clouds in the sky make the softest whisper? At world-acclaimed Filipino artist Cecile Licad ’s piano concert at Nelly’s Garden, the Lopez Heritage House in...
PERTH AFTER DARK The Australians are the earliest in the world to call it a day and also the earliest to wake up in the morning We took off at 12:05 a.m., just when Manila’s legendary nightlife was starting to heat up, and landed shortly after dawn in Perth, roughly 20 minutes after the average...
Featured image: SPIRITS ON HIGH Solaire head sommelier Daniel Blais and guest bar and wine experts Hakihiro Igarashi, Élyse Lambert, and Luis de Santos What do Enrico Bartolini of Milan, Rene Frank of Berlin, Alvin Leung of Hong Kong and Canada, Tohru Nakamura of Munich, and Rui Silvestre of...
Images Justin Louise Soriano There is a vulnerability about Heart Evangelista that is exquisite and captivating. Never does she stride or strut into a room; often she saunters, sometimes hesitates, even as in her role as a fashion icon, she is expected to walk tall, make big steps, execute a grand...
CHIBI COLLECTION Karen Fontilla's collection of chibi saints While scrolling through her Facebook newsfeed one day, an image of a tiny Santo Niño de Cebu caught the eye of Karen Fontillas. She instantly wanted one for her brother who collected sacred images of the Child Jesus. Little did she know...
