Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri Dignitaries, legislators, and peace advocates trooped to the old Senate Session Hall at the National Museum of Fine Arts recently for the launch of Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri’s The Road to Peace: Crafting the Bangsamoro Organic Law . Senator Juan...
FRESH CATCH Rajo shows off fish bought fresh from a fisherman Rajo Laurel has been on top of his game as a Filipino designer for decades. To me, although glamour and style are his medium, a medium at which he is most adept, is a truthseeker, always trying to get to the bottom of things, to...
Ernest Escaler and Josie Natori The First Lady Liza Araneta Marcos with one of this year's donors Chole Cuenca Chua It takes only one person to achieve greatness, but it takes more than a village, maybe a whole country or a whole continent, to honor that greatness, even much more to...
SUPPORTING TALENT With Mr Vietnam World 2024 and Mr World first runnerup Tuan Ngoc Pham and Mr Philippines World 2024 Kirk Bondad Jojie Dingcong can spot diamonds in the roughest of the rough. Even at dinner parties, he doesn’t hesitate to point out what deserves praise in the shyest of...
As it does every year in Manila, the Tatler Ball ended 2024’s ball season with a bang. More than Halloween, this belle of balls, held every year in November by Tatler Philippines, headed by Irene Martel Francisco, managing director, and Anton San Diego, editor in chief, signals the...
JAM ALONG One of Michelline’s favorite pastimes is to sing while playing the guitar Michelline Syjuco, Goth princess, artist, sculptor, jeweler, surrealist, avantgardist, is my Halloween dream come true. The year is about to end, and I had only seen her once this year, maybe twice last...
Sometimes, I don’t know if I’m well. It’s not about looking A-OK when you are rotting away inside. I feel good and bad at the same time on some days that I get confused which is which. When I was younger, I thought it was because I was writing all the time, expressing...
LAND OF ROMANCE Cypress trees grace the background of the couple's wedding at The Vineyard Commitment is a strange virtue. It’s a decision to turn your back on infinite possibilities so you can dedicate yourself to only one person, one out of legions of people at any given time, some of whom, if...
THE SUNDAY DRILL ALONE IN CHANG MAI Downtime at a quaint hotel along the Mae Ping River after a Thai modular cooking lesson with French-Israeli food scholar Dr. Hanuman Aspler. She was the lone guest at the hotel To Gaggan-trained Rhea Rizzo, the chef behind the dining destination Mrs. Saldo’s,...
THE SUNDAY DRILL SUNDAY COMFORT Monique Madsen lounging at home in a Natori kaftan I met Monique Madsen in the middle of nowhere, on the high seas of Hong Kong, aboard the Genting Dream, a 151,300-ton, 335-meter-long, 40-meter-wide, and 18-deck-tall dream of a cruise ship run by Dream Cruises out...
Tim Yap It can be liberating to not be good, to not be right, to not be proper, to not be virtuous. But the consequences would be disastrous. So every year, we have Halloween, the nightmare before Christmas when even Santa Claus takes a break from making a list and checking it...
DAILY DOSE OF LITERATURE Bits of poetry by local authors are placed along panels and wraparounds of Singapore's MRT This is what we ought to do. If we cannot make our writers rich or, OK, at the very least, if we cannot pay them enough, then we can give them the exposure, the support,...
