Manila at its party best shows up all dressed in white at a welcome party for Coralie Charriol POWER WOMAN Charriol International CEO and creative director Coralie Charriol Paul wearing the St. Tropez Watch and St. Tropez Mariner Necklaces and Earrings (Cover design by Jules Vivas) Sunset on the...
This idyllic town nestled in the ‘Vietnamese Alps’ has until lately been beyond reach, except to the most intrepid of travelers THE ROOFTOP OF INDOCHINA Above the clouds on the Fansipan summit, the highest peak in all of Indochina I might have been in Grasse on the scent of Jean-Baptiste...
When there’s a restlessness in us that allows us to feel at home only while looking at possibilities beyond the horizon Photos by the author SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND A moment of contemplation in Delft, the Netherlands I used to think I’d end up in New York. Paris was wishful thinking. Still,...
I was born too late to watch Joan Crawford and Bette Davis rule Hollywood, with popcorn No one has verified it, but when Joan Crawford, shining star of Hollywood’s Golden Age, died in 1977, her archenemy Bette Davis, just as legendary a leading lady on the American silver screen, was quoted to...
I’ll have what F. Scott Fitzgerald was having, if it involved copious amounts of champagne A MILLIONAIRE'S DRINK Leonardo de Caprio as Jay Gatsby in the film adaptation of the book The Great Gatsby If life were fiction, I’d want it to be F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby , if only...
I think I died and went to heaven—Margot Robbie BEACH PLEASE Robbie Margot swimming in the azure waters of Palawan A year before the 2016 release of her DC movie Suicide Squad , Australian star Margot Robbie posted a snap of herself basking in emerald waters on Instagram and captioned it: “I...
I’d be in... Venice in 1962 THE NYMPET'S ALL GROWN UP Sue Lyon, who played Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, sunning herself on a gondola under the Venetian sky, circa 1962 And catch a glimpse of Sue Lyon sunning herself on a gondola, all grown up after having caught world attention for playing Lolita...
REFLECTIONS TODAY Obviously, it is Jesus who is greater than the Temple. But the Pharisees do not realize this. They question why his disciples pick heads of grain and eat them on a Sabbath. They are violating the law. Among others, works prohibited on Sabbath are: sowing, plowing, reaping, binding...
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE Dr. Raymund W. Lo Amid the rising number of Covid cases, people are starting to feel anxious again, if not panicking outright. Sure, there’s a definite upward trend, but we’re still not seeing the number of hospitalizations and ICU occupancy that we saw in the initial and...
Crimson Hotel Filinvest City welcomes June with artists celebrating the LGBTQIA+ spirit Since the 1990s, the Philippines has dedicated the month of June to celebrating the LGBTQIA+ Community with Pride March. This peace protest calls attention to the ongoing concerns queer folks continue to face...
Yes, if going by the recent recommendation of Metro Manila mayors to place the National Capital Region (NCR) under the least restrictive Alert Level 1 starting March 1, 2022. As other countries and cities abroad grapple with soaring new COVID cases, our country seems to be out of the danger zone...
New Friends Alternative Pop band, New Friends is thrilled to release their new album “The Pilot” with their lead single, “Right Here.” New Friends says,“We’re excited to bring all the tracks we have released as a band together on one cohesive album along with our new single “Right...
