First Vita Plus Marketing Corporation president/CEO Rhodora 'Doyee' Tactacan-Tumpalan Rhodora “Doyee” Tactacan-Tumpalan is no stranger to the world of business. Having grown up in a family that brought life to Marikina City’s booming shoe factory empire, she had spent a good chunk of...
Betty Sy (far right), at the Sining Filipina Awarding Ceremony Sining Filipina is a nationwide art competition for women, which is in its second year. With intent, the competition culminated in an awarding ceremony at the end of March, making it part of SM Supermalls’ Women’s Month...
Kultura has a stand alone store at the second floor of the Greenhills Mall, and it’s a new, wonderfully open concept, with a layout that’s spread over two floors of merchandise. Visibly excited over the items and store design were Senator Grace Poe, Kultura’s Brand Ambassador Marian...
KMC Savills President and CEO Mike McCollough, with Cat and Tomy Florencio, Jerahmeel Chen, and Joe Curran. Sotheby’s International Realty had its official launch here in the Philippines the other week. Held at the Peninsula Manila Hotel, several luxury real estate developers welcomed the...
MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU Star Wars bustsxby Sean Go Vivid Realms is the group exhibit currently running at the Leon Gallery International until the 4th of April. While the eight featured artists all fall under 30 years of age; there’s a refreshing maturity, confidence, and freedom...
The often used phrase is ‘hard of hearing’; so I was happy to turn this into a play-on-words, and use my title to highlight a worthy event that’s happening this April 7 2025, at the Discovery Primea, Makati. It’s a heart-warming event as Art, Food, Hospitality, and Social Enterprise...
A BRIGHT NIGHT At the DGT Central Park Two powerhouse companies, the YHEST Realty and Development Corp. and Cebu Landmasters Inc. (CLI) have joined forces to masterplan and manage a 22-hectare area in Davao City, located in the Matina district. In the midst of the densely populated...
ARGENTINIANS IN MANILA Argentine consul Fabricio Sordoni and Antonio with furry friends Malthe and Gaucho Antonio Ressano carries with him the spirit of two worlds, half-Portuguese and half-Argentinian by blood and by heart, yet it’s in Manila where he found his home. He arrived 20 years...
With the battle cry of ‘It’s Not Just a Book Fair, It’s a Book Experience’, the Philippine Book Fair was launched March 13, and will run until Sunday, March 16. Mounted by the National Book Development Board, the Board’s Chairman Dante Francis Ang II, and Executive Director Charisse A....
The Gallery C at Conrad was a warm, abuzz center of art appreciation, family support, and newly forged friendship; as an appreciative crowd gathered for the opening of Kara Pangilinan’s Woman in Progress exhibit. I overheard several saying it was the first time they were viewing her works, and...
IMMACULATE TASTE The buro-inspired Fregola by Boutwood and Callo The Child Protection Network (CPN) Philippines had their annual fundraising dinner, and for a change, had three chefs on board - Miko Callo, Josh Boutwood, and Shangri-la’s Executive Chef Joris Rycken. It was a five-course...
Jude Tiotuico is coming close to two decades of creating exquisite metal work and sculptures that are statement pieces at several stately homes and public spaces. Based in Pampanga, his Industria showroom at Greenbelt Residences, Makati, is where his creations find a way to reach a wider...
