This month, let’s explore the latest in crime fiction from all over the globe, and then do some historical sleuthing, and get engrossed in new sci-fi - one with a great premise. Gaslight by Femi Kayode Set in Lagos, Nigeria, this is the second crime fiction work of Kayode, and it...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Held annually on the fourth Sunday of January, the Dinagyang Festival of Iloilo City is a religious and cultural affair held in honor of the Santo Niño. The word Dinagyang is Hiligaynon, and means “merrymaking.” Originally similar to the Kalibo...
Landco Pacific Corporation president and CEO Erickson Y. Manzano, and construction management head Philip Baguisa received the ACES (Asia Corporate Excellence and Sustainability) Award 2023 for premium real estate developer as one of Asia's top performing companies. Landco Pacific...
Sakagura at One Bonifacio High Street Mall realizes Carlo Lorenzana’s dream project – creating a typical Japanese sake/izakaya bar for Filipinos to enjoy without leaving the country. On the evening I joined Carlo and Jackie, it was for a collaboration with Sagagyu and Mayon Consolidated Inc....
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL The annual World Economic forum at Davos happened last week. If you recall, our President Bong Bong Marcos attended the 2023 edition; and that was a great success in establishing globally what his assuming the office represented, and...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL While 124 may not seem to be a very special or auspicious number in itself, the Manila Bulletin’s 124th Anniversary, which happens in February, will take on a significance of its own this year, powered by the fact that it’ll coincide with...
At the Steak & Fries long bar One will encounter the metaphor “salad days” in Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra, as Cleopatra refers to when she was younger, green, and learning the ropes. Steak & Frice (S&F) at Central Square, BGC, is currently in its soft opening phase, with...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Writing about Philippine tourism over my last two columns, some readers reached out to me and remarked that perhaps I was too critical of what seems to be our game plan, of pointing out our deficiencies when compared to our ASEAN neighbors. To those...
DAVAO CITY – Prominent businessman Philip “Sonny” Dizon, owner of the Crocodile Park here and food producer Dizon Farms, passed away on Sunday morning, January 7, in a road crash on the Bansalan-Balutakay Road in Davao del Sur. DIZON ( Councilor Danilo C. Dayanghirang FB) The Bansalan Police...
Forget the notion about women authors and chick-lit; here, we have four ladies exploring dark humor, end-of-days SciFi, historical fiction, and outrageous comedy. And our male writers aren’t slouches either; we present a music-related mystery and an environmental social comedy. Happy New Year!...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL In this column last Sunday, I tried to place our tourism efforts within a regional ASEAN context. This was not to belittle what gains we had made throughout 2023; but in the hope that by studying how other ASEAN nations are faring, we might...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Happy New Year! And here’s to a brighter, better year ahead. It’s good to be optimistic, and I won’t argue with those who say it’s rewarding to think positive with the ‘good news’; but I only hope that we recognize how context, truth,...
