MEDIUM RARE Not a full moon, only a half-moon. It was a romantic enough touch to make Symphony at the Terrace memorable and, truly, one of a kind. But then Ed Yap, who deals in currency rather than music, is used to producing out-of-the-box events. A Christmas choral concert inside a church. Music...
MEDIUM RARE Summer – it may be hot and dry, but there’s no better time than now to bite into a crunchy fruit sweet with the juices of nature. Cook is ecstatic that singkamas are so cheap, ₱40 for a bundle of six pieces, that she finds it a mystery that not more people are buying them. Too...
MEDIUM RARE It’s a small world with big players and extensive influence. And not all that democratic. At their last election recently, 830 delegates cast their votes to represent 168 chambers. Cecilio Pedro of Hapee toothpaste smiled all the way to the top as president. He ran unopposed, which...
MEDIUM RARE What an awesome surprise, to land in the National Museum and discover that it’s no longer a museum piece but an elegant building that has aged graciously and acquired a rejuvenated life all its own, with 29 salons (or galleries) painted in modern bold colors, a network of handsome...
MEDIUM RARE Have you ever seen a cache of money laid out before you in the hundreds of millions and billions and billions? Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman opened her eyes wide and affirmed, “Yes, yes, when I was with the central bank!” At home, where she lives with her parents as an only...
MEDIUM RARE An old friend used to say that “the coolest place to be is your car,” but that was before the price of petrol hit the roof at P60 and up. Nowadays the place to cool off is the mall. As long as one is able to resist the lure of impulse buying, the mall is a safe place to crawl and...
MEDIUM RARE Ten months to prep a wedding, from the finest detail to the grandest gesture. Sixteen years to turn from sweethearts to an affianced couple, finally to Mr. and Mrs. Sixteen years? Time enough to grow a family, but Darv Diaz and Bianca Angala wanted to be sure, very sure. Were their...
MEDIUM RARE In the midst of a shortage of food and water, we’re wasting and throwing away food and water. ‘Tis summer, and as usual the National Water Resource Board’s primary source of water is to multiply its reminders for us to conserve water. What happened to the water released from the...
MEDIUM RARE Forget your K-dramas. Walk away from thrilling, gory, violent crime serials. Documentaries are interesting but not all of them are fun to watch. Introducing Philomena Cunk, if you haven’t met her yet. She’ll make you cry when you laugh, and laugh when you should be crying. All...
MEDIUM RARE It’s the end of an era when the good sisters of St. Paul University, one of a handful of schools offering bachelor and doctoral degrees in music, opens its doors for a concert, “the first time in three years,” according to Dean Raul Sunico. Opening-night honors on March 15 went to...
MEDIUM RARE If detectives and crime writers go by the cliché, “cherchez la femme” (look for the woman), when they’re trying to solve a crime, bankers and economists go by the rule to “follow the money.” People with a nose for money understand that the trail begins with how money produces...
MEDIUM RARE As Fr. Jerry Orbos used to say, three rings are the hallmark of married life. Engagement ring, wedding ring, suffering. As all other priests will tell you, suffering underlies the human condition. It’s like saying you cannot escape suffering if you’re human. Catholics are reminded...
