Kaya-Iloilo recently started preparations for next month’s AFC Champions League preliminary round match against Australia’s Brisbane Roar, the club said on its website. Last season’s Philippines Football League runner-up are currently training at the Blue Pitch in Makati City after its health...
For this year’s National Arts Month celebration, Ilonggo artists have collaborated in creating a mural that speaks of realizations since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out early in 2020. In the “We Hide No More” exhibition at SM City Iloilo, Himbon Contemporary Ilonggo Artists group unveiled the...
Kaya-Iloilo poses for a team photo before its 2020 AFC Cup match against PSM Makassar in Indonesia. (PFF photo) Kaya-Iloilo will take on clubs from Malaysia, Singapore and Myanmar in the event it is relegated to play the ASEAN zonal group stage of the AFC Cup. The Philippines Football League...
Philippines Football League champion United City and Kaya-Iloilo will get to know what lies ahead in their continental stints Wednesday when the AFC holds a draw ceremony for its two club competitions. United City is assured of a direct spot in the prestigious AFC Champions League while Kaya can...
Fire and smoke are synonymous with damage and destruction. But for Ilonggo artist Marvin Dalisay , fire and smoke are natural elements for art creation. Marvin Dalisay The 31-year-old artist from the quaint coastal town of Banate in Iloilo province has been using ...
How the monumental occasion will be observed later this month, and an exclusive look at Iloilo City during the pandemic UNDYING DEVOTION Dinagyang primarily honors the Senor Sto. Nino (Photo by Mayad) At the heart of the Philippines lies the Queen of all festivals. Dagyang fever is in the air!...
Photos by Arnold Almacen The year is coming to a close and no community was spared by coronavirus disease (COVID-19), but artists in Iloilo City have managed to transform collective experience with street art. Across SM City Iloilo, artists collectively known as Baysulangpu (an anagram for the...
A tapestry portraying a conflict among a family in Iloilo has emerged as the grand prize winner of the 25th Philippine Art Awards. Melvin Guirhem ’s fabric art Failed Reconciliation may have been a personal story of pain, but mirrors the pain of many Filipino families. “It’s a...
Photos by Jules Vivas LUNCH AT ST. MARTHA'S From left: Chef Angelo Comsti, the author, MB content producer Jules Vivas, Chef Francis Lim, Chef Kalel Chan, and Richmonde Hotel Iloilo GM Natalie Lim Sometimes we travel far and wide in search of something, only to arrive at it where we travel from. I...
Riding on tradition, this year’s Tabu-an: Western Visayas Ilonggo Heritage Cooking Competition was as delightful as its past editions Photos by the author WINNER WINNER DUCK DINNER The best main course pato estofado by team four In the Philippines, only a handful of cooking tournaments can match...
So we asked key people behind some of our favorite hotels, wonderlands of hospitality, oracles of holidaymaking, what they have in store for us in this merry, merry season. It has become customary for The Manila Hotel to celebrate Filipino ingenuity and creativity through our Christmas décor at...
Holiday and hospitality in an age of uncertainty This year’s Yuletide season will be unlike any other in contemporary history. It can be disappointing to be unable to celebrate such a momentous occasion replete of the normal accoutrements of Christmas. And so, people are finding a means to...
