Chef Chele Gonzalez The No. 72 restaurant on Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2025 has formally announced its entry into the catering market! On a warm but buoyant evening, Chef Chele Gonzalez, who leads the ranked Gallery by Chele at BGC and Asador Alfonso in Cavite, joined his wife, Teri, in...
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...
The online buzz surrounding “CLVB” caught the attention of the internet community after various content creators and social media influencers shared different theories on what it is about. Curiosity grew after most of them anonymously received invitations from an unidentified source, fueling...
Stress is our normal response to circumstances that are challenging physically, mentally, and emotionally. But what happens when we get a sudden feeling of fear and worry in the absence of a threat and under normal situations? The pulse quickens and may escalate to a pounding or racing...
CLINICAL MATTERS The Department of Health recently reported that 7,598 cases of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) were diagnosed between Jan. 1 and Feb. 22, 2025. This is about three times the number of cases from the same period last year and is most likely an underestimation of the...
Breakfast just got better at Italianni’s. On March 14, The Bistro Group invited us to its Bonifacio High Street location to showcase its expanded breakfast menu and announce its availability in 16 branches across the country. Served daily starting March 17, from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. (except at...
HANDS ON These students learn the important job skill of creative thinking in their high school visual art classes (Photo Business Wire) What sets job candidates apart from one another or from artificial intelligence (AI) in the workforce? A report by the World Economic Forum noted that...
RIVERBANK , oil on canvas, 2025 The lingering warmth of a remembered sunset, the soft echo of waves on a distant shore, the endless green fields under a vast sky - these were the impressions left by Orley Ypon’s “ Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa” at Galerie Joaquin. The exhibit was a journey into...
Theatre Group Asia (TGA) announces veteran playwright, screenwriter, actor and singer Rody Vera as the Narrator/Mysterious Man in its production of Stephen Sondheim’s Into The Woods this coming August, to be held at the Samsung Performing Arts Theater (S-PAT). Vera has been performing on...
Image: Freepik Summer afternoon , the two most beautiful words in the English language, said Henry James—and I agree, but maybe because if I were a morning person, I would spend the early hours getting productive, knowing I would spend the evening getting creative, and the...
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...
