Until March 14, you can book Bohol for 70 percent off PHILIPPINE WONDER The Chocolate Hills, one of Bohol’s most famous tourist destination (Photo by Per-Andre Hoffman) Bohol is my most favorite Philippine destination. Sure, crowd favorite Boracay has the world’s best beaches, unrivaled by any...
How the Cultural Center of the Philippines is marrying tradition with modernity INSTRUMENTAL Kubing , a Philippine jaw harp from bamboo With well over 50 years of providing and preserving our cultural heritage through the arts, once again, CCP is opening its doors to Filipino artists who crave to...
THE COWS OF US If a cow shares the horrors of being dinner, would you empathize By Cacai Buenviaje Illustations by Ariana Maralit In the year 2030, an inventor created a device that enabled cow language to be automatically translated to human speech. The invention quickly gained global attention...
When it comes to movies about talking animals, Netflix has a very extensive library. Here are three of the bright spots in their collection By Richard Leo Ramos Pets United In an age of hero-team movies, why not a team movie about our furry friends? That’s what Pets United is about. It follows...
As the humans of companion animals, we’re living in extraordinary times. Many of us are working from home, so we now have the time to slow down with our animal kiddos. By Janina Castro I’m among those who are now permanently on a work-from-home arrangement. I get to spend it with my four...
This is part of a series reviewing local AV productions highlighting the best of Filipino creativity. In adult animation Hayop Ka , it takes animals to hold a mirror up to our human, all-too-human selves CAT MEETS DOGS From left: Robin Padilla as the muscular mongrel Roger Europeo, Angelica...
Fiction FEISTY FELINE A Persian cat named Wallis Simpson (Photo by the author) Wallis the golden-haired cat somehow finds her way to the street. It’s dark and there is hardly anybody, except those who snore noisily from behind the dark windows. Overhead, the moon hovers and it smolders in...
How to love animals (not pets) the right way Pets. You either love them or you do. Various studies prove that interacting with these domesticated animals reduces stress. More often than not, people perceive their furry companions as peers or family members rather than being a property. While there...
Advice on how to mix marriage and money Valentine’s Day is commonly celebrated as a day of love. It escapes us that this day is meant to celebrate the life of St. Valentine . He was a Christian bishop who was killed in 270 AD. He lived in Central Italy and was responsible for secretly solemnizing...
Our reality and the pieces of ourselves we tend to forget Illustration by Samy Löwe William Shakespeare wrote in A Midsummer Night’s Dream , “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is wing’d cupid painted blind.” Does it still ring true in this day and age? A...
KUNG HEI FAT CHOY! Forecast and visual courtesy of Lillian Too and her Philippine representative, Ollay Aninion
Celebrating arts month in the most interesting of times QUEEN OF ARTS NAM 2021 officially opened with a short program involving arts ambassador Catriona Gray, NCCA chairman Nick Lizaso, and other NCCA executives at the Metropolitan Theater British philosopher Bertrand Russell once said that...
