Enhance the festive season, and all seasons for that matter, with these five top-of-the-line tipples As we embrace the new normal and new trends in celebrating Christmas, let us not forget the important Filipino tradition ever present on any occasion, the inuman . The widespread pandemic shouldnot...
How to inject pride and patriotism in these times TABLE THERAPY Jane's setup “Since the lockdown started and the kids can’t go out, I decided to make Sunday lunches extra special for my family. I started buying tablecloths and a variety of plates, cutlery, and glasses, so they will feel like we...
FRUIT OF FUTURE Zac Sarian holding a Florida pummelo If you don’t know Zac Sarian , you don’t know the future. But that’s because the future is—or should be—about a dramatic return to a green planet, where green, live things will soon reclaim what we razed forests to the ground for, what...
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...
Christmas at home will be the New Normal this holiday season. For my generation, it is nothing new; it was our Old Normal. We were raised by parents and grandparents who lived through the horrors of war and hunger. Our upbringing prepared us for the restrictions and shortages of the Covid-19...
Industry experts to discuss the PH arts and culture scene amid the pandemic Industry experts will answer one of the most crucial questions today in the Philippine arts and culture scene highly affected by the coronavirus pandemic: What becomes of the Filipino artists and the industry in a world...
Artists supporting artists BETWEEN THE LINES Gina Osterloh questions our notion of self identity Despite the current Covid-19 health crisis, kindness and cooperation are pervasive. This holds true even in the art industry. To celebrate Filipino talent, Italian Ambassador Giorgio Guglielmino...
Art is life and living is art For almost a year now, Covid-19 has taken over our lives, having stopped the world in its tracks. We could say momentarily, but this moment has stretched over eight months. In the same way, the pandemic has jumpstarted a new era, the fourth industrial revolution. Among...
So what if it will take a long time before the pandemic is over and we are free to travel the world again? We have El Nido and we’ll always have El Nido ROCK AND ROLL El Nido is famous for its gorgeous rock formations I’ve been to El Nido a lot, but upon arriving at El Nido airport, I would be...
Halloween is not canceled this year. It's the creepiest yet. Move aside, plague doctor costume! Nothing is more symbolic of the scariest Halloween in years than our masks and our face shields and the invisible six-foot pole we have to keep between us and the next person. But it's also time to walk...
The politics of Sadness Illustrations by Ariana Maralit And in the remote capital of our wildest imagination, one day, to our collective shock, the government ceased all operations, focused only on the one thing none of us ever imagined would deserve its full attention: Sadness. “What...
Like guests in one’s own country. That’s how visiting a museum can make you feel. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it does show how there’s so much about our own society’s history, cultural heritage, art, and even natural history that we don’t know—or, at least, don’t know...
