London’s Royal Opera House to sell Hockney painting to survive COVID crisis

LONDON - London’s Royal Opera House is to sell a 1970s painting by David Hockney as it seeks to raise cash to get through the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic, the worst crisis in its history.

From farm to table, literally

ROOTS run deep in a family-owned tree plantation in Pangasinan. The plantation, owned by the Sebastian family, produces wood furniture straight from the trees planted on their own land, resulting in a product that is truly from farm to (a) table.

Arts & Culture (03/24/21)

MUSICAL director Rony Fortich will be holding online musical theater workshops for children and teens in May.

Rockestra 2018: MSO goes beyond Mozart

THE MANILA Symphony Orchestra (MSO) has given us some of the best classical music performances in the country, and from time to time, they do small-scale collaborations with other artists on fusion genres and add some musical variety to their plate.

Malaysia’s biggest coffee chain expands to Manila; targets 150 stores by year’s end

VENON TIAN, Chief Operations Officer of ZUS Coffee, looks like he doesn’t have time for joking around. After ZUS Coffee’s founding in 2019, they’ve...

The adidas Nite Jogger: a simple, straight-forward go-to shoe

LIFESTYLE and streetwear line adidas Originals recently shored up its product range in the country with the launch of the updated version of the Nite Jogger.

The little chef

Liquid nitrogen and Michelin stars. The importance of tomatoes. WORDS  POLA ESGUERRA DEL MONTE | PHOTOGRAPHY  CHRIS GALLEGOS Once upon a time, there lived The Little Chef,...

Style (07/19/21)

ACCORDING to an international study in 2015 by the United Nations for LGBT Equality, 10% of the world’s population identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community.

Nike Air VaporMax features maximum cushioning

RUNNERS OUT to get maximum cushioning and protection have another shoe to check out for their needs as Nike recently launched its latest innovative...

Sassa’s whimsy

THE MID-2000s were a great time to be a certain kind of designer. The full effects of the looming financial crunch that would define the latter part of the 2000s would not be felt yet, and it was okay to be rich. The shock and vulgarity of the early 2000s, playing with reality TV and the early days of mainstream internet have slightly worn off. Styles in this present decade have sobered up, but the years before it showed a special kind of wealthy wearer: she wasn’t the teen in metallics and glitter of the early 2000s, best exemplified by Paris Hilton. This was a buttoned-up rich girl with a sense of fun, say like the present Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.

The Wine Similes for Presidentiables

By Sherwin A. Lao
WE are now just weeks away from our extremely crucial presidential election, and the poll frenzy is close to peaking as seen in the intensifying propaganda hurled at each other by the candidates’ camps.

Art, antiques, and furniture at León Gallery’s Mid-Year Auction

A RARE three-panel collaboration by Mauro Malang Santos, Ang Kiukok and Hugo Yonzon, Jr. called Goddesses is one of the highlights of León Gallery’s upcoming The Spectacular Mid-Year Auction 2020 on June 20.