Your Weekend Guide (November 29, 2019)
RUSTANS.COM has unveiled its online-only Black Friday Cyber Monday deals.
Dining In/Out (08/07/25)
DISCOVERY SAMAL opens The Bistro, a refined dining concept nestled beside its villa pool.
NY fashion labels turn to making face masks to fill health care shortages
NEW YORK fashion designers are offering to produce masks and gowns to help fill the shortage of protective equipment needed to deal with the expanding coronavirus outbreak.
Fashion’s plastics problem isn’t about packaging
By David Fickling
UNTIL the rise of online retail, you might have been forgiven for thinking that all apparel was shipped in burlap sacks. Those wanting their...
Actress Jessica Alba to step down as creative chief at Honest Company
PERSONAL care and baby products maker Honest Company said on Tuesday its founder, actress Jessica Alba, would be stepping down from her role as...
The fear factor behind that culinary F word
WHEN is a restaurant like a handbag? A private dining room reservation — drink pairing included — for 12 people at the coming Kyoto residency of Danish chef Rene Redzepi’s Noma costs around $16,000. You can spend that much on a single pink Birkin bag from Hermes on the secondary market. Yes, used.
Veteran comedian Ernesto ‘Don Pepot’ Fajardo, 88
VETERAN comedian, actor, host, and writer Ernesto Fajardo, best known as “Don Pepot,” passed away on the evening of Jan. 18, his son Michael Fajardo confirmed on social media. The actor was 88 years old.
K-pop’s BLACKPINK to release new song ahead of 9-month world tour
SEOUL — South Korean K-pop girl group BLACKPINK revealed their new song “Pink Venom” on Friday, their first single in nearly two years, ahead of a planned nine-month world tour.
Nolan got personal to summon his miracle of Dunkirk
DUNKIRK, FRANCE -- History -- some of it intensely personal -- leaned heavily on Christopher Nolan when he was making his wartime epic Dunkirk,...
An enthralling stage adaptation of a film
IN 2023, a tense, thrilling drama consisting of two men talking in a restaurant took the first (and only) Summer Metro Manila Film Festival by storm. Eventually, the movie found its way onto Prime Video, and now it has gradually gained attention through its stage adaptation.
Missouri woman sentenced for trying to steal Graceland from Elvis Presley’s family
A MISSOURI woman was sentenced to nearly five years in prison for scheming to defraud the family of singer Elvis Presley of millions of...
Morning coffee and mourning
HOW WOULD YOU like coffee with a reminder of death?
It sounds macabre at first, but at Myth Café in Makati, death is business as...