Stuff to do (12/24/21)

AS PARTS of Visayas and Mindanao suffer the aftermath of the strongest typhoon to hit the country this year, Lazada is encouraging Filipinos to help provide support and relief to communities affected by Typhoon Odette by donating to relief efforts through #LazadaForGood partner NGOs, including World Vision, Save the Children, UNICEF, and many more. For more details, visit https://lzd.co/LazadaForGood.

Entertainment News (12/24/21)

TWENTY-FIVE Filipino artists have come together for a special song called “Bayaning Tunay” which is dedicated to frontliners.

What’s on your bedside reading table? 

From autobiographies to mystery novels and classic bestsellers, founders and business professionals give BusinessWorld readers a glimpse of their current reading fare. 

A milky Christmas

POPULAR YouTube chef Ryan Morales Reyes (otherwise known as Ninong Ry, with 1.25 million subscribers) entertained guests at a webinar last week called Shume-chef with Nestlé Carnation. The canned milk brand used the opportunity to launch its new formulation of evaporated milk (called “Evap” on the label and in many households as such), with more milk and in a new easy-to-open box package.

Grinch hits candy cane makers with sugar shortage, twisted supply chain

CHICAGO — Orders have been pouring into Andrew Schuman’s candy cane business this year, but business has been anything but sweet.

Chimes from Crusader times: Recreating Nativity Church’s Medieval music

JERUSALEM — Crusader-era bells and organ pipes from the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem are inspiring researchers’ efforts to re-create music as it may have sounded in the birthplace of Jesus during almost 800 years ago.

‘Merry Christmas’  First SMS sells for over 100,000 euros in Paris auction

PARIS — The first text message ever sent, reading “Merry Christmas,” was sold on Tuesday for 107,000 euros ($121,000) as a Non-Fungible Token at a Paris auction house.

Dining In/Out (12/23/21)

DIAMOND Hotel Philippines helps guests be merry this holiday season with dining specials. Dishes from around the world are offered at Corniche with Christmas Eve and Christmas Day lunch and dinner buffets, made more special with a complimentary glass of wine.

Nation rebuilding depicted in art

The winning works in this year’s Shell National Students Art Competition included an image of unseen emotions under a face mask, frontliners, and a...

Gifts of Art

Whether it be decorative pieces, uniquely designed dinnerware, fashion items which are handwoven with indigenous prints or printed with artworks, or art history books,...

Spain returns smuggled figurines, funeral jars to Egypt

MADRID —  Spain returned 36 stolen antiquities to Egyptian officials on Monday, including figurines of gods and goddesses and ancient jars meant to hold...

Anilao Underwater Shootout stages a successful comeback

Amateur and professional underwater photographers, divers, and marine enthusiasts captured the beauty of Anilao, Batangas for the 7th Anilao Underwater Shootout (AUS), recently mounted...