IN my long and continuing experience with wine drinkers both locally and regionally, either as a winery representative, a wine lecturer, a wine bar owner, or a wine importer, I have come to realize that wine drinkers can actually be classified into eight types.

LOS ANGELES — The Crown and The Mandalorian led nominations on Tuesday for the Emmy Awards in a diverse field packed with newcomers and feel-good TV shows that reflected the surge in streaming during the coronavirus pandemic.

BEHIND every sweet bite of chocolate is a lot of sweat, blood, and tears: at least, this is what we gleaned from a talk by Collabox on July 7 (World Chocolate Day) with stakeholders in the Philippine chocolate industry called “Elevate Philippine Chocolate.”

AS MANILA slowly drifts towards the rainy season, one can’t be faulted for looking forward to cozy, peaceful moments indoors. And there’s probably no better way to enjoy the Manila thunderstorms than with The Peninsula Manila’s “Happy Rainy Days at The Pen” room package.

SPECIALIZING in Spanish dishes, Las Flores in Salcedo Village, Makati City, recently launched a new lunch menu plus crowd favorite tapas and paella bundled with sangria.

Amidst the plethora of diets that claim to trim down weight and boost health, another contender has arisen — the bone broth lifestyle plan, pioneered in the Philippines by Kimberly E. King, a licensed “fasting coach” and gut health specialist who is also a culinary entrepreneur.  

DURING the lockdown last year, actor/director Nelsito Gomez was looking for stories about communication and connection; a story that, he said, is “an encouraging response to our reality of being forced to distance ourselves physically from our loved ones.”

A LITTLE more than a month after launching a book on her life in the theater, actress, singer, and painter Celia Diaz Laurel passed away on July 12, 8:30 p.m. She was 93 years old.

FURNITURE from the collection of Ken and Isa Mishuku, the couple behind the midcenturymanila Instagram page, are the focus of Leon Exchange’s online auction, Midcentury Manila, on July 18.

ZENEIDA “Nini” Quezon Avanceña, the sole surviving child of the second President of the Philippines and the first President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines died on July 12, 2021 — a full month after Independence Day celebrations on June 12. She turned 100 years old on April 9, mere months before her death.

SEOUL — Plenty of gym-goers rely on a good tune to get themselves through that workout, but in South Korea their musical options have just reduced significantly under new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) rules.

THE METROPOLITAN Museum of Manila presents the second series of Art Inspires titled “Heritage, Identity, and Nationhood” on July 17 (10-11 a.m.) via Zoom.