Japan picks ‘Wagyu Olympics’ winner…

SENDAI, JAPAN – More than 500 cattle paraded through a ring in northern Japan in the “Wagyu Olympics” to win prizes and renown as...

Happiness in a cup

By Susan Claire Agbayani MOZART and Bach can be heard throughout Real Fresh Dairy Farm, where around 200 head of Holstein-Sahiwal cattle are exposed to...

The best gin joint in the world

Sherwin A. Lao
IF YOU are like me, one of those newcomer gin lovers, then the six-month-old Atlas Bar in not so far away Singapore is a...

Ceramics exhibit a snapshot of China-Philippine maritime trade

BEFORE the Spanish arrived and the galleons sailed back and forth across the Pacific, China had long been bartering goods with the Philippines: food...

Making fun at and of the CCP

THEY REFUSE to share their real identities as artists, so we will call them Peter and Pilar, but collectively, they are called koloWn. The...

Book Buffet: almost 200 exhibitors at the MIBF

THE OPENING this week of the country’s biggest book fair comes with the announcement of the nominees for the annual National Book Award. From Sept....

Lecture looks at the effect of disease on military occupation

THE Lopez Museum and Library will hold the second lecture of its Off the Pages Lecture Series. The lecture, “Inhabit,” which discusses the impact...

29Rooms, the exhibition created for social media

NEW YORK – Visitors were touching the art, wearing it and even jumping on it at the popular immersive exhibition 29Rooms held in a...

Tropical apocrypha: 100 years of NJ

By Juan EY Arcellana HAVING BEEN invited to speak by one of the Graphic editors at the Nick Joaquin literary awards on the birth centennial...

Cine Europa shows 24 films on its 20th year

CONSIDERED ONE of the longest film festivals in the country, Cine Europa – which celebrates the best European cinema has to offer – is...

Del Toro’s The Shape of Water wins Venice Golden Lion

VENICE – The Shape of Water, a dazzling sci-fi romance by Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice...

The winners of the 74th Venice Film Festival

VENICE – Here is a list of the prizes awarded at the 74th Venice film festival on Saturday: • Golden Lion for Best Film: The...