Beat the summer heat
OFFSET the extreme heat baking the city this summer with Makati Diamond Residences’ refreshing specialty ice cream. There is the bestselling Supermoist Chocolate and...
Enjoy afternoon tea and raise funds to help cancer patients
THROUGHOUT the month of October, a number of companies are holding special events and promos to improve awareness of breast cancer, and in many cases to raise money for research, awareness, and treatment centers.
It takes a day and a half to make this roast goose
FOR EVERY bite of chef Billy Cheong’s roasted goose, you’re tasting about a century’s worth of history and the labor of a day and a half.
Your Weekend Guide (April 5, 2019)
THE Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) will hold the 3rd Performatura festival on April 5 to 7 with activities including poetry readings, literature classes, chanters from the regions, and slam poetry contest. For the complete festival schedule, visit performatura.wordpress.com.
‘You can still sense the love’: Baby boomers revel at Woodstock 50 years on
BETHEL, N.Y. — Baby boomers dressed in tie-dye, rolling wheelchairs and chasing a memory of peace and love flocked to Bethel, New York, for the weekend to mark the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, the music festival that defined 1960s counterculture.
Victoria Beckham knew fashion industry would dismiss her as a wannabe
PARIS -- Former pop-star Victoria Beckham knew she’d have to win over hard-to-impress fashion critics when she launched her first clothing line a decade ago, but the one-time Spice Girl said the industry was much harder to crack than she had ever imagined.
I heard you make movies
By Noel Vera
IN The Irishman (2019) someone puts a question to Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), the same question that is title of Charles Brandt’s 2004 book (I Heard You Paint Houses) — the same question one might ask of Martin Scorsese with the same innocuousness, and just the hint of something more.
Imelda docu premieres at CCP
EMMY Award–winning filmmaker/photographer Lauren Greenfield’s critically acclaimed documentary about Imelda Marcos, The Kingmaker, will have its Philippine premiere on Jan. 29, 7:30 p.m., at the Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), with matinee screening at 3 p.m.
Kominers’s Conundrums: The Corner-Cutting Chessboard
LAST WEEK, we solved a puzzle of light switches — all it took was a short trip to a different part of our brains.* This week, we’ll be interrogating another common household object: the chessboard.
Style (08/24/20)
SM’s buy one, take one deals
FOR THE last week of August, SM offers buy one, take one deals to tide people over during the...
Masters and maps
MASTERS and maps are all the rage this season for Leon Gallery’s Magnificent September Auction, happening live at 2 p.m. on Sept. 19 at the gallery’s salesrooms in Legazpi Village.
Julius Baer launches Next Generation Art Prize
THE SWISS private banking group Julius Baer has launched the inaugural Next Generation Art Prize for young Southeast Asian artists which focuses solely on digital art.