Ghost hunting in Intramuros

While the walled city of Intramuros was founded in 1571, when Miguel Lopez de Legazpi declared Manila as the capital of the brand-new colony,...

Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino goes online

At the start of the pandemic, cinemas were shut down and large group gatherings were banned, bringing the film industry to a screeching halt,...

Stuff to do (10/23/20)

Biobalance Webinar On Oct. 24, 9 a.m., the Biobalance Wellness Institute will hold a webinar called “Trust Your Gut: What Symptoms Reveal About Your Health.”...

Ricky Lee’s scriptwriting manual turned into TV show

Award-winning screenwriter and playwright Ricardo “Ricky” Lee is sharing his tips on how to write and tell stories on iWant’s Trip to Quiapo, a...

BRIEFS

Rebecca proves to be the novel that keeps on giving LOS ANGELES — Daphne du Maurier’s beloved novel Rebecca has seen multiple screen adaptations but...

‘In stories, we will find solutions,’ says advertising exec

By Mariel Alison L. Aguinaldo Industries can draw solutions from people’s stories during this pandemic, according to leaders in the advertising industry. “In stories, we will...

Eating like the English?

PARIS — Restaurateur Pascal Mousset has a new menu he hopes will persuade his patrons to change the habit of a lifetime in response to Paris’s coronavirus curfew, by — perish the thought — eating dinner as early as the English.

Creative twists get cooks into Top 5 of culinary tilt

TRADITIONAL Filipino dishes made with Irish pork and beef — and given a twist — propelled their creators to the Top 5 of the East Meets West culinary competition run by the Irish Government Food Board (Bord Bia).

Impossible Foods launches in Asian grocery stores as it aims to move into China

HONG KONG - Impossible Foods’ faux beef burgers will be sold in grocery stores in Hong Kong and Singapore, the company said as it vies to bolster its presence in Asia and before entering the potentially lucrative mainland China market.

Hungarian restaurant reinvents the wheel for social distancing

BUDAPEST — Hit by a plunge in turnover after foreign tourists vanished, Michelin-starred Hungarian restaurant Costes has staged a skyline dining event on the Budapest Eye ferris wheel to generate sales in a coronavirus-proof environment.

Royal Canin launches pet care app

Our pets have kept us company throughout this pandemic, and just because they are under the various levels of lockdown like their humans, that does not mean that their health has to suffer.

Time for World’s End?

By Sherwin A. Lao
WHEN the World Health Organization (WHO) first announced last March that the COVID-19 outbreak was already a pandemic, the world went into absolute shock. That was over eight months ago. Back then, COVID-19 was an unknown virus that was considered quite lethal, and was even being compared to one of the deadliest pandemics of all time, the Spanish Flu from 1918 that killed an estimated 20 million people worldwide.