BGC Art Center’s You are Not Alone: Art Workshops presents the Weave-It-Yourself: Inabel Workshop with artist Judith Basco on May 29 (2 to 5 p.m.) via Zoom.

IT is vital to know about something to love it — and if we’re going to begin to fall in love with Mindanao, and therefore take care of it, we should know about one of its elements: its food.

We make up names and labels for the things that we find important. In the case of the Kapampangans, they have named their culture and have tied their identity to the riverbanks (pampang in Filipino), and therefore, to the river.

GROWING up, I’d spend a lot of time during the summer at my grandmother’s karinderya in San Fernando, La Union.

THE DOREEN Gamboa Fernandez Food Writing Award (DGF Award) has announced the winners of the 2020 competition. The subject matter was “Livestock,” which, in the Philippines refers to cattle, pigs, goats, carabaos, and horses.

PASTRY chef-mom Lovely Jiao, the innovator behind Sugarplum Pastries’ head-turning eight-foot dessert towers, lighted anti-gravity cakes and twirly whirly rotating toppers, introduces a series of flamboyant sweets in time for Mother’s Day.

EATING a favorite childhood dish, revisiting a pastime in the summer, cleaning out a closet, reliving travel experiences, and confronting socio-political issues are a few activities that have preoccupied eight women artists from Negros over the past year. These stories found their way into works which will go on exhibit in “Istorya Namon Subong (Our Stories Now)” at Salcedo Auctions’ Private View.

THIS week, the Philippines is marking a significant event in the history of European colonialism in the Asia-Pacific region — the 500th anniversary of the death of Portuguese explorer Fernão de Magalhães (more commonly known as Ferdinand Magellan).

NEW YORK — The Kanye West sneakers that sent athletic shoes strutting down fashion runways sold for $1.8 million, a new world record price for a pair of sneakers, Sotheby’s announced on Monday.

LUXURY fashion company Richemont on Sunday confirmed the death of designer Alber Elbaz, saying the former creative director at French fashion house Lanvin had died from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

STOCKHOLM —  Spotify on Monday said it has partnered with Facebook to allow listeners to play music and podcasts directly from the social network’s iOS and Android apps.

LOS ANGELES — US television ratings for Sunday’s reinvented Oscars ceremony plummeted to a new low, according to preliminary Nielsen data for a show that USA Today called “a train wreck” and the New York Times described as “a dead room.”