10 years of Art in the Park

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman Art Fair Art in the Park April 3, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Jaime Velasquez Park, Salcedo Village, Makati City IMAGINED as a...

Millennials’ ‘lunch-break cosmetics’ spur China’s Botox boom

FRETTING ABOUT FROWN lines and crow’s feet can start early. In China, women in their 20s and 30s are spending on therapies to smooth...

Meet Art in the Park’s 10

THESE artists have, through the years, contributed images of artworks to be used for Art in the Park’s postcard invitations. This year AIP is...

Banana Republic taps Kevin Love for 2016

KEVIN LOVE, who plays center for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), is clothing brand Banana Republic’s new brand ambassador. “Banana Republic...

Food photography pioneer reveals how we eat (and it’s not always pretty)

By Richard Vines Book Real Food By Martin Parr, with an introduction by Fergus Henderson Phaidon EVERYONE is a food photographer these days. So where does that leave Martin Parr, who has...

Star Wars’ filming tempts Dark Side of tourism in Dubrovnik

WITH DUBROVNIK’S medieval promenade choked with floodlights, camera booms and a downed spaceship parked against a stone pillar, Desiree and Roger Hamilton had to...

On climate change and air conditioners

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman AS TEMPERATURES rise and the city begins to feel like one of Dante’s nine circles of hell, air conditioner...

Gotta dance!

Theater Stepping Out Presented by Repertory Philippines April 1 to 24 OnStage, GreenBelt 1, Ayala Center, Makati City REPERTORY PHILIPPINES presents the final play of its 79th season, a...

Now out on DVD

By Angela Dawson SISTERS Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have been bringing their goofy brand of girl-power humor to audiences since their days at Saturday Night Live...

BPI online film goes viral

Ads & Ends — Nanette Franco-Diyco This bank’s digital material is able to so effectively communicate with its target market without resorting to the conventional...

Road trip to Davao Oriental

Text and photos by Marifi S. Jara, Mindanao Bureau Chief WHEN I WENT to Mati City, the capital of Davao Oriental province, for the first...

Hope for depression

IT IS ESTIMATED that for every 90 depressives, only one-third are expected to seek help, one-third will suffer silently, while the other one-third will...