“Paris is a cliché,” said a friend as we walked leisurely after dinner one winter night, not realizing until we sat at a café to rest our feet that we had been walking for over three hours, and we had covered over four kilometers of Paris.
On view at De La Salle University (DLSU) Museum is “Art and Space: A Collection of Design Concepts by Wili Fernandez,” which runs till Aug. 16.
Remember Escolta? It is the street running parallel to the Pasig River that once was Manila’s premier commercial location.
Santa Ana district in Manila at first glance does not appear to be distinct from the rest, but a closer look reveals its wealth of heritage and tradition.
Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault of France and Vice President Jejomar Binay of the Philippines inaugurated the exhibit “Philippines: Archipel des Échanges (Philippines: Archipelago of Exchange)” last April 8 at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris.
CASA GRANDE (Big House) is what it’s called by the Claparols family, fourth-generation descendants of Don Aniceto Lacson and owners of the magnificent heritage home.
To get there you have go off the main road and drive along one of those typical narrow, winding Antipolo roads, until (after paying a P20 fee to enter the subdivision) you get to the door which is unmistakable as it is simple.
We imagine Kathmandu as a city nestled in clean, verdant green valley, whose temple-framed vistas take the eye all the way to the snow-capped Himalayas beyond, once the Shangri-La of hippiedom.
Work brought me to Kathmandu in the dead of winter this year.
Bamboo. It’s been around us all our lives. It’s something we have so much of that we don’t even think about it anymore.
At long last the Philippines will have a Museum of Natural History.
