It is December in Manila, and I am overwhelmed by the excesses of the holidays. I have attended too many parties. The streets are choked with traffic. Stores are drowning with cheap Chinese Christmas bric-a-brac.
When people mention Pampanga, you often think of food, particularly dainty sweets and saucy, oily dishes most Filipinos love. Or you think of those giant multicolor Christmas lanterns.
This Christmas is all about family and blessings. With my brother Andrew Prieto and his family back home from the States after more than two decades, the holidays are extra special because our entire clan is complete.
To take a train across Switzerland—with a backpack—wasn’t exactly on our bucket list, yet that was exactly what we did last July.
When I was nine, a classmate gave me a box of colored bricks of different shapes and sizes. Following the instructions, I slowly put one piece onto the next until I built the image of a spaceship. It even had a small blue figure of a man with a yellow face—the astronaut.
For Johann Manas, designing is something straightforward and subtle, yet full of impact. This perhaps best describes his no-nonsense collection for Human.
Just in time for Christmas, SSI Group Inc., a top specialty retailer in the Philippines, brings the iconic toy brand Hamleys to the Philippines.
Something is happening in local theater. No, we don’t mean that all the previous years had been a long period of ennui and inactivity. Far from it.
Is it mere coincidence that “Chicago,” the Tony Award-winning musical centered on celebrity criminals, should end its 23-performance run in Manila on the same week that the country is rattled by the mind-blowing exposé that high-profile crooks in the New Bilibid Prison are living in sickening luxury?
We make it easy for you to shop for stylish loved ones with this last-minute shopping guide, with suggestions for each individual on your Christmas list.
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