January 28, 2012 | Lifestyle.INQ

adobo Design Awards: Challenge for best in design is on

Adobo magazine, the country’s premier advertising and brand communications publication, is calling all creative professionals and students as the adobo Design Awards returns to challenge the Philippines’ best creatives. Originally launched in 2007, the adobo Design Awards aims to champion the best designs and recognize the people behind them. Open to all creative enthusiasts, professionals, freelancers and students, the competition promises to up the ante and bring out the best of the best.

January 28, 2012

TIP marks 50th year with book on teachers

A book paying homage to the teaching profession was recently launched by the Technological Institute of the Philippines (TIP) to commemorate its 50th founding anniversary.

January 28, 2012

Ivan who?

I thought to myself, it would be nice to go up there.” It’s two days after Katy Perry’s concert and we’re at the Star Magic office, sitting on a couch inside the Artists’ Lounge. On the other end of the couch is Ivan Dorschner. The guy Katy Perry kissed. The guy who kissed Katy Perry.

January 28, 2012

Close encounters with Katy Perry

How far would you go to meet Katy Perry? Would you join a contest? Buy bottles of perfume? Wait for hours? For these two big fans, meeting their favorite pop star became a dream come true.

January 28, 2012

10 Super moments from Katy Perry’s concert

Katy Perry was worth the wait. As her concert kicked off its explosion of sparkle and sugary goodness, we soon forgot that she made us fidget for two hours.

January 28, 2012

The return of Zsazsa Zaturnnah

Hold on to your magical stones, Zsazsa Zaturnnah’s back and she’s turning 10. It’s amazing when you think about it, but this year marks a decade since comics creator Carlo Vergara introduced his superstar creation, Zsazsa Zaturnnah in the two-issue series “Ang Kagila-gilalas na Pakikipagsapalaran ni Zsazsa Zaturnnah in 2002, later collected in a trade paperback by Visual Print Enterprises.

January 28, 2012

Going deep with Dwayne Johnson

The moment Dwayne Johnson stepped onto the platform, it was evident to all that he was a genuine ham and an entertainer at heart, pulling all the stops to make his audience laugh, whether flashing his wide, white smile, making his chest pop and dance or whipping out a ukulele to strum and sing—in Taiwanese, to boot.

January 28, 2012

Batad: Saving a crumbling heritage

More than 2,000 years ago, ancestors of the Ifugao, using only primitive tools and their ingenuity, carved their mountains into what is now known as the Rice Terraces of the Cordilleras. Located 5,000 m above sea level and some 300 km from Metro Manila, the rice terraces are considered an architectural wonder unmatched anywhere in the world. Recognized by Unesco World Heritage Center as a World Heritage Site in 1995, they cover over 10,000 sq km of mountainside, and are a testament to the Ifugao spirit and their cultural heritage.

January 28, 2012

Lahore Fort–fabled place of Mughal tales and riddles

Stories are told and retold. They can enmesh a place in a net so fine that it becomes difficult to distinguish between what had transpired and what was conjured.

January 28, 2012

KC Concepcion goes risque and other Super scene-stealers this week

KC Concepcion’s derriere. Posing sexy for a magazine—that apparently is what a break-up could do to a heartbroken woman. Just look at the Megadaughter, who in the cover of the latest issue of Rogue magazine, shows off her impressively shaped behind while clutching a head (which people assume represents her ex-boyfriend) and her pet snake (which people think represents the third party). Piolo Pascual sure is to blame for this daring move, which is making a lot of guys happy.

January 28, 2012