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Poblacion is our favorite corner of Makati. What’snot to love? Bright neon lights, expats and backpackers walking around, midget boxing, and cheap beer—a rarity in bars around Makati business district
Poblacion is our favorite corner of Makati. What’snot to love? Bright neon lights, expats and backpackers walking around, midget boxing, and cheap beer—a rarity in bars around Makati business district
Caught in the bottleneck that is Edsa in heavy rains during the evening rush hour? Don’t have a cardiac; make a detour instead to the nearest bar for a drink or two to allow traffic to thin out before hitting the road again.
AT 3 A.M. your choices on where to go for a bite and a few drinks are limited.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. On Sunday, March 23, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Art in the Park celebrates its eighth year. Manila’s most awaited affordable art fair expands and takes over the entire space of Jaime Velasquez Park in Salcedo Village, Makati City. Tents full of paintings, prints, photographs and sculpture will lie spread out over the park’s grassy portion. The branches of sprawling Acacia trees in the park’s other side, its asphalted section, will throw shade on even more participants as 58 galleries, art schools, independent art groups, and collectives take part in this year’s fair.
There was a time in the 1980s when going on a night-out could mean having cheap but ice-cold beer with friends in a hole-in-the-wall joint called Tib’s on Makati Avenue. Its nondescript ambiance would morph into the essence of cool when the likes of Miguel Faustmann and his cohorts at Repertory Philippines would drop in and chug their Pale Pilsens by the roadside, music blaring from the stage actor’s Volkswagen Brazilia.
I am so sorry, Malu Gamboa, but I have to break my promise and spill the chili beans on El Chupacabra!
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