Young artists from four Southeast Asian countries take ordinary objects for an extraordinary artistic exploration in the exhibition “Objection,” until Oct. 14 at 98B Collaboratory’s Pan Project Space in Escolta, Manila.
Dr. Jose Rizal is not alone as a potential casualty of Manila’s changing cityscape.
The food festival was billed a repeat performance of Myrna Segismundo at The Peninsula Manila. One year has passed, and now she was going to have her cooking again at The Pen’s Escolta which offers a daily buffet, and at the Lobby.
Remember Escolta? It is the street running parallel to the Pasig River that once was Manila’s premier commercial location.
Maureen Manuel of TheManilaVisionary.blogspot.com, former campus street style guru of CollegeFashionista.com, took a trip down memory lane and went around the streets of Escolta, Manila, to see if it is still fashionable as it was in its heydays.
It’s been a busy couple of weeks. My inbox overflowed with announcements and invitations to varied events, from birthdays to prenuptial parties and weddings; seminars on how to keep young; lectures about aging gracefully. Most of them, I’m happy to say, were truly interested in my personal attendance. The others, well, they just wanted to sell me something.
In this country it’s a crime to be poor,” Dad would say, and proceed to challenge anyone to find him one inmate who was not. “So, kiddo,” he would tell me, “you just have to avoid being poor— like a plague.”
I do not remember the Jai Alai. I have never marveled at the flame trees that once lined the paseo to Luneta. Not once have I walked through Escolta in all its glory, when it exuded glamour comparable to stylish European boulevards.
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