BUNOLâTens of thousands of revellers splattered each other with 120 tons of squashed tomatoes Wednesday in a gigantic annual food...
Three top matadors slayed six half-tonne bulls Sunday in the last bullfight held in Catalonia before a ban on the centuries-old tradition comes into effect in the northeastern Spanish region.
We got a fairly good idea of the audience for classical music in Calbayog City in Western Samar with the opening of the First Samar International Music Festival on Oct. 29 with violinist Gina Medina and pianist Mary Anne Espina.
When I breezed into the Peninsula Hotel Manila, I knew instantly it was a Citibank affair. The world-renowned Citibank was hosting a thanksgiving dinner for its clients, hoping for continued partnership and stronger ties with them for another year.
Just as easily as they party, Filipinos find an excuse to danceâfor leisure or entertainment, as a manifestation of worship or as a social valve for relationships.
When I told my bellicose and history-conscious cousin, the architect Toti Mendoza, that I was going to Tacloban, capital city of Leyte, he proclaimed: âGood! Will send you excerpts of how MacArthurâs staff treated Sergio Osmeña.â
Lighted pyramids and cathedrals, glittering temples and pagodas, glowing lanterns and Disneyland charactersâthey came together to bathe this city in light and color as the Christmas season officially began here on Saturday night.
The feast of Santo Niño de Cebu was celebrated with the usual devotion and splendor. An estimated 2.7 million people joined the procession or watched along the sidelines of its route.
Sunny Cebu is brightest and wildest when it celebrates its annual Sinulog Festival. Through the streets of the city, fields of colorful, feathered masks and headdresses abound. Dominating as well the urbanscape were street dancers, dressed in glittering costumes and bearing painted shields, who flocked the parade routes.
The Malasimbo Music & Arts Festival this year is headlined by two music greats: reggae artist Jimmy Cliff and soul singer Joss Stone.
