The virtues of the coconut, the tree of life, were celebrated in Quezon province’s Niyogyugan Festival. Now on its fifth...
AUGUST 8 is the feast of St. Dominic de Guzman, the founder of the Order of Preachers (OP, or Dominicans), one of the major movements of religious reform of the Middle Ages and a most influential religious order in the Church today.
It wouldn’t come as a surprise if many of this year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) delegates, after participating in daily mind-numbing marathon meetings, would hardly remember anything by 2016—except for the welcome parties they attended.
The New City Garden Grand Hotel at the corner of Makati and Kalayaan Avenues in Makati City has 300 well-appointed rooms and suites, each designed with a seamless mixture of narra hardwood accents, marble, glass and onyx stone highlights.
The First Philippine Republic’s 116th anniversary in Malolos shows reliving history can be fun and exciting.
The atmosphere was that of a boozy fiesta, as though we had wandered by mistake into a wedding of someone we didn’t know, which had started about three hours earlier and was running out of food.
June is almost over, and I suddenly realize that May came and went and I never saw a Santacruzan.
A month after the bombing at Limketkai Center, the city gears up to celebrate the feast day of St. Augustine on Aug. 28.
I was poaching an egg for breakfast and remembered where it came from. A nice man on a wheelchair, who hails from Bacolod, handed me a tray of 30 Grade A eggs during Apolinario Mabini’s Birthday Parade—to keep the rain away.
It’s been a 12-year, long-running tradition—and this year, the residents of Barangay Bel-Air will restage this May their yearly ‘Pasinaya Festival’, a three-day activity whose goal is to promote bonding and a sense of community among the participants.
