A multimillion-dollar trove of seized Impressionist art believed to have been owned by the regime of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos has sat for five years in a climate-controlled Brooklyn warehouse, the subject of a bitter legal fight.
Of many Marikina landmarks, probably none more fully represents the place and its people than the Shoe Museum.
Following are excerpts from the profile of the same title, written from interviews in 1988 and 1996, by Thelma Sioson San Juan published in her book, “I’m Afraid of Heights (Or Why I Can’t Social-Climb)” by Inquirer Books, 2012
Millennials who have no memory of martial law and the late Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. now have a book that might well be written with them in mind.
Ageless, surgeried, or heavily photoshopped?
Auggie Cordero can laugh about it now, but he still remembers the numbing, disquieting feeling when the realization finally dawned 29 years ago: No one was going to knock on his door anymore. Not today, never mind tomorrow.
For Imelda Marcos, first lady at that time, it was just a routine fitting session. But before the afternoon could be over, her two collaborators got a sense of how much she still relished being in power.
As we begin the countdown to this year's State of the Nation Address, the Lifestyle staff looks back on the red carpet looks from 2010 to 2014.
It’s between Imelda Marcos and the Sandiganbayan. Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. said his office would not block the seizure of nine valuable paintings reportedly displayed in the office of the Ilocos Norte lawmaker and former first lady in the House of Representatives.
“Beautiful! Beautiful!” Imelda Marcos exclaimed, upon the unveiling of the silkscreen portrait of her, done by acclaimed artist-photographer Rupert Jacinto. Held at a champagne reception at the seventh-floor Lounge of the Salcedo Park in Salcedo Village, the new work introduces the silkscreen segment in the “Faaabvlous V” coffee-table book and photo exhibit at the Peninsula Manila in November.
