Two years ago, on a late afternoon, tour operator and performance artist Carlos Celdran was arrested for reportedly interrupting Mass in Manila Cathedral to stage a protest against priests and bishops interfering with the passage of the Reproductive Health Bill.
Like Hemingway’s Paris, Malate was a movable feast. When the good times were gone and it was time to move...
MANILA, Philippines—It is safe to say that Judy Ann Santos’ restaurant Angrydobo is a hit as dishes sold out...
Melvin Viceral remembers it well. Five years ago, there was less than a handful of places in Poblacion—Makati’s old town center—that one could go to for a good night-out with friends: Handlebar, Heckle & Jeckle (H&J) and El Chupacabra.
Is there nothing more to do in Manila at night except to endure the sight of rows upon rows of KTV bars and their GROs standing by the road like scalpers offering a naughty game of peekaboo?
IN MANILA, the years 1983 to ’86 saw massive street rallies in the aftermath of the Ninoy Aquino assassination. At night, the bars in Ermita and Malate provided respite to those days of disquiet.
HERITAGE advocates have raised concern over the prewar Art Deco Angela Apartments on MH del Pilar in Manila’s Malate district,...
Almost three months after he announced to return to the Philippines, best-selling author and chef Anthony Bourdain was spotted in...
It is well past 10 p.m. when guitarist Noli Aurillo finally takes the stage. ...
One man’s dirt is another man’s patina. Quite often, what we have come to define as the “character”...
