The Manila Hotel has important memories for the generations that grew up with Presidents Ferdinand Marcos, Cory Aquino and Fidel...
Inspired by Cirque du Soleil’s “Varekai” show—the awesome touring circus by performers acclaimed worldwide—has inspired the Manila Hotel to whip...
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Miss World Philippines 2011 will hold its Charity Gala Night on Sept. 13 at the Manila Hotel for the benefit...
Preparing for the first International Global Peace Interfaith Conference at the Manila Hotel on April 18, 19 and 20, 2013, is a tall order for the organizers, headed by Basil Archbishop Deogracias Flores of the Eglise Orthodoxie d’Europe and the Catholic Clergy, such as Fr. Alex Benedicto, SJ; Fr. Luke Moortgat, CICM; and Fr. Efren de Guzman, SVD.
Jazz gigs—and we mean the exceptionally good ones—may be found in the most unlikely places around town. For a long time, the Manila Hotel had been getting bad press because its new owners seemed to have thrown its once glorious history out the window with the way it ran the place. And the prospect of watching live music, a jazz performance, for that matter, in the hotel was totally unheard of—until last year when management launched Jazz at the Tap Room featuring some of the country’s best musicians and singers performing nightly.
For the past several years, some hotels in the city have been featuring music acts that don’t belong to the typical “variety pop” mold.
The Red Cross Manila Chapter held a successful dinner-dance at the Manila hotel recently, which was a kick-off event for the planning of the Valentine Ball.
If you’re offered a Cory Aquino painting, beware. Two years ago, a painting in watercolor, supposedly by the late former President, was offered to Heritage Art Gallery.
The news reached us sometime in September via Inquirer food columnist and moonlighting singer Margaux Salcedo, who said that her monthly stint, as well as those of other jazz acts at the Tap Room of Manila Hotel, was no longer being renewed.
