RODEL Gonzalez remembers his dad getting very upset sometime in the 1970s over his decision to become a professional musician....
It’s not all about shopping or dressing in style. For Nicky Feliciano, a financial analyst at EMI Music, FNO – or Fashion’s Night Out – means hanging with friends and hitting the after-parties with the overflowing cocktails and celebrity sightings.
"For crown. For country", is the slogan of the Kagandahang Flores (Flores Beauty) studio he set up in 1996, the first of a handful of Philippine beauty boot camps that have helped transform the nation's pageant fortunes.
Opera fans and those who are curious to try out the art form will now be able to watch shows staged by New York City’s Metropolitan Opera (Met) without flying to the USA.
BACOLOD CITY—In the tradition of heritage youth forums started by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 1995 and in the Philippines last year by Project Saysay, the Filipinas Heritage Festival Inc. (FHFI) and National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) held here last week the first of a series of localized heritage conferences aimed at educating the younger generations about the importance of cultural heritage, particularly local patrimony.
Miss World 2014 Rolene Strauss is in the country to inaugurate a new ward at the Philippine General Hospital (PGH).
The Philippines -- where beauty contests are a serious affair -- celebrated on Sunday its first victory in the Miss World contest despite hardline Islamic protests against the event in the host country Indonesia.
THE DINING room was high-ceilinged, filled with natural light, and pretty and cozy even if in a somewhat generic manner. It was, all in all, an ideal spot for a weekday lunch with a woman I hadn’t caught up with in a long time.
Many of the successful chefs/restaurant owners we’ve met cut their culinary teeth at the kitchens of the defunct Mandarin Oriental Hotel Manila. Their reputations precede them. The coterie of the hotel’s foreign chefs must have trained them well.
Today is the day you become a man. Damn. Incredible. It seems like just a change of a nappy and a burp ago that you were born.
