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The Barenaked Ladies, my favorite Canadian rock/folk band, called Vanilla just that in their breakout single “One Week” from the 1998 album “Stunt.” I sang through it and nodded with everything in agreement. The song played not…
There are 42 minutes and 10 seconds of Hirofumi Imamura’s voice on my recorder, which is surprising, even as we have been bracing for a temperamental artist who may or may not even speak to us. “I’ve…
COCINA DE LA CASA #8 Morales Street, (behind Harold’s Hotel) +63 32 4010750 Stephen Aznar’s now defunct Café Elysa in Parian was my go-to downtown eats destination. The stories he weaves with his food always fascinated me,…
Veteran makeup artist Vanessa Gamus, a favorite for destination weddings, lays down some basic steps (and a few juicy insider tips and products!) to recreate her signature flawless looks for the holidays. No need to fret if…
NOTE: In the aftermath of a well-meaning travel advisory against the South of Cebu, I’m publishing this belated Halloween-themed, impromptu trip to just that area in question. I acknowledge that the threat is always present, always real,…
WHEN I first started supporting Pink October, the consolidated Breast Cancer Awareness celebration in Cebu more than a decade ago, I appeared in photographs with cancer survivors. At this early stage of the movement, the subjects were…
(Photographed with a Fujifilm XT 10 and a Fujinon XF 16mm lens) THE night market pulsates with a nocturnal energy that is neither frenzied nor frenetic. In fact, it seems the Taiwanese have their game plan all…
Why this vegetarian restaurant is worth the 5 flight of stairs to get to it (Photographed with the Fujifilm XT10 using the Fujinon 16mm prime lens) It is obviously a tongue-in-cheek reference to herself when Chip Lopez…
NO one has seen me in more incarnations than Lance Gokongwei. In the late 90s, I first met him in the boardrooms of JG Summit, the umbrella company of the Gokongwei group. I was always dressed in…
“OH nononono, these were made by the chef while waiting,” our server cheerily told us. We had suffered through horrible traffic from road closures in the city, and to make matters worse, the wind had descended determinedly…
FOR THOSE who have just been initiated into the phenomenon that is the Sinulog, the entire celebration is marked by Traslacion Friday (when the Holy Family is completed in a ritual that removed the real Patron Saint…
WHEN I was 6, my milkshake brought all the boys to the yard. That, a game of jolen (marbles), contraband kakâ (spiders) fights and time on the monkey bars brought us all out into the sun. One…
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