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The Philippine pavilion stand at the Frankfurt Book Fair featuring custom wooden shelving units filled with books under warm spotlights

Frankfurter Buchmesse 2024: Books strike like printed lightning as ‘imagination peoples the air’

Great literature is about this very metamorphosis, about the wings that we all have, even if we no longer know we have them.

By Igan D'Bayan · November 10, 2024
Chef BoonHoe Bun standing with arms crossed in his chef uniform and tall white hat in front of a blue and white porcelain patterned background

The dim sum pairing is a lob fest at Summer Palace

At Edsa Shangri-La’s Summer Palace, resident master chef Andy Liew turns dim sum into a study in patience, tradition and the art of the perfect pairing.

By Igan D'Bayan · October 24, 2024
Chef Josh Boutwood with a curled mustache stands in Ember’s kitchen between grills of resting meats

Chef Josh Boutwood’s vision for Ember’s fiery fare

Chef Josh Boutwood on the mushroom dish he tried to kill, the salmon heads he loves, and why perfection would be the saddest day of his career.

By Igan D'Bayan · October 17, 2024
Ronald Ventura’s ‘State of Bloom’: a woman in a pink gown amid palms, butterflies, engines and an astronaut under a teal sky

In bloom: Filipino artist Ronald Ventura sets new record at Christie’s

The artist continues not just to break records at auction houses but also records how society blooms away from what it is originally.

By Igan D'Bayan · October 16, 2024
Collage of artist Mia Herbosa and her paintings including Wild Thing, Russian Beauty, 21, and Yellow Roses

Mia Herbosa: Still lifes, dead birds, figures in repose, a world learning to breathe again

Three dead mayas on a studio floor in 2021 turned Mia Herbosa toward abstraction. Her new show is a visual diary of the years since.

By Igan D'Bayan · October 10, 2024
Sopranos Anna Migallos and Myramae Meneses with bass baritone Roby Malubay posing together at the launch of Progetto Puccini

Bringing out the opera in us

Four days of masterclasses at the Metropolitan Theater: Progetto Puccini argues that opera was never foreign to a country that sings mid-sentence.

By Igan D'Bayan · September 23, 2024
Weihenstephan beer bottles chilling in an ice-filled wooden tub, ringed by empty branded wheat-beer glasses

Bigger, better and Bavarian to the core

Oktoberfest returns to Newport World Resorts this October, with Weihenstephan brews, Bavarian feasts and Austria’s AnTon Showband.

By Igan D'Bayan · September 12, 2024
A collage of five rescued dogs in Bistro Group bandanas and shirts: a black-and-white dog, a yellow dog, and white-and-tan strays with their tongues out

Bistro Group named its rescued strays after restaurants

What started with a stray refusing to move from under Paul’s car became Bistro Fur Friends, and a headquarters that is home to fifteen dogs.

By Igan D'Bayan · September 5, 2024
Junyee gazing at his red root-like sculpture of a head on a wooden table by lattice windows

Junyee through time & space

From painting the faces of the dead in a Cebu funeral home to the Gawad CCP Para sa Sining: the long calvary of the father of Philippine installation art.

By Igan D'Bayan · August 26, 2024
A smiling man in cream stands among marble tables, yellow chairs and patterned tile at Siklab+

For a boldly Filipino food experience, seek and you shall Siklab+

Two years and eight corporate chefs to get the crispy pata right: inside the Bistro Group’s first Filipino restaurant, at Shangri-La Plaza.

By Igan D'Bayan · August 15, 2024
Kaye Tinga, president of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, standing in a black top against a textured wall with a minimalist abstract painting

Kaye Tinga: ‘The CCP is more than just a building; it is a brand, a living entity.’

‘The CCP is really more than just a building; it is a living entity that encompasses everything about art and culture in our country.’

By Igan D'Bayan · August 12, 2024
The blue dial Patek Philippe Ref. 5330G-001 World Time watch with denim-patterned calfskin strap, displaying time zones and dates

Patek Philippe: How tech intersects with aesthetics

A World Time watch whose date follows you across zones, and a Greenbelt boutique: Deepa Chatrath on making things useful and beautiful.

By Igan D'Bayan · July 28, 2024