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Four festive dishes in a grid: beef Wellington, sliced turkey, glazed salmon and a dark pudding

Have yourself a very Ramsay Christmas

Gordon Ramsay Bar & Grill’s first Philippine Christmas: Beef Wellington Rossini, a Jingle Bell Sour, and a gingerbread house built like a Gehry.

By Igan D'Bayan · December 5, 2024
Bronze statue of José Rizal in an overcoat, chin resting on his hand, with bright chrysanthemums at its base and a Philippine flag over the misty hills behind

Feeling Rizal hover ‘In the Air’ tonight in Heidelberg

Rizal on bread, cheese and forever potatoes: retracing his Heidelberg addresses with Ambeth Ocampo, from the eye clinic to the river.

By Igan D'Bayan · December 2, 2024
Crowds fill the Philippines stand at the Frankfurter Buchmesse, a kite-framed timber canopy and book-lined shelves under a Philippines banner in the exhibition hall

Literature both spectral & realistic: PH gears up for primetime in 2025 Frankfurt book fair

The Philippines takes the Guest of Honour scroll from Italy for 2025: Patrick Flores and Stanley Ruiz on the pavilion, and a line from Sisa’s chapter.

By Igan D'Bayan · November 24, 2024
Three models mid-stride in a white studio wearing Uniqlo x Anya Hindmarch knitwear: an olive cardigan over a white tee with wide camel trousers, a navy crew-neck sweater with small embroidered eyes and loose jeans, and a bright pink sweater with wide jeans

If winter comes, can Uniqlo be far behind?

Anya Hindmarch’s darning stitches and embroidered eyes meet Uniqlo’s LifeWear staples, just in time for somewhere nippy.

By Avee Navarro Tan · November 21, 2024
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