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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.
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.
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.’
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.
Farm to table, heart to heart
After a volcano, a pandemic and a lost lease, chefs Jay Jay and Rhea SyCip’s Fatted Calf finds its footing in Tagaytay, one farm-to-table plate at a time.
Mojo risin’: A tale of set meals and endless mojitos
Bottomless mojitos, set meals and a little existential drift: an afternoon at TGI Fridays One Ayala, where P345 buys as many mojitos as the heat demands.
Chef Josh Boutwood’s appetite for evolution
The chef behind Manila’s most restless kitchens on why he never designs a menu until he is standing in the room, and the chapter he is closing now.
Philippine Pavilion’s ‘Structures of Mutual Support’: From the Biennale to Bulacan
From an old armory in Venice to a barangay in Angat, the award-winning community library goes home to the people who helped build it.
Moving in Stereo: Why do audio fools fall in love?
Soundproofing is not acoustic treatment, the way Ryan Adams is not Bryan Adams. The never-ending build of a listening room, failing better.
The empire state of Maria Angelica Tan’s art
A Filipina in her early twenties, a Hudson Square gallery, and leftover adobo before the bus: Maria Angelica Tan distills New York into paint.
Mountain song: PHL Pavilion brings the aura of Banahaw to the Biennale
In the Philippine Pavilion, visitors walk among fabric, fake stones and sound, following the light. Mark Salvatus brings Banahaw to Venice.
Daily grind & morning rituals
Bo’s Coffee spins off Daily, a hand-poured brand born in the pandemic, from 10 cloud stores to 12 cafés built to look like bounce houses.