Metro Society: 27 articles
Awakenings - AT a glance, it's hard to tell what all three have in common: a matinee idol, a cancer survivor, and a big boss at the country's biggest media »
Bohol and bounty - To travel through Bohol is to experience a new world. It means exploring areas teeming with rich biodiversity unlike any other in the country. The island »
Coming home - Sometimes the best part of traveling is coming home. After an eventful trip it was a genuine surprise to find out that some good friends had taken the »
Cream of the crop - Originally created to erase stretch marks and wrinkles, StriVectin-SD, manufactured by Klein-Becker, has been flying off the shelves across the globe. Launched five years ago, it has been »
East meets ease - Building a house can make or break a couple. Or their architect. And yet, sometimes, the right combination of communication and collaboration makes the whole process pleasant. »
Enter entrée - Davao City's nightlife bustles anew with the opening of Entrée at the Apo View Hotel. Now the restaurant is packed because of its sumptuous lunch and dinner buffets. »
Her dance - Jing Turalba's Exploits on the Dining Table, an exhibition of her recent works (acrylic on masonite and canvas), was shown recently at the ground floor of Rockwell Power »
Her son also rises - Citizen Cory is enjoying her retirement, thank you. She paints still lifes and flowers redolent with her innately boundless optimism that somehow obscures the sufferings of her adulthood: »
Homecoming queens - Maria Katrina Lopez Abello, or Maiki for short, will never forget the frail little boy she met in Iloilo last July 2006. The occasion was the 105th birth »
Love and scandal in old Cebu - The most memorable love stories do not always have happy endings. And this is true in old Cebu. One may be surprised to know that this rather conservative »
Luxury - ? Or something like it. We hear it everywhere these days we don't really know what it means anymore
What is luxury? These days, everywhere we are »
One Guide, One Halo-Halo - It all started with a Time magazine cover story dated May 22, 2006: "The Best of Asia," filled with lovely Afghan landscapes and Thai tigers. I leafed »
Portrait of the artist as bon vivant - Antonio Garcia Llamas was one of the best-known portrait artists of postwar Philippine high society. Born in the Philippines to Spanish parents, he studied in Spain and Italy, »
Precious Ones - Carissa Oledan Coscolluela and her insights on the luxury jewelry industry
Carissa Oledan Coscolluela continues her family's seven-generation long tradition of excellence in the world of haute joaillerie. Her »
Private Ben - When Ben Chan calls, they come. The well-dressed set of the lifestyle and fashion papers make sure their presence is known. Society A-listers, from the Zobel brothers Fernando »
Scents of summer - This season's deliverables from the luxury perfume houses are all about freshness, crisp citrus notes, and laid-back masculinity »
Spanish nights - InterContinental Manila, Singapore Airlines, and Princess Cruises treated an appreciative crowd from government, diplomatic, business, travel, society, and media to a culinary and visual overview of Barcelona. The »
Suit Yourself - Some people are born with a silver spoon in their mouths. My friends say I was born in a suit! In Italy many of us were simply raised »
Sweat in Luxury - When the biggest thing to ever happen to fitness clubs in Manila suddenly becomes the 7 Eleven of gyms, you know its time to throw in the complimentary »
The festive few - Instead of the usually large crowd they used to invite in the past few years, the couple decided to throw a more intimate gathering with 40 of their »
The legacy has become his lifestyle - One evening, I think it was in 1989, after a slew of military coups against the Cory Aquino administration, Noynoy told me casually on the phone -- "You »
The pursuit of happiness - To many dedicated cigar smokers and single malt aficionados, Kipling's -- tucked away in an inconspicuous corner of the Mandarin Oriental Manila -- is their private sanctuary. In »
Touching heaven - Near the bridge connecting Panglao Island to the Bohol mainland stands one of the province's best-preserved and most beautiful structures. Set in one of Bohol's oldest and most »
Traces of the perfect past - "Sometimes, early in the morning, we would go deerhunting. Our party was made up of nine hunters, of whom several I must admit, could only be called this »
Wine colored days - Bordeaux. Three days. Six wineries. Pure oenophilic bliss
The Philippine flag flies proudly alongside the EU colors at the stately gates of Chateau Siran, overlooking a sunny, endlessly »
