Lifestyle & Features

If you and your friends need to retreat from your busy, energy-sapped lives in Metro Manila and spend a night or two surrounded by sand, sea, slopes and sunlight, there’s really only one place—one that isn’t too far from the metropolis— that comes to mind: Nagsasa Cove in San Antonio town, Zambales province.

German bier bar and restaurant chain Brotzeit has given Bonifacio Global City in Taguig City another terrific place where lovers of good German food and beer can to go when it opened its latest branch at Shangri-La at the Fort last month. 

By Azer N. Parrocha / Philippines News Agency Good news, food-loving tourists: the Philippines’s best regional cuisines are now compiled in one handy culinary-travel guidebook that, according to tourism officials, will entice local and foreign travelers to embark on a gastronomic journey in the country. 

There’s a reason the expression “Thank God it’s Friday!” was coined: It signals the end of another tiring week and the start of a restful—or, for some, adventurous—weekend. 

This month, Makati Shangri-La will treat mothers like British royalty with “The Grand Getaway: My Queen Mum” staycation package, which invites moms and their loved ones to taste the best of Great Britain, complete with classic sweets and treats for every queen mum. 

Cakes and cookies have long been considered as sweet comfort foods that never fail to make us smile. These two delightful snacks always make moments worth celebrating with family and friends. 

By Alvin I. Dacanay Members of Manila’s literary community last week expressed grief and gratitude for, and paid tribute to, prize-winning writer and editor Luis Joaquin M. Katigbak, who succumbed to complications from diabetes and kidney disease on April 20. He was 41.

The National Book Development Board (NBDB) is set to hold the 7th annual Philippine International Literary Festival (PILF) on April 28 and 29 at the Quezon Memorial Circle’s QCX Museum, and it will have “Against Forgetting” as this year’s theme. 

The National Book Development Board (NBDB) and the Manila Critics Circle (MCC) are now accepting nominations for the 35th National Book Awards (NBA). 

Leading computer and smartphone company Lenovo continues to court tech-savvy millennials seeking better mobile-entertainment options by introducing two new phones embedded with its virtual-reality (VR) technology that promises to enliven whatever multimedia content they play in a new way.