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As summer approaches, always be ready for spontaneous adventures with easy-style casual classics that are perfect for hot, sunny days. Now is the time to stock your closet with timeless, easy-to-wear pieces that can be paired with just about anything.

By now, many Filipinos—from politicians and journalists to entertainers and activists to pastors and prelates—have weighed in on boxing icon and delinquent legislator Manny Pacquiao’s outrageous comments about gays and lesbians in relationships being worse than animals on various media, and on the unprecedented backlash the aspiring senator’s carelessly chosen words have generated.

Award-winning actress and television personality Iza Calzado has been appointed at the newest national ambassador of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)-Philippines, the environmental organization said recently.

By Ma. Cristina C. Arayata / Philippines News Agency It seems scrap materials now have a special place in the world of fashion.

Crowne Plaza Manila Gal­leria recently welcomed the newest member of its family, Cantonese-cuisine expert Peter Yeung, who was chosen to lead the kitchen of Xin Tian Dai, said to be one of Metro Manila’s finest Chinese restaurants.

Among the 12 months, February is particularly important for Filipinos in the arts. It is, after all, National Arts Month, and for many performing-arts companies, this is when they mount their season-closing productions. If you want to see the local arts scene as its most visible and, it can be argued, most vibrant, then there is no better time than …

As part of ongoing efforts to promote Philippine and foreign literary works to Bikolanos, Franz Kafka’s celebrated 1915 novella The Metamorphosis, or Die Verwandlung in the original German, has now been translated into the Bikol language, and published as An Pagkagimata ni Gregor Samsa (The Awakening of Gregor Samsa). 

Back when being environment-friendly was not yet in vogue, highly regarded artist Fernando C. Modesto would often insert comments like ”to the revolution” and “this is good for the environment” in conversations that often received puzzled reactions from his friends and fellow artists.

Set hearts ablaze this Valentine season with a romantic retreat to Richmonde Hotel Ortigas (RHO). 

Even if Heneral Luna failed to nab an Academy Award nomination for best foreign language film when this year’s Oscar nominations were announced last month, the blockbuster biopic continues to earn accolades overseas.