The ham is the message
Many suitors come calling, but only King Sue ham is surely one to bring home to mother. She’s the leading authority on everything — and always puts it with some kind of narcissistic reprisal —…
Must help the arts
It was a table arranged to encourage conversations, where even small talks sounded big. “We must help the arts!” a man in finery raised a toast in declaration, over opulent dinner and hungry artists. A…
Finding light in darkness
In prison, freedom can be a privilege conferred in old age. Many, however, can have misgivings about rejoining society. Can a person be truly free when he or she has been forgotten? Some 60 aging…
Science in a glass
Filipinos consume 43 percent of world’s gin. That may just be the right swig to make any gin snob feel right at home — in the mellow, booze-blind company of men you see huddling ‘round-the…
Man Things
It’s one of the many roles of men with women in tow: wait outside Watsons because shopping for cosmetics isn’t just becoming of a real man’s tough side. Thump your chest, fellas; Watsons has a…
Israel’s evening hour
Nothing quite kept the country’s bewigged society from celebrating the night’s big shindig like a debut couture show, layered with deconstructed Filipiniana and well-tailored suits, all singing well-wishes for Israel. The embassy in Manila celebrated…