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Christian San Jose

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Lost no more: Inu, the Shiba who wandered into Karrivin, has found a home

Prior to being adopted, Shoyu Inu (his new name), was nurtured by the members of the Karrivin community in Makati from the time he was found in December

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Savory banana chips exist! I may never go back to sweet ones

Move over, original sweet banana chips! These barbecue-, sour cream-, and garlic-flavored variants are now my go-tos

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Baguio’s famed bakehouse and cafe Rebel is now open in Maginhawa, QC

No need to hike up north to taste their laminated pastries. Best of all, you can preorder to secure your croissants and danishes before they run out

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Greenbelt 1 is not the first Locsin building demolished in Makati and it will not be the last

Before he was a National Artist for Architecture, Locsin’s prolific body of work began with a few buildings along and around Ayala Avenue—where most of it also met their fall

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Journalist Patricia Evangelista returns to PH for ‘Some People Need Killing’ book tour

Catch the ‘Some People Need Killing’ author this April at a series of book talks and signing in Manila, Baguio, and Cebu

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These are the coolest streets in the Philippines—literally

We are currently living in an air fryer the size of a country. Luckily, there are a few low-temperature local destinations to cool off in this summer

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Holy Week 2024: Restaurants, cafes, bars, shops, and recreational spaces to go to if you’re staying in the city

A guide on how to spend your Holy Week weekend if you’re staying in the city

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Linda Ty-Casper is a trail-blazing fictionist you should read if you want to unlearn textbook history

Exploding Galaxies’ Mara Coson on the new edition of the author’s 1979 book “The Three-Cornered Sun” and why it’s still relevant nearly half a century after its publication

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How a Filipino chef pulled off an artsy dinner with binakol, pandesal, and kakanin in NYC

Lj Almendras’ six-course menu for Nicole Coson’s exhibit opening at Silverlens New York is an extension of the show’s literal and metaphorical theme of vessels and a response to America’s past attempts to erase our culinary identity

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Even environmentalist and TikToker Celine Murillo is sometimes sad in the company of trees

“This work is both rewarding and heartbreaking [but] acknowledging and sitting with our emotions, even the unpleasant ones, is a form of resistance,” says the viral creator mainstreaming Philippine native trees