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Christian San Jose

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Magazine shop Spruce Gallery is all about rekindling Manila’s love for print

Business partners Ric Gindap and Bonnapart Galeng are done with exorbitant local retail prices and extortionate customs fees—but just not yet with print—so they put up their own magazine shop that operates at minimal margins

Get to know Escolta, its history, and its burgeoning creative community at this street party

Hola, Escolta! this Nov. 25 features tours, open studios, and a street party, all in service of reintroducing what was once the “Queen of Manila’s Streets”

A Lino Brocka docu and other films you can watch for free at QCinema 2023

Catch “National Anarchist: Lino Brocka” and short films from Filipino and Southeast Asian filmmakers this month for free

At chef Miko Calo’s Taqueria Franco, transcendent tacos with foie gras, steak, and duck confit

How would a fine dining chef make tacos? At this new Salcedo Village taqueria, Calo explores its possibilities while keeping it playful

UP Vargas Museum opens after-hours for an art-rave party this Sept. 30

Taking cues from Jorge B. Vargas’s hosting residence Kawilihan, the university museum will open its doors past regular hours for a night of art, experimental rock, and electronic dance

Camiguin, a paradise of forgetting

The island’s multitude of landscapes shaped by its volcanic past is the perfect backdrop for temporal disremembrance

Lone copy of Ishmael Bernal’s controversial 1985 film ‘Gamitin Mo Ako’ screens for the first time in years

The movie by the National Artist for Film based on the screenplay by National Artist for Theater and Literature Rolando Tinio will be shown on Sep. 18 at Cinematheque Manila

This La Union vegetarian carinderia is having a P299 eat-all-you-can buffet this long weekend

Plant-based vacationers, add this buffet to your LU long weekend plans

A binatog elote recipe to revive our Indigenous street food culture

Inspired by Mexico City’s vibrant street food scene, food heritage advocate Lao Castillo hopes to rekindle interest in uniquely Filipino snacks among local vendors

Beauty Gonzalez’s excavated gold jewelry gets flak for possibly desecrating burial graves

The actress wore gold neck piece and earrings made of excavated eye and mouth covers, which she said came from places like Butuan and Surigao