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Vintage kitchen tools: Behind every feast and celebration

By R.C. Ladrido

Mar 4, 2026

Long before air fryers and breadmakers, convenience in a Philippine kitchen comes with various manual tools and implements that enable a household to host feasts and celebrations, aside from the everyday demands of feeding a family.

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DH/OFW Forever: Rinse and Repeat

By R.C. Ladrido

Feb 1, 2026

6-minute read

Endaya notes that nothing has really changed: The situation repeats itself…While technology has changed from prerecorded messages in cassette tapes to today’s instantaneous text messages and video calls through smartphones, the materialism continues. OFWs shower their children with expensive goods like Nike shoes to make up for their absence; the children have lost affection and nurturance.

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Celebrating the Filipino Spirit in Art Deco

By R.C. Ladrido

Jan 24, 2026

6-minute read

Retaining its Filipino spirit, Philippine Art Deco is characterized with “an eclectic and hybrid interpretation” of traditional motifs integrated with the international style of Art Deco. Using stylized tropical flora such as bamboo, coconut tree, mangoes, bananas, sampaguita, as well as Mindanao’s okir designs, capiz shells, and indigenous textile patterns provided a rich overlay of forms and textures.

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On its 100th year, the Manila Symphony Orchestra needs government support

MSO Executive Director Jeffrey Solares hopes that in the coming years the government will finally lend its support to the orchestra. “The letters are in their archives,” he said, referring to the MSO’s unanswered messages to the government asking for help and sent as far back as the 1950s.

By Liana Garcellano

Jan 12, 2026

8-minute read

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Ethnobotanist Leonard Co is honored with a lecture series launched in his name

Leonard Co: Ang utak, hindi lang ginagamit para mag-imbak ng impormasyon, kundi para pag-isipan ang mga bagay.

By Liana Garcellano

Dec 30, 2025

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When Art remembers and Artists never forget

The first 25 years of the 21st century is almost over, and the turmoil around us continues. A recent exhibit, Hardware 3: Resistance is Fertile at Kaida Contemporary, Quezon City, reflects on the country’s socio-political trajectories through 33 art works by 12 visual artists attuned to the pulse and sentiments of the streets and to the particularities of history.

By R.C. Ladrido

Dec 18, 2025

6-minute read

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