Tourism Secretary Wanda Tulfo Teo smashed in a simple baby pink dress when she graced the grand media launch of “Buhay Carinderia... Redefined” at the grand ballroom of the Rizal Park Hotel on Wednesday.
So did Linda Legaspi, the ever active and friendly president and CEO of event organizer Marylindbert International, who wore a light-colored pantsuit with a diaphanous, lightly embroidered jusi overcoat that matched her slimness.
Not to be outdone was Cesar Montano, chief operating officer of the Tourism Promotions Board Philippines. He was smartly dressed in an open-neck white shirt, black coat and dark blue jeans that suited his ultra hip ninja ‘do.
So did celebrity chef Erwan Heusaff, Content Creator of the event and its ambassador, in a no-nonsense, daytime dark suit with an open-neck gray shirt.
In their contemporary appeal, they were like the carinderia food — great-tasting and appetite-satisfying home-cooked delicacies and dishes that is the precursor of fast food — that they were promoting.
The generous native merienda was strictly carinderia: an assortment of rice cakes in small servings like sapin-sapin and kutsinta, arroz caldo, Pancit Malabon and guinatan.
Simple under the brightly lighted chandeliers had never been more elegant!
UNITED ARTISTS OF BOHOL OPENING. Bohol-Buhol is a group of visual artists and their family members from Bohol and other Visayan provinces, who depict their life, passions and interpretations of current social conditions as expressed through art.
Perhaps best translated in English as United Artists of Bohol, Bohol-Buhol holds an annual group show, now on its sixth edition, from April 12 to 30 at the Got Heart Gallery located Lot 10 Block Headed by award-winning mixed-media artist Sam Penaso, the group exhibit features the works of Anafe Nemenzo, Arsenio Lagura Jr., Audie Estrellada, Benedict Axell Macario, Daisydaqs Manluza, Rhanths Anunciado, Elvin Vitor, Glen bpat15 is a group of visual artists and their family members from Bohol and other Visayan provinces, who depict their life, passions and interpretations of current social conditions as expressed through art.
Perhaps best translated in English as United Artists of Bohol, Bohol-Buhol holds an annual group show, now on its sixth edition, from April 12 to 30 at the Got Heart Gallery located Lot 10 Block 10 Katipunan Ave., White Plains, Quezon City.
Headed by award-winning mixed-media artist Sam Penaso, the group exhibit features the works of Anafe Nemenzo, Arsenio Lagura Jr., Audie Estrellada, Benedict Axell Macario, Daisydaqs Manluza, Rhanths Anunciado, Elvin Vitor, Glen Lumantao, Jeffrey Sisican, Joey Labrador, Joseph Ingking, Janseen Bantugan, Froilan Galpo, Rica Duenas, Rico Tompong, Nicole Asares, Gay Ido Bernaldez, Gabriel Café, Roy Ferre, Joeven Polo, Lucell Larawan, Henri Cainglet, Lloyd Lusica, Boggs Castro, Geovanni Abing, Liza Broce Oppus, Omar Dagdayan, Keith Ancog, Paul Inting, Glems Barte, Victor Bulala, Mark Anthony Cartilla, Rica Duenas, Victor Bulala, Arsenio Lagura Jr., Darwin Alingig, Betsy Alterado, Cesar Montano, Rommel Manhilot, Joselito Manhilot, Julius Tongco, Mark Anthony Cartilla, Rolando Paloso, Joselito Alipala, Guy Custudio, Oliver Davidas, Jhacky Curambao, Jumjum Ouano, F Jordan Carnice, Sylvia Gonser, Melbourne Aquino, Irish Glori Galoon, Edgar Corneto, Joselito Jandayan, Felix Amoncio, Dyza Bianca Saco, Dea Tsyna Saco, Dby Kastel Saco and Vida May Tirol de Juan.
Guest artists are Fidel Sarmiento, president of the Art Association of the Philippines (AAP), who conducted an art workshop, and Jane Ebarle.
Set up in 2012 at the Renaissance Gallery, the group aims to provide artists from Bohol and other Visayan provinces with exhibit opportunities in Metro Manila. Among its supporters were Cesar Montano, Nene Lungay, Ric Ramasola, Guy Costudio and Maryo delos Reyes.
Last month, the Philippine Arts Month, they finished Bohol-Buhol 5 at ICM Mall held at Talimbaw Gallery in Albur, Bohol. Penaso also brought the AAP president, Froilan Galpo and Anafe Nemenzo to Bohol to conduct an art workshop and showed them the Baclayon Church, the tarsiers, Chocolate Hills, Panglao Beach, Loboc River and other scenic spots.
GOING FULLY DIGITAL. Due to a dwindling circulation and higher publication costs, magazine stands will have fewer titles to display.
Summit Media has announced it is closing the remaining print editions of its brands Cosmopolitan Philippines, Preview, Pep, Top Gear, FHM and Town and Country. After 23 years in the publishing industry, it is going fully digital.
“As we embark on our new journey towards a wholly digital future, we look back at the values that made us successful, and one thing that stands out is our respect for our audiences,” Summit Media president Lisa Gokongwei-Cheng said in a statement.
DECORATE YOUR MAN CAVE WITH DINO SKELETONS. “Dinosaurs have become cool, trendy — real objects of decoration, like paintings,” the Italian expert citing Hollywood actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicolas Cage, fans of such outsize prehistoric ornaments.
Cage, however, did hand back the rare skull of a tyrannosaurus bataar, a close cousin of T. Rex, that he bought in 2007 after it was found to have been stolen and illegally taken out of Mongolia.
In 1997, McDonald’s and Walt Disney were among donors stumping up $8.36 million to buy Sue — the most complete and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex ever found — for the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
“For the last two or three years, the Chinese have become interested in paleontology and have been looking for big specimens of dinosaurs found on their soil, for their museums or even for individuals,” said Iacopo Briano of Binoche et Giquellon, the auction house that is putting the two dinosaurs under the hammer.
The new buyers are now bidding against multinational corporations as well as ultra-rich Europeans and Americans, the “traditional” buyers of dinosaur skeletons, Briano added.
The skeletons of an allosaurus and a diplodocus are up for auction in Paris, marketed as hip interior design objects — for those with big enough living rooms. “The fossil market is no longer just for scientists,” added Briano.
Dinosaur bones are increasingly gracing collectors’ cabinets, with another huge skeleton, that of a theropod, expected to fetch up to 1.5 million euros ($1.84 million) when it goes up for auction in June.
“Millions of people come to see it, it’s incredible publicity for companies,” said Eric Mickeler, a natural history expert for the Aguttes auction house.