The 5th Negros Island Organic Farmers Festival is slated on December 2-4, to celebrate the gains that the local organic food stakeholders and organizers have achieved since the festival started in 2006. The three-day festival, considered as the first and the longest running festival of its kind in the country, will feature cooking demonstrations of […]
Much Ado About Adobo at the 13th Adobo Festival
Adobo is perhaps the Philippine’s national food but there are as many ways to jazz up this Filipino culinary masterpiece as there are islands in the Philippines. Thus it’s no surprise that Negros, a melting pot of culture with rich influences from the Europeans and Chinese, is also a culinary haven for various foods and […]
Cinco de Noviembre 2010 Celebrations
Negros Occidental will be celebrating the 112th Cinco de Noviembre this year and there will be a lot of activities in celebration of what is known as Negros Day. It’s also a non-working holiday in Negros Occidental so it will also be a good time to reacquaint ourselves with what the Negros Revolution is all […]
Leaving in Style: Negros Mausoleum Architecture
Cemeteries are rich resources of different styles of architecture as shown in the elaborate tombs and mausoleums. Although some of the rich families transferred the remains of their family members to modern cemeteries in the city, some of the mausoleums are still left intact. The Jayme-Gamboa Mausoleum was where Tana Dicang was temporarily buried during […]
Unearthing Stories and Urban Legends
Death is the ultimate equalizer. No matter what your status in life, you eventually die. But the manner and the place in which one is buried are far from equal. You would know the difference between the statuses of the man whose grave was simply marked from the one who has an elaborate mausoleum. Aside […]
Ayala North Point TechnoHub Groundbreaking in Talisay City
It is still fresh in my mind when ALI officer Jay Visco told me during the Launch of Asyana Homes last August 2009 that, as quoted, “everything Ayala has planned for Negros will unfold right before your very eyes.” And he did not disappoint me. From that day on, I witnessed several developments from Ayala […]
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