Friday 18th May 2012

Glady

Ready to Experience the Great Adobo Lunch?

The 14th Adobo Festival on Saturday, November 5, 9am-2pm at the Balay Negrense boasts of the The Great Adobo Lunch which will highlight past winning recipes of the annual food competition and fair. The menu will include last year’s winner Adobo Crevette A L’Anglaise by Robert Harland. The other champion Adobo dishes and heirloom recipes [...]

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Arts, Culture & Heritage

Silay, Cinco De Noviembre and the Philippine Independence

Celebrate 113 years of Independence in the very place where it started! When the Spanish civil guards in Silay under Lt. Maximiano Correa signed the Acta de Rendicion or surrender papers on that fateful 5th of November 1898, our revolutionary leaders and the people of Silay who joined the struggle for freedom were not aware [...]

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Arts, Culture & Heritage

2011 Cinco de Noviembre Celebratins in Silay City

Silay City in cooperation with Brgy. Cinco de Noviembre Barangay Council, Liga ng mga Barangay and Hugyaw Silay, Inc. will memorialize Cinco de Noviembre 1898 event on November 5. Mayor Jose Montelibano said that the celebration will honor the heroic deeds of Silay ancestors, the hacenderos and the jornaleros, who joined forces to defeat Spanish [...]

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Featured

Caido del Cielo: Heaven Sent for Our Enjoyment

Before they wore the hat of restaurateur, they were already engineers, educators and inventors. Caido del Cielo was not in their immediate plan but as the name suggests, it’s a blessing in disguise sent from heaven for a purpose. The space at Sta. Isabel Bldg. in Yakal St. was initially rented by a friend of [...]

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Food & Dining

A Day About Food, Writing & Negros with Amy Besa

The best part of the workshop was not even because it’s free. I would have paid for it if that was the case. The best part was because Amy Besa was the instructor for the Food Writing and Food Research Workshop. The fact that it’s still free made me doubly grateful to the Negros Museum. [...]

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Sports, Entertainment & Lifestyle

Up Close and Personal with Kapuso Stars

I’m not a loyal Kapuso, Kapamilya or Kapatid. I channel surf among the few channels on my TV and sometimes the TV serves as a background to keep me awake while I blog. I have to admit though that I’m quite familiar with the Kapuso Stars with Telenovelas on primetime. If not by name, at [...]

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Sports, Entertainment & Lifestyle

Brillante “Dante” Mendoza: World Class Filipino Director

We had a chance to be invited to an intimate presscon with Brillante “Dante” Mendoza at SM City Bacolod during the Brillante Medoza Film Festival. Direk Dante won Best Director for his independent film Kinatay at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. His other films Lola, Serbis, Foster Child, among others have also won various awards [...]

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Coffee Shops

Kaffe Sadtu: No Frills Coffee

Way before fancy coffee drinks were introduced to us, we drank coffee plain or with milk and sugar. We Filipinos drink a lot of coffee since we’re the only Asians who drink more coffee than tea. Just like tea, coffee drinking is a social thing that’s why local kapehan flourished where you get to drink [...]

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Featured

MassKara Queen 2011 Winners

Bacolod City will wake up with a new MassKara Queen. Alexis Danica “Nikki” Drilon was crowned MassKara Queen 2011 at the pageant night held at the University of Saint La Salle (USLS) Coliseum Monday night (Oct. 17). Drilon, a Biology senior at USLS, was also a crowd favorite and corporate sponsors’ choice. Here is the [...]

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Featured

MassKara 2011 Streetdance Competition Winners

Here are the official MassKara 2011 Streetdance Competition Winners for Barangay Category: Barangay Banago was declared champion in the 32nd MassKara Festival street and arena dance competition Sunday night (Oct. 16), besting 14 other groups that competed in the barangay category. Choreographed by William Bangcaya, Banago also won the special awards for Best in Concept [...]

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Featured

Merci Lights Up Lacson Strip for Electric Masskara 2011

Electric Masskara 2011 will again light up the Lacson Tourism Strip on October 14 and 15. Now on its 5th year, Electric Masskara will feature mask-wearing dancers on lit-up floats. The Performing Float Competition will include participants from different barangays on the first day while the second day will showcase electric floats from the corporate [...]

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