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NYX MARTINEZ meets Kaid Ashton, a globetrotting Canadian graffiti artist who made a stopover in Manila to teach kids in the slums some art. Twenty classes, 90 days, hundreds of kids, and one ordinary guy. Kaid Ashton has just finished class number 19 this morning. I meet him for a chat in Rockwell, Makati, a place …

Words by ERIC WILSON, © 2011 New York Times News Service/Distributed by the New York Times Syndicate Two years ago, on April Fool’s Day, the menswear edition of Style.com  published an article about a hot new design prodigy named Damian Finch, who had wowed the fashion world by showing a full collection at the ripe …

Local journalist BERT LAPUT shares a Dapitan festival of religiosity, revelry and horses with two feet. It was 15 minutes to noon. The mood in Dapitan remained calm, even with the gathering of a huge crowd in front of the church. People talked in subdued voices as street vendors sold snacks. The sun’s heat was …

NYX MARTINEZ revisits the legendary Lang Dulay, a dreamweaver whose tapestries give life to the heritage of the indigenous T’boli tribe of Mindanao. It is dusk on the banks of Lake Sebu in South Cotabato. A small group of journalists awaits the arrival of an old woman named Lang Dulay, the famous T’boli dreamweaver. She …

Photographer AMOS CHAPPLE journeys to the wettest place on earth and finds a people thriving with tree-root bridges as old as their ancestors. The woman drifts alongside us as we walk. “Mister, you should go home,” she says, pointing her chin at the sky. “The rains are coming.” That night we’re woken to rainfall so …

MICHELLE AYUYAO  finds everything that’s fabulous about the ‘50s in a Johnny Rockets burger meal. In the post-war years of the 1950s, just before fastfood joints sprouted across America, all roads led to street-corner diners, where people danced on checkerboard floors, to songs played on coin-operated jukeboxes. Perched behind the high service counters and floor-mounted …

Carlo Calma is the youngest addition to the Philippines’ Calma family known for flawless composition and striking motifs in architectural design. Educated in design and architecture in the United Kingdom, Carlo believes that aesthetic beauty in design is merely secondary if not supported by theory. This was evident in his recent exhibit of an 18-piece …

What makes a good photograph? Is it the scenery? The subject? The photographer? We at Mabuhay magazine love scenes that draw us right into the captured moment—pictures that show something beyond the landscape or ocean view. This month, we sought the meaning of “Anticipation” from you, our readers. Here, we present the best “Anticipation” images that …

Rosa and Artemio were two happy lovers who had exchanged vows of eternal love. They were in the first flush of youth and happiness and were therefore fully confident of the future. Artemio’s faith in Rosa was not to be shaken by the stories circulated by gossips concerning any possible change in the love of …

Chef Marc Aubry, who has been on the Manila food scene for more than 20 years, delights loyal patrons with Champétre, his new French boutique and restaurant. “I don’t play around with the recipes,” he says, “because many who have had the opportunity to travel, are already quite knowledgeable about French cuisine.” Champétre is located …