Word Travels host Robin Esrock talks to NYX MARTINEZ about his adventures and misadventures around the world, and his thoughts on making the world a better place. Tell us more about the accident that led to your life adventure. That was the luckiest break of my life, literally. In 2005, a car went through a …
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The reigning Binibining Pilipinas and Miss Universe 2011 third runner-up reveals her love for learning and her experience on the global stage. WHAT WOULD YOU SAY ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF BEING A SMALL TOWN GIRL? Life was simple. Detached from the modern world, without internet and cable TV, I became more interested in books. Since …
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by NYX MARTINEZ Bear Grylls is taking off his clothes again. No matter that it’s a rerun-his fans will never get tired of watching this adventure-TV host fight for survival in the wild and go to super-extremes to get out alive. Some remember him best for drinking his own urine or self-injecting an enema in …
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Photographer GEORGE TAPAN is one of those gifted with a natural eye. He instinctively sees things which the average people don’t see. But what really sets him apart is his tireless and childlike curiosity. These qualities have earned him prestigious awards from the Pacific Asia Tourism Association (PATA), ASEAN Tourism Association (ASEANTA), and Kalakbay Awards. …
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Her debut novel “Before Ever After” tells the story of love and magical realism set against a backdrop of Europe’s history. She shares with us how her book got published by the world’s largest English-language book publisher. How did you start writing? We had a food franchise business that started running on remote. My son also started school in Ateneo and I had …
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From the moment it first appeared on the Manila gig circuit in 2007 with its danceable brand of intelligent and elaborate indie rock, Taken By Cars has released two acclaimed albums (Endings Of A New Kind in 2008 and Dualist last June), performed in Singapore and Malaysia (including a slot at Singapore’s prestigious Baybeats Festival …
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When you know you are going to dine in an outlet of Irish chef and restaurateur Billy King, you look forward to a memorable dining experience—excellent cuisine, impeccable service and tasteful ambience. Proof of his success and staying power are his many outlets, from Fairways and Bluewater Resort in Boracay to Camp John Hay in …
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The Philippine-born, New York-based designer has worked on the sets of Broadway plays like Love! Valour! Compassion, Once on this Island, and Prelude to a Kiss. Known for his multi-set scenes, Loy has won an L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award, among others, and received an Obie for sustained excellence in set design. Besides doing sets, …
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She didn’t own a digital SLR until 2007, but in April, Ozamiz-born Fil-Am Yen Baet bested hundreds of photographers to win National Geographic’s Exceptional Experience Photo Contest. Yen’s patient wait for the right light between day and darkness captured “A Rainy Night in Halstatt.” Here, the itinerant Fil-Am, now based in England, talks about life as …
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NIKKO DIZON traces the steps and story of artist/mountaineer Tomas Leonor, who walked around the Philippines to raise funds for kids with cancer. He described his project, STEP JUAN, as “a crazy idea” that even his own family and friends, at first, didn’t think he would really do. But the cancer-stricken youngsters whom he met …
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