Arts & Culture, History, News & Features from Metropolitan Cagayan de Oro
A week ago I was coming back from a business trip in Barangay Indahag, coming down the road at Upper Macasandig when we decided to drop by the newly opened Mediterranean Gourmet Foods. It’s easy to find, at the ground floor of the EJM Building in Maandig Avenue just next door to the now shuttered Kambingan sa …
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Bringing in the written word from the peripheries In pursuit of the Jesuit mission “to reach out to people beyond their frontiers” in Mindanao, Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan’s (Xavier Ateneo) XU PRESS presents itself as an “alternative press” for the Mindanao-focused writings, research and literature, which would otherwise would not have been published by the …
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“Blooms of Legacy, from Seeds of History” As the Ikebana International Cagayan de Oro Chapter 163 marks its golden anniversary this September, one of the things it would be focusing on is passing on their passion to the next generations. “We shall endeavor to teach our children and grandchildren the joys of Ikebana beginning with …
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Kristyn Maslog-Levis is an Australian-based Kagay-anon who’s on a crusade to put Filipino mythology in children’s books overseas. A former news reporter of ABS-CBN TV Patrol Northern Mindanao, Kristyn also hosted shows, wrote scripts for TV specials in Dumaguete City, and had a stint with a weekly talk show for the Department of Health. After getting …
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Washoku (the traditional cuisine of Japan) was already familiar to Cagayan de Oro’s well-heeled residents during the 1970s where it was served during private home parties. However, the name and exact location of the first Japanese restaurant which was reportedly located in Kalambagohan street going towards Burgos street is lost to oblivion. Thus, the first which …
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The town of Manolo Fortich in Bukidnon is renowned for the Del Monte plantation, but there’s more to this upland town than its pineapples. Named in honor of Don Manolo Fortich, a resident of Barrio Damilag and the first Governor (1902-1914) of the District of Bukidnon, the town was originally known as Maluko. Manolo Fortich …
(Gingoog–Claveria–Villanueva Road) Since travel restrictions were lifted, tourists and motorists have been flocking to ogle, gawk, ooh and ahh at the scenic sights and attractions of the Gingoog-Claveria-Villanueva Road in Misamis Oriental. Listed as National Route 955 (N955) in the Philippine Highway Network, the 71 kilometer (44 mile) two-and-four lane secondary highway links the Misamis …
Acclaimed Kagay-anon classical music composer Niño Cesar Borromeo Tiro has parlayed an NCCA grant into the first album of his chamber and classical works. Tiro is a grantee of the NCCA’s 2022 Competitive Grants Program from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) by virtue of his Ani ng Dangal Award given during the …
The Department of Tourism is looking to promote “Faith Tourism” as part of its newest promotional campaign dubbed “Colors of Mindanao” which seeks to showcase to showcase various inter- and intra-regional travel circuits in the six regions of Mindanao. “We are looking to see how we can package Faith Tourism as a holistic experience for …
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Always having a soft spot for the Philippines, Kevin Kwan, the author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy, revealed he is keen to shoot his next movie in the Philippines, although there are no concrete plans. Recently in Manila for the 21st World Travel & Tourism Council Global Summit with Academy Award winning Hollywood producer, Lawrence Bender, Kwan gave a …
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