Arts & Culture, History, News & Features from Metropolitan Cagayan de Oro
A Kagay-anon chef based in New Orleans, USA has been raising the bar for Filipino-inspired dishes in a city famous worldwide for its multi-ethnic cuisine. Most recently, Nicole “Nikki” Cabrera-Mills of the Pêche Seafood Grill was spotlighted in a feature article Sublime Seafood by John T. Edge on The Entertainment Special August/September 2023 issue of …
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By Tito Mike Three Kagay-anon designers have made it as finalists to the Habi Kadayawan Luxe Wear Apparel and Fashion Accessories Design Competition, one of the flagship events of Davao City’s 38th Kadayawan Festival. Shine J. Casiño’s “Higalaay Splendor” was chosen of the ten finalists for the Apparel category, while Christopher Gomez’s “Panolong Clutch Bag” and Oscar …
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Now on exhibit at the new gallery Carmen Art District in #20 Andres Fernandez corner V. Neri Streets in Barangay Carmen Cagayan de Oro City, Coming Home is a gathering of the works of art of Kelly Ramos in a span of two decades of artmaking. This little retrospective provides a rare opportunity to see …
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Chicken Humba takes center stage this August as the Cagayan de Oro Hotel and Restaurant Association (COHARA) hosts its first ever Hala Kumbira Inter-barangay Competition at the 5th floor SM CDO Downtown Premier Event Hall on August 18, 2023 starting 1:00 pm. Competitors will be challenged to develop a recipe to promote Chicken Humba as a signature …
A Kagay-anon chef based in New Orleans, USA has elevated the humble singkamas (turnip) to a sleeper hit in a city renowned worldwide for its Creole cuisine. In an article published in the 19 April 2023 issue of The New York Times Magazine, cooking writer and columnist Eric Kim raved about Nicole “Nikki” Cabrera-Mills Citrus-Glazed …
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A Kagay-anon artist has taken the ubiquitous Pusô famous in the street food culture of Southern Philippines and transformed it into an objet d’art embellished with traditional indigenous designs which has made it worthy of the haute couture catwalks of Paris, Tokyo and Shanghai. Pusô, which Filipinos often translate to foreign guests as hanging rice, is …
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The long-cherished vision of an exclusive Art Hub for Cagayan de Oro’s artist community is off to a good start with the launching of The Photo Alley at the Limketkai Center on April 1st. “As a visual art, photography has the least exposure in the city, delegated to only a few weeks per year and …
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Its Humanities Program will continue to play a critical role in the Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan (Xavier Ateneo) Campus of the Future soon to rise at Manresa. “For Xavier Ateneo to remain an authentic Jesuit university, we should continue to have humanities subjects in its higher education curriculum,” Xavier Ateneo President Fr Mars P. Tan SJ PhD …
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Mindanao Literatures got a much needed shot in the arm with the recent launching of 3 anthologies covering over a century of its writings. TAGBO 3 From Places to Pages: Writing, Publishing, Teaching, and Studying Mindanao Literatures was hosted by the Department of English Language and Literature, and Xavier University Press at the Xavier Ateneo …
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Veteran Kagay-anon Journalist launches book on her CDO-MISOR media journey Veteran Kagay-anon and Misamisnon Journalist Susan Naelga Palmes-Dennis will be launching her book Just My Opinion which marks a personal and professional milestone in her life and career in media. The book launch is scheduled on March 1st, 2:30PM at Marco Hotel, Cagayan de Oro …
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