EVERYONE has a favorite comfort food. Be it a dish or a dessert. Be it sweet, sour, bitter or salty. and not only does this generates or evokes childhood or adult memories, but it also paves the way for more future memories into our more mature years.

WITH the release of the latest in computer software, the magic of digital manipulation and the advent of the stylus and the touch screen, we rarely see artists today intently drawing with a pencil and paper.

More often than not, art is directed straight from the creative mind to the…

MORE than a thousand solemnizing officers from various religious sects and denominations, members of the judiciary, city/municipal mayors and city/municipal civil registrars and other stakeholders are expected to gather on August 2 to 4 at Ilocos Norte Hotel and Convention Center in Laoag City…

INDIVIDUALS and organizations can function effectively and efficiently and our world is inhabitable because of support. It is a vital form of sustenance and the underpinning for growth and change.

TO PROMOTE Cagayan de Oro as a center of outdoor adventure activities and to promote trail running as an alternative outdoor activity, all committed outdoor people, dedicated trail and road runners, nature lovers and beginners will hit the trail in the first-ever Kagay-an Eco Trail run on August…

THE act of breastfeeding has a long history to tell.

THE study on the herbal potential of madre de cacao leaf stalk by a team of students from Gusa Regional Science High School capped the top prize in the recently concluded Regional Invention Contest.

UNDENIABLY, life is brief and fleeting, that’s why wisdom directs us that the people must serve God with all his strength, his heart and his mind, too, and for us to love our neighbors, the way we love our selves.

GREAT food. Great taste. What else do we find in a dish? Simplicity? Ease of preparation? Visually appealing? Different spices to perk up our senses? and maybe more.

TWELVE lovely candidates for the Miss Kagay-an 2011 search recently met the members of the Cagayan de Oro tri-media in a very wholesome, friendly and much casual than previous “Meet the Press” pocket activity at the Gardens of Malasag in Barangay Cugman on Monday.

SIXTY social activists will be selected from all over the world to attend the Global Youth Summit in England on November 13 to 19.

The participants will spend a week in UK sharing best practices in the areas of human rights, climate change, poverty reduction, education, HIV/Aids and…

FASHION has become an avenue to express love for one’s country.

THE Cagayan de Oro Hotel and Restaurant Association (Cohara) will celebrate the 15th year of Kumbira Culinary show and Live Competitions.

Themed “15th Years of Culinary Innovations,” Kumbira will once again feature the participants both in the professional and the student divisions in 23…

FIRST described by Adolf Weil in 1886 as an acute infectious disease with spleen enlargement, jaundice and kidney problems as its signs and symptoms, leptospirosis was once thought to be exclusively contracted from rats alone.

EVERY woman dreams of a happily-ever-after wedding day just like Cinderella and the rest of the Disney princesses.

“IF PEOPLE don’t believe in the goodness of man, how can they believe in the goodness of God?”

This wisdom of the author, Frank Mihalic, SVD, taught my heart to believe.

My family and I, for the first time, experienced stepping on foreign lands through the promo tickets that we…

KUMON Philippines held its 4th Education and Parenting Seminar last June 18, 2011 at the SM Mall of Asia.

The free parenting seminar, entitled “I am an Achiever!” centered on the challenge to believe and discover that each child can be an achiever plus more!

Kumon believes that to…

MY WIFE and I believed in church wedding for it is a foundation to a family, a basic unit of society.

So I got married to my wife some 40 years ago in 1971 here in our city at the Nazareno Church with the late Fr. Luis Cebrero as the officiating priest.

When we had a family…

ONE ultra all-time favorite dish among Filipinos is adobo – be it chicken, pork or a mixture of the two. It has become almost like a “national” dish to everyone, if I may say so. and that everyone has their own version of preparing and cooking it and I am also pretty sure has a story to share…

THE ultimate kiddie talent search, SM little Stars 2011, will hold an audition on July 16, Saturday, at 11 a.m. at Atrium, Ground Floor of SM City Cagayan de Oro.

The contest is open to boys and girls age four to seven years old who are cute, photogenic/telegenic, charming, with pleasing…

THE Dragon in all of us, individuals and organizations, is our fear of change. fear of change holds back our potential, the contributions we could make and our ability to experience the wonders and adventures of life. Adventure and safety coexist when we know ourselves well enough to step, not…

“Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.” — Bernard M. Baruch

IT’S red and tempting. That is probably the best description I can personally give to apples apart from their being handy and a natural mouth freshener; thus, earning them the title “nature’s…

MASS-Specc, the oldest and largest federation of primary cooperatives in Mindanao, put out a commencing salvo when its 2011-2012 officers were officially installed last June 17, 2011.

The oath taking of the new officers was officiated by Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo at the N…

WHILE overwhelmed after she gave birth to identical quadruplet boys – the first quadruplets in Cagayan de Oro – 26-year-old mother Emelyn Deoduco says she honestly finds it increasingly difficult to cope.

TUBOD, Lanao del Norte – More than five thousand people witnessed the crowning of 19-year-old Angel Lou Pates as the 2011 Ms. Lanao del Norte.