“Walk this way,” the man in a hat says, and everyone follows. Carlos Celdran has been touring groups around Intramuros for years. At the end of the tour, he tells the group, “We can’t change Manila, but we can change the way we see it.” READ FULL STORY

By Lito Banayo

When I was four or five, we would motor from San Pablo in Laguna to Manila, take a lunch of comida China at a panciteria in Escolta (pictured here in the 1950s) or Sta. Cruz. Sometimes my lola would go visit her lawyer in his Escolta office, and then give me a treat at Botica Boie’s soda fountain, where huge sundaes and parfaits were once upon a happy time now mere memories. READ FULL STORY.