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IGAN D'BAYAN, The Philippine Star

STAR Lifestyle Section columnist Igan D’Bayan is a musician and visual artist. Igan is obsessed with tropical gothic, horror movies, and old weird books by weird dead writers. He once had a conversation with Thom Yorke about laundry.

Events

Frankfurter Buchmesse 2024: Books strike like printed lightning as ‘imagination peoples the air’

November 10, 2024

Restaurants

Chef Josh Boutwood’s vision for Ember’s fiery fare

October 17, 2024

Art

Mia Herbosa: Still lifes, dead birds, figures in repose, a world learning to breathe again

October 10, 2024

Music

Bringing out the opera in us

September 23, 2024

Restaurants

Bistro Group names its rescued strays after restaurants

September 5, 2024

Art

Junyee through time & space

August 25, 2024

DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE

Kaye Tinga: ‘The CCP is more than just a building; it is a brand, a living entity.’

August 12, 2024

Restaurants

Chef Josh Boutwood’s appetite for evolution

July 11, 2024

Art

Bonhui Uy in a fairy tale of modern industry

June 30, 2024

Art

Elaine O. Herbosa: ‘This show is my swan song’

June 23, 2024

Art

The empire state of Maria Angelica Tan’s art

June 3, 2024

Design

Ed Lantin’s interior monologues in oil

March 11, 2024

Design

Ponce’s gardens of painterly delights

February 17, 2024

Art

Andreea Medar’s love letter to a lost village

February 12, 2024

Art

Tropic of wonder

January 27, 2024

Art

I am therefore AI: Personhood probed in Singapore Art Museum show

January 8, 2024

Art

Somatosonic at the crucible

December 11, 2023

Art

Excess equals exuberance in Singapore show focusing on Philippine art

October 16, 2023

Art

Pandy Aviado & the art of subverting expectations

August 19, 2023

Music

Anya Lagman: ‘A composer is an architect of emotions’

July 30, 2023

Technology

Who’s afraid of big, bad artificial intelligence?

July 28, 2023

Furniture

A timeless story about storage

July 15, 2023

Father's Day

The art of fatherhood

June 18, 2023

Furniture

IKEA Philippines brings forward fresh designs for the summer

April 29, 2023

Art

People, events, dead centaurs, places

April 10, 2023

Art

Marco Ortiga, Christina Dy and Tad Ermitaño: Portrait of the artists as machinists

April 3, 2023

Music

Steinway artist Joja Wendt plays boogie-woogie & Beethoven (with flying bumblebees in between)

March 11, 2023

Art

Albert Avellana: The man who put up a living ‘bahay’ for the creative spirit

February 13, 2023

Art

Norma Liongoren: Portrait of a culture-heroine

February 13, 2023

Art

An invisible thread that binds us all

December 25, 2022

Furniture

Casa Bella & Jinggoy Buensuceso bring the iconic, the cosmic

December 7, 2022

Art

The art of Marco Ortiga: Through the looking glass, weirdly

October 17, 2022

Hobbies

Mechanical alchemy: Custom meets classic in Red Barn superbikes

August 13, 2022

Inspiration

Nick Lizaso: 10,000 stories and one heart for the masses

June 27, 2022

Shopping

Vacheron Constantin opens its first boutique in the Philippines

May 18, 2022

BrandedUp

Art

Heavy liquid: Milk of Dreams at the Venice Biennale

May 16, 2022

Art

Aze Ong weaves a tale of pain & transcendence

March 21, 2022

Literature

Miguel Syjuco & the ongoing war over who will tell the stories the world will know as true

March 14, 2022

Recipes

The home-cooked meals of memory

February 24, 2022

Performing Arts

Cecile Licad in her NYC empire of music sheets & Pinoy recipes

January 24, 2022

Essay

The solitary saga of Manong Frankie

January 7, 2022

Furniture

Hej, Pinoys. IKEA is now open

November 27, 2021

Art

Miguel Augusto Sison & Liza de los Reyes: How imagination takes root

November 22, 2021

Art

Mark Rocha Padernal captures the ‘Unguarded’

November 3, 2021

Art

The world in water

October 11, 2021

Art

Elmer Borlongan’s deep cuts

October 4, 2021

Art

Ronald Ventura’s hyper-realist Olympics

August 9, 2021

Furniture

Something IKEA & iconic this way comes

July 10, 2021

Architecture

A timely tale of mutual support

June 5, 2021

History

The history of struggle is a struggle against oblivion

May 29, 2021

Healthy Living

Eureka eats

April 22, 2021

Art

‘David Medalla has left us to enter the dream’

January 10, 2021

Art

Rainbow on water

October 4, 2020

Art

Through the computer glass darkly

August 17, 2020

Music

Audio inferno: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love ‘Best Audiophile Voices Vol. 4’

August 15, 2020

Art

Ronson Culibrina’s monsoon madness & rainbow spills

July 6, 2020