For weeks during the holiday season, Yerba Buena Gardens in downtown San Francisco is colorfully adorned with Christmas lanterns. While they are beautiful decorations, they also serve as a nod to the ...

When I first saw red paper chains strung up in my friend’s Brooklyn apartment last year, I thought: Cute! What a fun throwback to Christmases of yore, and a way to make the place ten times cozier as ...

One would immediately know if the person celebrating Christmas is a Filipino through the iconic "parol." One of the symbols of Christmas in the Philippines is the “parol” or the Christmas lantern.

The holidays shine a little brighter thanks to one iconic symbol: the Filipino parol, a lantern that represents hope, unity, and the spirit of the season. And every year, the Bay Area gathers to ...

QUEZON CITY (PIA) – The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and Korean Cultural Center (KCC) in the Philippines launched “Light the Season: A Korea-Philippines Lantern Display” Monday, ...

In Tagalog, paliwanag means to explain, but its root liwanag means light. This short film follows that spirit as two Filipino Canadians share the brilliance of the parol, the star-shaped lantern that ...

First the penny. Next, paper checks? When the US Mint stopped making pennies last month for the first time in 238 years, it drew a lot of attention. But there have been quiet moves to stop using paper ...

COLORFUL LIGHTS. A colorful parol handcrafted by persons deprived of liberty in Iloilo City. The local government here and the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry officially lit around 1,000 ...