MANILA, Philippines - Rio in Brazil is famous for the samba orgy that is Mardi Gras. New Orleans celebrates Fat Tuesday with much revelry and drinking. Paoay, Ilocos Norte, in keeping with its deep ...

PAOAY, Ilocos Norte—Ilocano folk wearing “abel”-inspired traditional dresses filled the streets here on Tuesday for a day of merrymaking as Christians prepared for the Lenten season. Tourists and ...

Believed to have originated even before the arrival of the Spaniards, the Guling-Guling Festival morphed into a religious practice in the 16th century, when the Spanish friars attached it with the ...

My only brother Mark used to have a restaurant in Alabang Town Center called Fat Tuesday. I was baffled when I discovered the name of his new venture back then. Up north in Ilocos Norte, they ...