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On Global Filipinos: Actor-producer Lou Diamond Phillips is author of Young Adult fantasy novels
By Loida Nicolas Lewis When Filipino American actor Lou Diamond Philips arrived for The Loida Lewis Podcast, I was starstruck. He looked like a distinguished professor, with silver streak in his hair and on his beard, still handsome as he has always been. His breakout film “La Bamba” in 1987 was the bio-pic of Ritchie Valens, who died […]
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Introducing the history and philosophy of Filipino cuisine to the children of the diaspora
By Cristina DC Pastor It is still winter in New York and if you perhaps sometimes catch yourself dreaming of languid days in the Philippines, they will be filled with the golden sun, the warm sea, and of course the island cuisine that makes the Philippines the land of our hearts. There’s a book that […]
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The Promising Pal
By Margie Tayone Bruce Excerpt from author Margie Tayone Bruce’s sixth novel “The Promising Pal,” a romance fiction about teen lovers broken up by distance. Issa Maayo cannot forget her first love, the boy she left behind, the precious innocent moments they shared, and the secrets that led to lies that ultimately led to regrets. […]
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Apicha CEO Therese Rodriguez publishes book of poetry, finds writing ‘empowering’
By Marivir Montebon The launch of the poetry book “Parañaque to New York City: Fifty Poems” flowed splendidly on the evening of October 24 in downtown Manhattan, a full circle moment for author Therese Rodriguez, a civil rights champion and CEO of Apicha Community Health Center. Steadfast in her activism for public health and human […]
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Author Bong Serrano hosts NYC book signing to aid typhoon relief efforts
Join Filipino-Canadian Author Bong Serrano for an evening of nostalgic storytelling and support for Philippine Typhoon Relief at the Philippine Consulate in New York Filipino-Canadian author Bong Serrano, in partnership with the Philippine Consulate General in New York, invites the public to a book signing benefit for his memoir, “Batangas: My Sky and Earth—An Intimate […]
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The Babaylan and her cultural influence on Filipino society
By Allen Gaborro The Babaylan’s fundamental relation to the indigenous epoch that is pre-colonial Philippines has long been one of an annulled past. Sylvia Mayuga writes about this in “Back from the Crocodile’s Belly: Philippine Babaylan Studies & the Struggle for Indigenous Memory,” as “a record of severe struggle to hang on to our [indigenous] […]
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Agustin Guido III: Portrait of a nurse as a writer
By Maricar C. Padilla Agustin ‘Gus’ Guido III was a 28-year-old bedside nursing newbie in the U.S. when this story happened. He was doing his rounds and walked into an elderly patient’s room. The 85-year old-woman smiled affectionately at him and said, “Oh, honey, you’re just what the doctor ordered!” He laughed it off thinking […]
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‘We Cook Books’ presents panel discussion at S.F. book festival
The 7th Filipino American International Book Festival is back on October 12 to 13, 2024 at the San Francisco Public Library. Every two years, the Philippine Artists and Writers Association (PAWA) brings together the largest gathering of FilAm authors from the USA and from abroad, in a book festival. One of the anticipated events is the […]
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How Rodrigo Duterte brought the Philippines to its ‘twilight zone’
By Allen Gaborro In the post-EDSA I political and social milieu, it was hardly surprising that millions of Filipinos embraced former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s highly controversial stratagems and actions, or what political scientist, media personality, and academic intellectual Richard Javad Heydarian refers to in his expository book, “The Rise of Duterte: A Populist Revolt […]