• How basketball defines the essence of being Filipino

  By Daniel de la Rosa He was supposed to stay in the Philippines for only one year, but New Yorker Rafe Bartholomew wound up going for three. That sounds like a line from a basketball game. Why go for a point on the free throw line when you could chuck it up for 3 points […]

  Posted: March 20th, 2011 ˑ  No Comments
  Filled under: Books, Sports

• ‘Took me 50 years to read all of Carlos Bulosan’s books’

  By Cristina DC Pastor; TF photo R Sonny Sampayan shares vicarious memories of celebrated Asian American writer Carlos Bulosan, the granduncle he never met. TF: Exactly how are you related to Carlos Bulosan? RSS: My paternal grandfather Marcos Sampayan and Carlos’ mother Meteria are siblings. So it’s Carlos Sampayan Bulosan. TF: And you never met. […]

  Posted: February 22nd, 2011 ˑ  5 Comments
  Filled under: Books, History