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• Tribute to poet-prof Luis Francia • Human rights lawyer Len Weinglass, 77 • Visita Iglesia around Broadway
In this special 20th anniversary workshop reading, the Asian American Writers Workshop honors on April 8 Luis H. Francia, poet, journalist, professor, and former board member of the AAWW. Francia will read selections from his works, including from the just published chapbook “The Beauty of Ghosts,” alongside writer/friends. Linda Faigao Hall, Nita Noveno, Susan Soriano, […]
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• Vanessa Hudgens as ‘badass’ Blondie • A book of masters’ paintings • Focus group looking for immigrants
Disney darling Vanessa Hudgens was in town March 8 for a series of media interviews to promote “Sucker Punch,” a fantasy action film. She plays Blondie, one of five young girls locked in a futuristic asylum and who plot to escape their captors. The other girls with Vanessa are Abbie Cornish, Emily Browning, Jena […]
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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 […]
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‘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. […]