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‘Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros’ screens at NYU on Dec 9
By Gil Quito Years after the MoMA and Film Society of Lincoln Center chose “Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros”/The Flowering of Maximo Oliveros as its opening night presentation for the annual New Directors/New Films exhibition, Auraeus Solito’s “Pagdadalaga” will make a rare return appearance to a New York theater on Friday, December 9, at 7:30 p.m. The screening at New […]
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A Christmas movie full of charm and hilarity
By Wendell Gaa Christmas is always peak season for films and TV specials. From the classic “It’s A Wonderful Life” with the late great Jimmy Stewart to the comedic “Home Alone” films of Macauley Culkin, holiday movies have warmed our hearts and drawn our families closer together this time of the year. Now available for […]
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Remember Tam of ‘Miss Saigon’? Meet Geena Quintos!
By Cristina DC Pastor How many of us who watched “Miss Saigon” on Broadway in the 1990s, thought the young child who played Tam was a boy? How so wrong we were! This week I met 29-year-old theater actress Geena Quintos who remembers going to Broadway Theatre every day for more than a year to […]
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OnlyFans millionaire is ex-Vegas Pinay stripper CJ Miles
One of the highest earning models at OnlyFans.com is a Filipina who was once an in-demand stripper in Las Vegas. The Daily Mail UK is reporting that CJ Miles, who “grew up in poverty in the Philippines,” is among the biggest earners of the popular adult-oriented site where she now makes $200,000 a month. “Now, […]
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Ruby Ibarra wins immigrant award for ‘creative promise in music’
Ruby Ibarra is one of three recipients of 2023 Vilcek Foundation Prize for Creative Promise in Music. She receives the Vilcek Prize for her hip-hop and spoken word performances that center her experience as a Filipina American woman, and for her powerful lyrics that address colonialism, immigration, colorism, and misogyny. Born in Tacloban City in […]
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Fil-Irish artist Julie Ann Earls makes a #Metoo film
Filipino-Irish actor Julie Ann Earls is doing a film inspired by the MeToo movement. It shines a light on the dating culture and asks the question whether there will come a time when men will no longer assume a woman cannot fight back. In her maiden short “Alpha,” Julie Ann is the writer, the producer […]
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Harvard Square welcomes 1st FilAm festival in celebration of FAHM
The first-ever Filipino American Festival in Harvard Square was held on October 9 at Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The event was held in celebration of Filipino American History Month and organized by the Harvard Square Philippine American Alliance (HSPAA). The event was held as part of the Harvard Square Business Association’s 43rd Annual Oktoberfest […]
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2 Filipino actors get breakout roles in Jeffrey Dahmer series
Two young Filipino actors are cast as Jeffrey Dahmer’s brutalized victims in the true crime series “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.” Kieran Tamondong, 20, and Brayden Maniago, 19, portray the Laotian brothers who became victims of the sadistic serial killer from Milwaukee who committed murders from 1978 to 1991. The portrayals of Tamondong as Konerak […]
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Medel Paguirigan, RN: Amid the pandemic, a baritone is born
By Cristina DC Pastor For nearly four decades, Medel Paguirigan diligently forged a career as a New York City nurse until his retirement in 2022. As he rose the ranks from hemodialysis nurse at Brookdale Hospital in the late 1980s to his final role as Corporate Senior Director in Nursing Education at New York Health […]