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No raining on this parade, no rain date either
By Lindy Rosales “Nasagupa namin lahat ng ulan. May dala kaming payong at raincoat pero nabasa ang aming pantalon at sapatos. Tinapos talaga namin ang parade.” With fervor and frenzy, Queens resident Relieta Madera, two friends, and a sister from Virginia, made their way to the Philippine Independence Parade on Madison Avenue cloaked in raincoats […]
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FilAm stuntmen choreograph fight scenes in ‘Ninja Turtles’ film sequel
By Wendell Gaa I enjoyed watching the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” (TMNT) cartoon series on TV in the late 1980s when I was growing up, and although I wasn’t a passionate collector of all TMNT-related merchandise the same way my brother was, I couldn’t help but be so amused by the four talking turtle heroes […]
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‘Heneral Luna’ available online for Independence Day
By Dennis Clemente Cinetropa.com, the first Filipino-movie streaming site, is celebrating Philippine Independence Day with the first global streaming of the critically acclaimed “Heneral Luna” starting June 2. The movie will be available online in HD for P288 or $6.99 for those watching outside the Philippines. For this amount, viewers will also get to watch […]
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Reality-magazine TV show slated to air on June 11
East Coast FilAms are a forgotten demographics as far as media is concerned. The concentration of TV content is mostly on the West Coast where many early Filipino Americans had migrated. With this in mind, a group of professionals is set to launch a reality-magazine format TV show to premiere in The Filipino Channel (TFC) […]
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Like a Phoenix, Jose Llana returns with a new album and a regal lead role in ‘King and I’
By Randy Gener Did you know? Jose Llana — the alluring dynamo who recently wowed Broadway audiences as the King of Siam in Lincoln Center Theater’s Tony Award-winning best-musical revival of “The King and I” — turns 40 years old this month. So far, it looks like a royal turning point of a birthday year […]
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3 Philippine films make the cut in the New York Asian Film Festival
The New York Asian Film Festival – from June 22 to July 9 – gave first glimpse of this year’s lineup featuring cutting-edge themes and a cast of Asia’s hottest stars. From the Philippines come three genre-defying films that explore fatherhood, and what it means to be an adult: Erik Matti’s religious crime drama “Honor […]
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‘Elvis & Nixon:’ It’s all about the badge!
By Cristina DC Pastor Sometime in the Seventies, U.S. politics and pop culture intersected, resulting in one goofy moment in history: President Richard Nixon and Elvis Presley meeting at the White House. This encounter between the 37th president and the King of Rock and Roll was supposed to be a mere five minutes (because even […]
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Never too late, baby, to return to Carole King’s music many decades later
By Rene Pastor & Cristina DC Pastor The line snaked around the Stephen Sondheim Theatre consisting mostly of people of a certain age. We saw some young ones, and they were with what looked like their parents, aunts and uncles. But the vast majority of “Beautiful” watchers belonged to a generation which came of age […]
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The People’s Prince
The death of pop artist Prince opened up a flood of memories of coming of age, watching concerts and listening to music that was fearless as it was artful. Grieving FilAms remember the man and what his music meant to them.