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Filipino voice, presence absent in Cesar Chavez film: FANHS
The National Board of the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) in Seattle celebrates the appearance of United Farm Workers (UFW) co-founder Larry Itliong in the Hollywood biopic Cesar Chavez. However, FANHS argues that the film misses an opportunity to offer a nuanced and accurate history of the farmworkers movement that was born of the […]
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PIDCI celebrates 25th year; Grand Marshals pay homage to heroes
Dr. Emilio Quines and his wife Fely, also a doctor, are a private couple not used to the limelight. They are quite uncomfortable being called a ‘power couple’ being this year’s Grand Marshals who will lead a large Philippine Independence Day Parade on Madison Avenue on June 1. So at the recent Grand Marshal Gala […]
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Kinding Sindaw presents Maranao epic in dramatic storytelling
“Pagbabalik: Tracing the Path Home” by Kinding Sindaw, the New York-based southern Philippine performance troupe, entwines a contemporary story of the modern Philippines with a dramatic adaptation of the third chapter of the epic Derangen. The Derangen is a Mindanao epic shared by the Maranao, Maguindanao and Iranun tribes of the southern Philippines which celebrates […]
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Local singers to relive memories of the ‘80s in April 27 OPM concert
Showband singers Arnel Arcedo and Tony Gado will be joining Original Philippine Music (OPM) pioneers Cecile Azarcon and Lorrie Ilustre and pop band Sounds of Manila in a concert at Symphony Space in the Upper West Side on April 27. “OPM babies” of the ‘80s Arnel Arcedo and Tony Gado grew up in the Philippines […]
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Tacloban boy band wins ovation in Haiyan benefit concert
By Elton Lugay Raymart Otic pinched his cheek to make sure he wasn’t dreaming. He and siblings Reno, Ralph and RJ – professionally known as the Reo Brothers Band — had just finished performing the Beatles’s hit “Help” at the Madison Square Garden. Four months ago, they lost their home in Tacloban to typhoon Haiyan […]
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‘Norte,’ a four hour-long ideological tearjerker by Lav Diaz
By Joel David In a keynote lecture at the recently concluded Philippine studies conference in Kyoto, Resil B. Mojares described scholars in the current era as involved in commemorating the output of practitioners in what another scholar, Vicente Rafael, described as the “long 1970s,” referring to the decade-and-a-half of martial law. The description provides a […]
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Fundraiser for Randy Gener goes to Brooklyn
Committed journalism and comedy combine in a March 24 event to raise funds for Nathan Award-winning writer Randy Gener, who is currently recovering from a brutal attack he suffered in January. Police said Gener was assaulted by one Leighton Jennings in the early morning of January 18 following an altercation between Gener and a woman […]
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For Robert Lopez, the road to EGOT was paved at ‘Avenue Q’
By Wendell Gaa After getting together with a few friends at a restaurant bar for a viewing of one of our favorite TV shows “The Walking Dead,” a couple of us decided to stay behind and switch the channel to see the rest of The Oscars ceremony. To our amazement, many of the night’s major […]
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Vintage Manila Sound comes to Manhattan concert hall
Original Philippine Music is the inspiration behind the April 27 concert of Cecile Azarcon and the Sounds of Manila at the Peter Norton Symphony Space at 2537 Broadway and 95th Street. “The concert will be a musical tribute to celebrate composer Cecile Azarcon’s timeless pop songs,” said Grace Labaguis, marketing director of Synergy Productions, which […]