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The obscure pop culture enthusiast’s guide for the discerning Asian American in your life (You’re welcome)
By Pamela K. Santos If you’re reading this because you haven’t started your holiday shopping, I have bad news for you. You’re late. Black Friday has come and gone, along with Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. I suspect many of you only found this post after realizing the company holiday party is next week […]
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3 days after ‘Les Miz’ review, I met Anne Hathaway
By Elton Lugay It felt like an out-of-body experience. Not that I’ve had one, but it was weird in a nice kind of way. On November 30th, my review of “Les Miserables” was published in this magazine (“Why ‘Les Miserables’ brought tears to my eyes,” Nov. 30). Three days later I was at the Porter […]
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Why ‘Les Miserables’ brought tears to my eyes
By Elton Lugay Did “Les Miserables” bring tears to my eyes because it is the holidays and I’m missing someone in my life or was Anne Hathaway’s rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream” pure rapture? I kept tossing this in my mind after coming out of the press preview for Victor Hugo’s classic novel on […]
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‘I Do Bidoo Bidoo’ opens in N.Y. Nov. 30
In the tradition of crowd-pleasing comedy musicals like “Mamma Mia” and “Rock of Ages” comes “I Do Bidoo Bidoo,” a blockbuster from the Philippines that celebrates young love, family values, and the hit songs of the Apo Hiking Society. “I Do Bidoo Bidoo” stars the singing superstars Gary Valenciano, Zsa Zsa Padilla, Ogie Alcasid and […]
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Meet New York’s a cappella ‘ambassador’
By Cristina DC Pastor A cappella music has come a long way. It’s no longer the boring, one-dimensional music played on our parents’ LP records. The 15th century choral music, which started in Europe, has adopted some elements of hip hop’s beatboxing and is enjoying a resurgence in campuses across America. It sounds like a […]
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Festival spotlights Filipino films
Film enthusiasts, students and the general public have until November 15th to catch the International Film Festival Manhattan at the Quad Cinemas on 13th Street. Among the selections for this year’s festival is a special spotlight on the Philippines featuring critically-acclaimed independent films. Five feature films will be shown: “Busong” Dir: Auraeus Solito starring Alessandra […]
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High drama and low humor in Ricky Lee’s new fiction about a cross-dressing ‘manananggal’
By Joel David The results of the recently concluded American presidential elections seemed guaranteed to make everyone happy – except for the Republican Party and its now less-than-majority supporters. American conservatives could have spared themselves their historic loss if they had taken the trouble to inspect the goings-on in a country their nation had once […]
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Bayanihan performance helped FilAms cope with aftermath of hurricane: Amb. Cuisia
The world-famous Bayanihan national folk dance company of the Philippines performed at the Jazz at the Lincoln Center on November 1, helping Filipinos cope with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. The performance took place on the same night the lights reopened on Broadway, a sign that New York was slowly picking itself up from the […]
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TOFA’s iPhone moments
Point, click and send: Through these photos, we hope to transport our readers to October 27 at Carnegie Hall when the community honored this year’s batch of Filipino American achievers. Please see preceding article for the complete names of The Twelve Outstanding Filipino Americans in the New York Tri-State. Photos by Rolan Gutierrez and Francois […]