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‘We are a diamond in the rough’
By Elton Lugay Everyone was there: Hollywood actors, Philippine stars, beauty queens, politicians and doctors. It’s no different from a typical barrio fiesta back home where the cabeza de barangay and the parish priest are honored guests. At Philippine Fiesta’s Empowerment Awards ball on August 17, New Jersey State Senator Robert Gordon and New York […]
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Dalaga is one busy Lady
August is a pretty busy month for Dalaga. From August 1 to 31, the Filipino-owned Dalaga boutique – with stores in Brooklyn and Soho – is the featured window display at the Philippine Center on Fifth Avenue. And on August 14, sisters and owners Mary and Michelle Mangiliman will be featured in the TLC show […]
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Filipinos in ‘Bourne Legacy:’ Very patient, always punctual
By Elton Lugay Who coulda known? That just days after he rented the “Bourne Trilogy” on Netflix, Luis Pedron would get a casting call for him to appear in “The Bourne Legacy.” Luis would get to play two roles, that of an airline passenger and a factory supervisor. “I believe in the Law of Attraction,” […]
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The leaner, bolder brotherhood of Deep Foundation
By Cristina DC Pastor Has it been 11 years? To be exact, 11 years, two albums, four members less and countless mixtapes. The hip hop trio Deep Foundation is still writing songs about identity and the Filipino immigrant struggle. “Children of the Sun” is a groundbreaking single; in it, the group transmutes Heber Bartolome’s “Tayo’y […]
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In ‘Batman’ series, the third’s not always a charm
By Daniel de la Rosa In “Batman Begins,” the first in the trilogy, Batman loses his way after the murder of his parents. “Dark Knight,” which followed, was an incandescent elegy to good-versus-evil. “The Dark Knight Rises,” now the third in the series, is very much an echo of “Batman Begins.” Here, I tend to […]
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He designed Elizabeth Taylor’s jewelry
Reagan Rada, 31, is the technical jewelry designer of Piranesi in New York, the largest Italian jewelry company in the U.S., with a client list including royalties and heads of states. Before Piranesi, he was in an enviable job as director of design at the House of Taylor, a jewelry company owned by the late […]
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Catherine Ricafort embodies heart, resilience as lone woman in ‘Prison Dancer’
Five years after the “Dancing Inmates of Cebu” became a YouTube sensation, the story behind the Filipino dancers moonwalking to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” is now an off-Broadway musical. “Prison Dancer,” which started as a 12-episode web series, features the fictional stories of six maximum-security prisoners, and how their participation in the Cebu Penitentiary rehabilitation program […]
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The Dolphy Conundrum
By Joel David An earlier generation of Pinoy media observers would have thought that the death of Dolphy would have left behind the issue of his profligacy: The usual tally of the deceased’s offspring and their corresponding mothers alone would already bring up the issue of his sexual insatiability and the potency of his allegedly […]
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Obama nominee, NYU dean, autism advocate among this year’s TOFA-NY nominees
By Cristina DC Pastor The Outstanding Filipino Americans in New York has opened the Facebook voting for this year’s search for exemplary Filipinos. Among the notables in the list are Lorna Schofield, President Obama’s nominee for the position of federal district court judge for the Southern District of New York; NYU Dean for Science Michael […]