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New Longganisa varieties and shrimp-free Siomai in your Asian grocery stores
Don’t be surprised to find new products in your Asian grocery freezer: Sweet Garlic Longganisa, Sweet Hamonado Longganisa, Lucban Longganisa, and the all-new Pork Siomai without seafood. Ramar Foods Corporation, known for their “authentic Filipino flavors,” has announced the new offerings under the Magnolia brand in the fourth quarter of 2023. “These offerings come […]
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NaFFAA’s Greg Macabenta, 84
By Jon Melegrito It’s Saturday night, live, in the Springfield home of Ben and Gloria Caoile. The place is boisterous with raucous laughter and endless chatter. Feasting on crabs, ‘lechon,’ ‘pancit’ and ‘adobo,’ a rowdy bunch of revelers has converged in this quiet neighborhood, bent on letting their hair down. Leading the charge is 69-year-old […]
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‘The Continental:’ Expect much action and John Wick-type violence
By Wendell Gaa “Guns. Lots of guns…” These now iconic words uttered by the antihero John Wick — portrayed by Keanu Reeves — which have since entered the pop cultural lexicon are exactly what you will hear again in the opening episode of “The Continental,” a crime action mini-series which serves as a prequel to […]
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2 N.Y. bills seek to address social media’s addictive influence on children
Multiple studies have shown that social media can cause a wide range of negative mental health effects for children and young adults. Addictive feeds, which are designed to harness personal data to serve users content to keep them on the platform for as long as possible, have increased the addictive nature of social media platforms […]
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Young raver Alex Fox throws all-night parties in empty warehouses
By Cristina DC Pastor Alex Fox, at 23, throws mammoth dance parties in repurposed warehouses. To be accurate, he is CEO of a company that organizes rave parties lasting midnight to morning with DJs mixing music to keep thousands of partygoers glued to the dancefloor. The first rave he organized in July this year had […]
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General Manager Eric Bustamante: ‘PNB is like home’
By Maricar CP Hampton When Eric Bustamante accepted the job of general manager of Philippine National Bank New York branch, he was not quite sure what to expect as he was out of the banking circle for a long time since migrating to the United States in 2012. But PNB has a proud heritage of […]
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SoCSKSarGen Sisterhood: Mindanao sends its love to the world
By Cristina DC Pastor Lorelie Pacquiao, the mayor of General Santos City, snubbed the 5th Founding Anniversary of SoCSKSarGen USA, Inc., and the commemoration of the 5th anniversary of the signing ceremony celebrating the Sisterhood relationship between Jersey City and her home city of GenSan. The mayor also failed to come to another momentous sisterhood […]
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Apl.de.Ap is post-show DJ on Oct 12 ‘Here Lies Love’
As part of the recently announced People Power Disco Hour series of post-show DJ performances inside Club Millennium at the Broadway Theatre (1681 Broadway at 53rd Street), multi-Grammy Award winner and “Here Lies Love”co-producer Apl.de.Ap of Black Eyed Peas will spin a post-show DJ set next Thursday, October 12 immediately following that evening’s 7 p.m. performance of the new musical from David Byrne and Fatboy Slim. Apl.de.Ap said, […]
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An extravaganza of performing arts on Oct 10 World Mental Health Day
The International Mental Health Foundation is thrilled to announce its official launch on World Mental Health Day. With a mission of bringing awareness to mental health and disabilities through the performing arts, IMHF is having a live in-person and online streaming extravaganza on October 10th, 9:30 p.m. from the Triad Theatre on 158 W. 72nd […]