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On Global Filipinos: ‘Here Lies Love:’ The FilAms’ ‘Hamilton’
By Loida Nicolas Lewis David Byrne and Fat Boy Slim’s musical “Here Lies Love” makes its Broadway debut presenting the first Filipino story on the Great White Way. It features an all-Filipino cast including stage legend Lea Salonga at The Broadway Theatre on July 20, 2023. The show debuts two first-time Broadway co-producers Don Michael Mendoza and Lora Nicolas […]
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How Nora Galleros contributed to the transformation of PIDCI
By Cristina DC Pastor On a cold and cloudy June 4 Sunday, thousands of Filipinos marched on Madison Avenue to celebrate the 125th Philippine Independence waving their flags and wearing the colors of their islands. The Philippine Independence Day Council, Inc., (PIDC), touted the parade a success with politicians, beauty queens and celebrities leading the […]
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Billy Bustamante: ”Here Lies Love’ does not glorify Imelda Marcos’
By Cristina DC Pastor Billy Bustamante was a little boy growing up in the Washington D.C. area when the People Power revolt erupted in Manila in 1986 and chased the Marcos family, down to their grandchildren, into exile. Today, the 42-year-old theater actor is assistant director of “Here Lies Love,” a much-anticipated Broadway musical ripped […]
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Makilala TV celebrates 10 years as a platform for the FilAm voice
Makilala TV, the first and longest-running Filipino-American TV talk show in the NY Metro area, celebrated its 10th-year anniversary as a platform for showcasing the rich culture, stories, and voices of the Filipino-American community. An intimate reception was held on June 10 at the Sheraton La Guardia in East Flushing, attended by about 50 guests […]
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A Mexican girl, a trans hacker, and a diverse cast of characters in Ramon Gil’s comic books
Ramon Gil’s latest middle grade graphic novel features a diverse cast of characters in terms of ethnicity, gender identity, and neurodiversity. Since 2014, Ramon Gil’s comic stories have featured people of color — often Asian — as lead characters. As an immigrant himself, he has a soft spot for the newcomer or the outsider. “I’ve […]
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‘Across the Spider-Verse:’ Extravagant animation
By Wendell Gaa “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” is not only a great superhero film or a marvelous animated one, it is a cinematic masterpiece period. In my mind the greatest animated story yet about the iconic web-slinging hero to hit the big screen. The sequel to 2018’s “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” the film continues the […]
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Who is Raymundo Mata and what is his role in PHL revolutionary history?
By Allen Gaborro To even begin trying to understand Gina Apostol’s perplexing, historical, and political spectrum of a novel about the Philippines during its pre-turn of the century revolutionary era, “The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata,” a reader has to get out from under the tried and true empirical norms of the classical literary universe […]
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Mental health, STD prevalent among LGBTQ Asians: 2023 Apicha report; Dermatology is an emerging issue
By Glenn Magpantay, Esq. On the cusp of LGBTQ Pride Month and Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Apicha Community Health Center (CHC) unveiled on May 31 the results of its yearlong study to address the health and wellness needs of New York City’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) Asian, Asian American, South Asian, […]
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New York State budget for AAPI communities goes up to $30M
By Marivir Montebon A hallmark in the celebration of the Asian American Pacific Islanders Heritage in the month of May is the significant increase in the New York State Fiscal Year budget for 2023-2024 of $30 million to AAPI communities. The office of Assemblymember Steven Raga, the first Filipino American elected official in New York […]