by Malou Liwanag-Aguilar/AJPress
If you can’t understand the title, then probably you’re not one of the hundreds of millions of “texters.”
If you can’t understand the title, then probably you’re not one of the hundreds of millions of “texters.”
Back in the 1990s, I had my first mobile phone. It was a heavy piece of contraption that can [...]
by Joseph Pimentel/AJPress
LAS VEGAS – Three Filipino fighters will be showcased in different bouts in Las Vegas this Saturday, July 26.
FilAm Muay Thai fighters Michael Mananquil and Christine Toledo will co-headline a World Championship Muay Thai event at the Las Vegas Hilton. At the same time, Boxer Bernabe Concepcion will be featured in the undercard [...]
by Gayle Gatchalian/AJPress
Art should grow with you,” declares Mark Slavkin, VP for Education at the Music Center – Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County. He heads the education programs offered by the Music Center that reach about 300 schools yearly. Pushing to bring art to the fore of general education, the music center programs [...]
by Joseph Pimentel/AJPress
When singer Lea Salonga kicked off the first ever Global Pop Series at the Walt Disney Concert Hall two weeks ago, it was a spectacular performance by a great Philippine artist for the Filipino community for many. But for the execs of The Music Center, it was the culmination of a long-awaited experimental [...]
by Cynthia de Castro/AJPress
The Music Center of Los Angeles County is one of America’s three largest performing arts centers and Los Angeles’ premier cultural destination, welcoming over 2 million visitors annually. Centrally located in downtown Los Angeles along Grand Avenue, the Music Center is composed of four venues – Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Dorothy [...]
by Cynthia de Castro/AJPress
TIME Magazine praised it as “perhaps the most impressive display of virtuoso money-raising and civic citizenship in the history of US womanhood.” Newspapers around the world acclaim it as altering the cultural trajectory of Los Angeles. They’re referring to the exemplary efforts of Dorothy Buffum Chandler in giving birth to the Music [...]
by Miko Santos/AJPress
SAN FRANCISCO – More than 25,000 people (and dogs!) marched through Golden Gate Park Sunday, June 20, 2008 in the 22nd annual AIDS Walk San Francisco and helped raise $4.5 million, a few thousand shy of the event’s fundraising record last year.
“AIDS Walk San Francisco has never been so important,” said Mark Cloutier, [...]
SAN FRANCISCO – Last Thursday, July 17, The New York Times published an article, A Filipino Embrace, about NBA and Washington Wizard franchise player, Gilbert Arenas’ recent Adidas tour to the Philippines.
Most of us would think that the article couldn’t really be that significant, with the number of more important issues happening. Also, the Philippines [...]
by Malou Liwanag-Aguilar/AJPress
NEW YORK – Filipino poet, literary critic, short story writer and painter Jose Garcia Villa is the only Asian poet among a group of modern literary giants in 1940’s New York that included E. E. Cummings, Mark Van Doren, W.H. Auden, Tennessee Williams and Gore Vidal. Known as the “Pope of Greenwich Village,” [...]
by Joseph Pimentel/AJPress
TEMECULA, CA – California Highway Patrol officers have identified the driver, who allegedly fled the scene of a hit-and-run crash that left a Filipino family of three dead.
Officials on Monday identified that 30-year-old Chad Isaac Huber allegedly drove his GMC pickup truck on the wrong side of the road before crashing head-on into [...]
