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Loving

Gretheline Ramos-Bolandrina — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:41:38 +0000

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday’s Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I [...]

Bossa Nova Queen Sitti Navarro under the Moon at Max’s Puente Hills

Jay Fermin — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:07:02 +0000

Photos by Jay Fermin. All rights reserved. Philippine bossa nova queen Sitti Navarro, who have been creating waves worldwide with her sultry and cool rendition of Bossa Nova songs (her CDs hitting the charts), is currently here in Los Angeles and will be having a series of shows in other US [...]

Kicking back with Padyak

Hecky Villanueva — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:32:43 +0000

Padyak bikes What is a creative solution to society’s problems? VirtualSalt’s Robert Harris lists the elegant evaluation criteria, summarized as SENC. It should be SUCCESSFUL in solving the problem, overcomes constraints and is acceptable to users or beneficiaries. It is EFFECTIVE in that it is practical, economical, and reliable. It is NEW in that it is [...]

South China Sea Tinderbox

Perry Diaz — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:12:55 +0000

In recent months, the oft-forgotten and misunderstood Spratly islands have taken center stage in a world of diminishing oil reserves and spiraling cost of oil. Why not? In my article, “The Spratly Betrayal (March 14, 2008),” I mentioned that it was estimated that there are about three trillion cubic feet of oil in the area. [...]

EWP Continues 43rd Theater Season With Mix of Bruce Lee, Mahjong, and Reincarnation

Maria Maria — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:10:17 +0000

East West Players 43rd Theater Season East West Players’ (EWP) 43rd Anniversary Season continues with the Los Angeles premiere of a play that is based on a best selling book turned into a major motion picture and two world premiers: BE LIKE WATER, by Dan Kwong, THE JOY LUCK CLUB by Susan Kim, based on the [...]

New Book on Good English Usage Goes Off the Press

Maria Maria — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:20:12 +0000

A new book on English usage by National Book Award-winning author Jose Carillo, “The 10 Most Annoying English Grammar Errors,” went off the press recently along with the second updated edition of his award-winning and bestselling first book, “English Plain and Simple: No-Nonsense Ways to Learn Today’s Global Language.” Carillo’s new 122-page book consists of incisive, [...]

Movie Review: ‘The Sensei’ Delivers a Wake-Up Punch Against Hate

Jay Fermin — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:25:47 +0000

Hollywood — Fil-Am Director Diana Lee Inosanto had a very important message that need to be expressed strongly in today’s postmodern world when we caught up with her. She was at the red-carpet opening of the 24th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival that ran May 1-8, 2008 at the Directors Guild of America [...]