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Rude Guerrilla Theater Company presents the World Premiere of playwright Aurelio Locsin’s black comedy HELLTOWN BUFFET as the ninth production in its eleventh season. Can a Filipino-American manager of  Hometown Buffet and his hunky demon seducer fall in love through their real and imagined histories? This dark comedy propels them from Orange County to several [...]

Michael Golamco is a critically acclaimed, emerging young writer. He was selected by the Tribeca Film Festival for the All Access program in both Film and Theater. He was also a Top 50 Project Greenlight screenwriter, and was a top 15 finalist for the ABC/Disney Writing Fellowship. His works garnered rave reviews from critics. Theater [...]

This coming Saturday, August 23th, 2008, East West Players will be having a musical treat for the audience featuring the The Three Filipino Tenors – Antoine Reynaldo Diel, Randy Guiaya, Lito Villareal, with Ethan Le Phong, Kerry K. Carnahan, Maegan McConnell, Jenni Selma, Kathy Villanueva. The show is called, “One Night Only: Divas vs. [...]

BakitWhy | Pilipin@ American Lifestyle is a fresh online community dedicated to uniting Pilipino-Americans and friends globally. Whether it’s connecting to our pamilya back home, or creating discussion with our kaibigan in the states, BakitWhy serves as a complete outlet, forum, and network for all Pilipino-American interests.
BakitWhy asks “why?” in Tagalog and English, languages which [...]

The artists presented are Filipino, Filipino American, American Filipino, scholars of Philippine Studies or Pinoyphiles, marking the growth and development of the Filipino visual arts community; Overmapped is a pause, to look, and take stock of what is happening with young artists, established artists and their career trajectories, with hobbyists who find themselves deep in [...]

Whenever I drive along Temple Street and see the “Historic Filipinotown” sign, I wonder why this is called as such when it is apparent it’s a multi-ethnic area. I attended the Los Angeles Historic Filipinotown Festival 2008 and discovered so much more than I had expected.

I hopped in on the bus tour of the Historic [...]

LOS ANGELES’ 6TH HISTORIC FILIPINOTOWN FESTIVAL
WHEN: SATURDAY, AUG 2ND 2008, 730AM TO 10PM
WHERE: TEMPLE AND WESTLAKE (TWO BLOCKS EAST OF ALVARADO)
ADMISSION: FREE

The creation of FilAm Artists Network blog/directory stems from the fact that there is no Art organization that seems to encompass all the arts across the nation that focus on FilAm artists. Believe me, I’d searched high and low. Maybe that’s one of the reasons there isn’t much visibility among FilAm Artists. And I thought, I can start a dialogue about this to help pave the way in giving more recognition to FilAm artists and show to the world the diverse talents and dispel any negative myths within the Filipino Community.