Filipino

Roslynn Alba Cobarrubias, a media entrepreneur, radio DJ and music promoter who advocated for Filipino American artists and was instrumental in growing the MySpace Music platform, died Sunday evening, according to family members. Cobarrubias died in her hometown of Walnut, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s office, which has yet to determine a cause of death pending further tests. She was 43.“She was passionate and dedicated to the Filipino American community worldwide, and would spend both…

Screenshot: GizmodoHundreds of thousands of Maryland vehicles are unknowingly a mobile advertisement for a Filipino casino after a license plate URL recently began redirecting to the gambling hall.Caleb McLaughlin Wants to Play Static ShockVice reports that in 2012, Maryland released a new license plate to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. That license plate was apparently the default license plate for Maryland cars between 2012 and 2016, and featured a URL at the bottom to www.starspangled200.org.…

Actress Vanessa Hudgens heads to the Philippines to explore her family history as the star of a new travel documentary. The film will capture Hudgens’ first trip to her mother’s country of birth and will explore her close relationship with her family and her personal journey as an American-born semi-Filipino woman who has become one of the world’s most recognizable stars. The project will begin filming later this month in the Philippine cities of Palawan and Manila. Hudgens is accompanied on the journey and in the…

Image: Epicmedia/Courtesy of Sundance InstituteThe only non-English language film in the Midnight section of this year’s 2023 Sundance Film Festival, In My Mother’s Skin is a gut-wrenching horror story about a girl placed in a desperate situation who makes a choice she quickly regrets. It takes place in the Philippines near the end of World War II, but its themes transcend the specificity of its setting.With an opening scene that appears to depict some sort of cannibal zombie monster devouring its prey—it’s dark, but you…

Rescuers recovering debris, which the Philippine Space Agency said has markings of the Long March 5B Chinese rocket that was launched on July 24, after it was found in waters off Mamburao, Occidental Mindoro province, Philippines, on Aug. 2, 2022.Photo: Philippine Coast Guard (AP)According to Philippines military officials, China’s coast guard forcibly blocked a Philippine naval boat on Sunday as it was towing suspected rocket debris from the South China Sea to the Philippine-occupied Thitu island, the Associated Press…

By Jocelyn Noveck | Associated Press A boisterous extended clan gathers for a family holiday, launching the requisite arguments, hurt feelings, grudges, inside jokes, laughter, love, reconciliation and lots of eating, plus maybe a car chase. So far, so familiar. What’s different about ” Easter Sunday,” a joyful if overly broad family dramedy starring comedian Jo Koy, is that this extended clan is a Filipino American family and the cast is almost all Filipino, with a few familiar actors finally getting cast as Filipino…

It’s usually better to be honest about your feelings, but leaving someone on ‘read’ could come with added consequences. Image: Gabriel Bouys (Getty Images)Dating these days feels impossible, ask anyone, and breaking up is so hard for some that “ghosting”—ignoring someone’s calls and texts when you’ve lost interest—has become the norm. But a politician in the Philippines is trying to make the act of ghosting an “emotional offense.” Sorry fellow young adults, our days of ignoring our problems until they go away might be…

Ghosting can hurt, for sure. When someone suddenly cuts off contact, doesn’t show up at a date or just unmatches on one of those many dating apps, it sucks. One Filipino lawmaker is trying to make it stop, which could be a tall order. Arnolfo Teves Jr., a member of the Philippine House of Representatives, said ghosting was "a form of emotional cruelty and should be punished as an emotional offense." The bill — yes there’s proposed legislation — doesn't offer specific penalties, but Teves suggested in an interview that…

A lawmaker wants to punish people for , or abruptly cutting off communications with someone without explaining why. Arnolfo Teves Jr., a member of the Philippine House of Representatives, accompanying his bill that ghosting "can be likened to a form of emotional cruelty and should be punished as an emotional offense." Teves referred to studies that indicate social rejection activates the same neural pathways as physical pain. He argued that “ghosting is a form of spite that develops feelings of rejection and neglect” and…