Dinengdeng and Pinakbet

Dinengdeng & Pinakbet

Settlors, Community and Belonging Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran At the year-end Rizal Day commemoration, my mother Lydia Coloma accepted a Maui Filipino Community Council citizenship award on my behalf. By all accounts, she delivered a good speech (check the video on...

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Dinengdeng & Pinakbet

Transitions December means Maui Comic Con as I’m writing this column. So it’s fitting to quote well-regarded graphic novel writer (and Babylon 5 creator) J. Michael Strazynski who noted “The future is always all around us, waiting, in moments of...

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Dinengdeng & Pinakbet

Well, the people have spoken Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran Well, the people have spoken. Locally, Hawai‘i remains deep blue. Democrat Lt. Gov. Josh Green and State Rep. Sylvia Luke easily beat Republicans Duke Aiona (a former Lt. Gov. under the last...

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Dinengdeng & Pinakbet

Prognostications and other such things Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran Governor David Ige proclaimed October 2022 as Civics Awareness Month. The Supreme Court of Hawai‘i created a Commission to Promote and Advance Civic Education (PACE) last year, in part to interest underrepresented...

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Eyeing Hawai‘i’s past monarchy and current government Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran As we drive to church on Kamehameha Ave., my mother complains the candidates who lost in the Primary should take down their yard signs and banners, especially those who posted...

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Koy’s ‘Easter Sunday’: A Review Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran When Jo Koy performed recently at the Castle Theater, I was surprised to learn from my sister the Pinoy comedian skipped his familiar repertoire of Filipino jokes. Instead, he riffed wryly on...

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