Dinengdeng and Pinakbet

Dinengdeng & Pinakbet

Friends with Pens Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran Over the years I made it a point to pick up or at least leaf through, books authored by college classmates—some I knew but mostly only passing recollection of a name. For example, I...

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Back in the day … Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran One of my classmates started a Facebook page for our Maui High School class (sometime last century if you want to know). It’s kinda nice to see some vaguely familiar faces— greyer, less...

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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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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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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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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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