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Originally published November 29, 2018 Over eight months following the release of her highly praised music video for her song “Us,” rapper Ruby Ibarra releases her long awaited follow-up for her song, “Taking Names.” Featuring fellow rappers Bambu and Nump, the music video marks the second directorial work for Ibarra and is released one day …
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Originally published on May 21, 2018 The Roxie Theater in San Francisco was sold out Saturday night with an anniversary screening/reunion of the quirky, Daly City-shot film, LUMPIA. With the casts of both the original film and its upcoming sequel, LUMPIA WITH A VENGEANCE, in attendance, this special presentation for CAAMFest 36 made for a …
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Originally published on March 8, 2018 Just in time for International Women’s Day, rapper Ruby Ibarra drops her much anticipated music video for her song, “Us.” The track, featuring Rocky Rivera, Klassy, and Faith Santilla, comes off of her 2017 album, CIRCA91. It is an anthem aimed to support and uplift the girls and women …
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Originally published on January 17, 2018 On July 15, 1997, Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace was shot and killed outside his mansion in Miami, Florida at the age of 50, by spree killer Andrew Cunanan. He was the fifth and final victim of the FBI Most Wanted Fugitive, before taking his own life eight days …
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“I now believe that the song was aptly named – this song is not about me, this video is not just for the artists in the song, this entire process and project was for all of us – everyone involved and everyone who watched it and was impacted by it.” -Ruby Ibarra
[Darren] Criss, who is Filipino through his mom, has played a wide variety of roles both for stage and screen; such as Harry Potter in A VERY POTTER MUSICAL, Blaine Anderson in GLEE, and Hedwig in HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH. This will be his first role where he’ll actually be playing someone who is part Asian like him.
Being of Filipino, Puerto Rican, and Jewish descent and growing up in Hawaii, a lot of people often mistook him for being black and white. Living life in the “gray zone” was especially difficult when he was attempting to break out into the music industry, for music executives more often than not were unsure of how to label him.
In all the hype for new doo-wops from the hooligan, it has me thinking back to something that has been bugging me for quite some time; and that is that I can’t seem to find any footage from when he performed at the ISA LA concert in 2009.
I get why my family members would hold such anger. To have your country invaded like that is a scar marked in your memory. At the same time, it’s not right that they held such prejudices as that. You can’t blame a whole race and/or ethnicity for what certain individuals did. I wouldn’t be able to live with myself with such a narrow outlook on the world.
Drifting Back Around 