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Ube Churros, Lumpia, Sisig Tacos: Pusong Filipinx Market Is This Sunday
The showcase of more than two dozen vendors selling food, clothes, jewelry and more is free and open to the public.
August 4, 2021
Spotlighting the passion projects of Hawai‘i’s Filipino-Americans, Pusong Filipinx: The Market happens Aug. 8 at Bishop Museum. The lineup of more than 20 vendors features clothing, jewelry, crafts and of course, food! Admission is free and 10% of proceeds benefit AAPI and Filipino nonprofits.
Pusong Filipinx launched in 2019, went on hiatus last year and returned in June with over a thousand attendees. It’s the creation of Lalaine Ignao and her boyfriend Eric Ganding, millennials who wanted to cultivate a community of peers. The name was inspired by the words on a shirt that Ignao’s grandfather used to wear “Pusong Pinoy,” heart of the Filipino. Ignao and Ganding are among a growing number of creatives trying to define the role of Filipino food and culture in
Olu Obafemi
Icelebrate my bosom friend, brother and soulmate, David Ker, frontline literary scholar, university and public administrator, profound intellectual and fine gentleman, as he turns Seventy today. We may not eat food (the Tiv’s king of cultural cuisines) dressed with bush meat (Nyam toho) today, but I shall drink a little wine to your safe arrival at the portals of the Septuagenarian Season.
I do not find it difficult at all to write about my bosom friend and soulmate, David Iyornongu Ker, at any moment or time and from any perspective of our lives together, which is a year short of five decades today. What may be difficult for me to do is knowing what to leave out, as too private and what is for our ears only in our banter-full, laughter/humour, anecdote-surfeited fraternal lives together. This Tribute will therefore, in delivery strategy, oscillate between formal and direct manner of telling. This is because, it is one relationship that has transcended the confines of
• President John Magufuli of Tanzania
President John Magufuli of Tanzania is known to be one of two heads of state who have boldly expressed reservations about the COVID-19 vaccines produced by pharmaceutical companies.
Burundi, whose President is Evariste Ndayishimiye, is another country that is not bothered about the use of COVID-19 vaccines. The Burundian Ministry of Health has said that the country did not need the vaccines because 95 per cent of patients had recovered from the disease.
President Hassan Rouhani of Iran is also known to have rejected the use of COVID-19 vaccines produced in Western countries such as the United States, describing COVID-19 vaccines developed n those nations as unsafe for use by Iranians.