Please mark your calendars! I’m having a book reading / talk / Q&A at Eastwind Books in Berkeley — come over, bring friends, have your book signed! I’ll be talking about my new book, Pinoy Capital: The Filipino Nation in Daly City, out earlier this year from Temple University Press. Here are the details:...
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For those of you in the Bay Area — I have a book talk (more like a short reading plus introduction and Q&A) at SF State this coming Thursday. ———- The Asian American Studies Department Presents: “Pinoy Capital: The Filipino Nation in Daly City” By Dr. Benito M. Vergara Jr. Date:  Thursday, March 12,...
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So this has been one of those great weeks for me: the book finally in my hands, four sweet long days with my little daughter Izzy in Austin, Inauguration Day, and tonight, in an hour or so, the premiere of the fifth season of Lost. Lost (and also The Wire) has been one of...
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Pinoy Capital The Filipino Nation in Daly City Benito M. Vergara, Jr. Home to 33,000 Filipino American residents, Daly City, California, located just outside of San Francisco, has been dubbed “the Pinoy Capital of the United States.” In this fascinating ethnographic study of the lives of Daly City residents, Benito Vergara shows how Daly...
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Every December or January, in a yearly ritual that somehow became more and more of a chore, I do a roundup of my favorite albums I heard throughout the year. Last year’s sorry excuse for a list was the result of writing exhaustion: what else could I really write about Boxer or Sound of...
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My Bloody Valentine was punishingly loud — louder, perhaps, than the SUNN O)))) or Merzbow concerts I’ve attended. This isn’t necessarily a good thing, even if I do enjoy the sensation of my ribcage and my nasal bone rattling the entire length of the concert; inevitably you’ll have to wear earplugs, and if they’re...
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