Entertainment – David Haldane

April 5, 2026

Filipinos in the Desert: Rising Together in Filipino Town

By David Haldane April 5, 2026 Not a place but a movement. That’s how one of its founders described what appears to be […]

November 24, 2025

Disconnected

By David Haldane Nov. 24, 2025 It feels like I imagine it would to suddenly go deaf or blind. One minute you’re […]

August 18, 2025

Landing With a Thud

By David Haldane August 18, 2025 The silence was deafening. “So,” the master-of-ceremonies asked the audience at my first book launch on Siargao Island, “are […]

June 29, 2025

Walt Disney Lives

By David Haldane June 30, 2025 It’s among the most vivid memories of my childhood. Growing up in Southern California, we lived just 20 minutes […]

June 7, 2025

Rhiza Romero Chick: The Filipino Diva Bringing Joy to Californians

By David Haldane June 8, 2025 It was as if a strange new vibration had entered the room. It swept across the floor and penetrated […]

February 3, 2025

Hitting the Proverbial Jackpot

By David Haldane February 3, 2025 The phone messages always start the same. “Congratulations,” they say, or words to that effect. “Your book […]

August 5, 2024

Diving in the Philippines, One of the World’s Top Spots

By David Haldane Aug. 5, 2024 I used to live underwater. Well, ok, maybe that’s an exaggeration; let’s just say I used to spend my […]

May 19, 2024

The Transformation and Resurrection of Siargao Island

By David Haldane May 19, 2024 It almost seemed like the old days. The days, that is, before Covid and Odette. Tourists from both […]

April 29, 2024

Thai New Year: A Very Wet Welcome

By David Haldane April 29, 2024 The squirting started early. I can’t say we hadn’t been warned. “Don’t be surprised if you get squirted […]

February 19, 2024

The Flop Heard ‘Round the World

By David Haldane Feb. 19, 2024 A Filipino comedian told a joke that flopped. And now the universe is talking about Taylor Swift and […]

December 11, 2023

All-inclusive Miss Universe?

By David Haldane Dec. 11, 2023 A transgender friend said something recently that I’d been thinking but was afraid to say out loud. “Miss […]

December 4, 2023

Roasted Alligator or Fried Rattlesnake?

By David Haldane Dec. 4, 2023 I gave them fair warning. “OK,” I said, facing a bevy of Filipino in-laws, nephews, and nieces, “it’s almost […]