It’s seeing these conversations play out, feeling the warranted anger towards every perpetrator involved in this case, that I find myself thinking about a fictional male character who is a major advocate for girls and women: Eric Draven from the 1994 film, The Crow.

8th Filipino American International Book Festival will be held on October 17-18, 2026 at the San Franicsco Public Library.

I will be participating in the Filipino American International Book Festival (FilBookFest) again! Sorry it took so long to get around to this, as I only recently got my full schedule figured out. If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, I encourage you to come on through. It's a free event being held at the San Francisco Main Public Library this weekend, Saturday October 17th-Sunday October 18th.

Lauren, Swara, and special guest Neebz of the Salaam Nerds Podcast give a full on SPOILER review for the first three episodes of Avatar: Seven Havens, diving into everything great about the series so ...

It's been a minute since I've written in depth about this project. It's coming along with still quite a ways to go. However, there is just enough created to have something to show how far we've come, and how much more we still have to go.

Bay Area writer Lauren Lola and a new comic book she wrote, Red Roses High, made its debut at the country’s largest Comic-Con gathering ‘San Diego Comic-Con 2026.’ Lola tells Asian Pacific America Wit...

It's been a couple weeks now since San Diego Comic-Con, and our correspondents emerge triumphantly with many tales to tell. Mike, Nikita, and Lauren gather together to discuss their experiences with this year's convention.

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Lauren, Edward, and Swara review and discuss the film Avatar Aang:The Last Airbender, the SDCC Avatar Studios presentation, the new teaser for Avatar: Seven Havens, and the future of Avatar Studios.

After ten years, I am heading back to San Diego Comic-Con, and this time around is already set to be a very different experience.

If my posts from the last eight months are to indicate anything, it's that I've been very busy with multiple projects. I crowdfunded and am in production on "Disarm," and crowdfunded and continuing work on Under the Balete Tree. As if that weren't enough, there's another project that I've written that is getting some hype, and that is Red Roses High

The family of Lyle Prijoles is raising funds to help bring him home to San Diego. Lyle … LawRach Prijoles needs your support for Help Bring Lyle Prijoles Home

In the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender, there are options in fighting called jing, which guide how one directs their energy. Of the 85 of them in existence, neutral jing stands out as a particu…

A series of encounters with folkloric beings help lead the path to overcoming a variety of obstacles.

A series of encounters with folkloric beings help lead the path to overcoming a variety of obstacles.

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Hot Tropiks is excited to feature a conversation with Lauren Lola as our next Bawal Book Club Live! For the month of April, we’ll be focusing on her upcoming graphic novel Under the Balete Tree (NOW L...

A series of encounters with folkloric beings help lead the path to overcoming a variety of obstacles.

Okay, this is coming later than I expected -- almost two weeks after launch, to be precise -- but better late than never, as they say. It's been barely six months since I crowdfunded for my short film, yet here I am again, crowdfunding that is, only this time, for my next book: Under the Balete Tree.

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How the relationship between the creative and their source of inspiration forever changes.

While researching a location for a screenplay set 95 years in the past...

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On November 3, actor Elaine Miles was waiting at a bus stop in Redmond, Washington, when four U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers approached her, demanding to see her ID. Miles,…

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The nominations for the 2026 Grammy Awards were announced last Friday, and the hottest animated film of the year, KPop Demon Hunters, is a five-time contender. Netflix’s most-watched original anima…

On occurrences that have emerged so far while making "Disarm".

Following the Atlanta spa shootings, a young woman struggles with several intersecting identity issues, when a hate crime unfolds on her train ride home. It's a film that brings forward a story center...

I meant to post about this much earlier, but other than it being better late than never, this past month wound up being a lot more than I had anticipated. Time is a-ticking, and I'm in need of help.

Following the Atlanta spa shootings, a young woman struggles with several intersecting identity issues, when a hate crime unfolds on her train ride home. It's a film that brings forward a story center...

Following the Atlanta spa shootings, a young woman struggles with several intersecting identity issues, when a hate crime unfolds on her train ride home. It's a film that brings forward a story center...

A reflection on making a film so far, on the eve of its crowdfunding campaign

On deciding on when an audience is ready for a particular story -- and also when it should be shared regardless.

It’s been 25 years since Wong Kar-wai’s pièce de résistance, In the Mood For Love, premiered in Hong Kong. Set in the early 1960s, it follows two neighbors (Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung) who find o…

It's been nearly two years since the release of Dasig, and for the first time in a hot minute, an event is going to be held for it.