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The neon signs that once illuminated Hong Kong have mostly gone dark, but Jive Lau is preserving the craft of neon making with his ambitious designs and sculptures.
Dragon Ball Super is currently still on hiatus even as the series prepares to celebrate the manga’s 10th anniversary, but the ...
A talented Genshin Impact artist shows a concept in which they transformed the fan-favorite Sangonomiya Kokomi into a dragon.
The winner of NPR’s 2025 Tiny Desk Contest is the Bay Area’s own Ruby Ibarra. A research scientist and fiercely poetic lyricist raised in San Lorenzo, Ibarra raps in English alongside the Filipino ...
Ruby Ibarra's 'Bakunawa' has her rapping in Tagalog, Bisaya, and English backed by the super astig all-woman band of Pinay Voltron ...
With the force of a rising tide and the pulse of ancestral memory, Ruby Ibarra’s Bakunawa has not only won the 2025 NPR Tiny Desk Contest—it has reshaped the cultural conversation around ...
What does that mean? IBARRA: So the Bakunawa is actually a direct reference of a mythological creature based in Philippine mythology. It's about a dragon who swallows the moon. (SOUNDBITE OF RUBY ...
Tagalog and Bisaya), and tells the Filipino folklore story of the Bakunawa dragon who swallows the moon. It's also inspired by the birth of Ibarra's first child. "This song interprets the story as ...