My close-knit college friends were known back then as the BAD Girls --B.A.D. for Beautiful And Daring, though the other 'inside joke' meaning is something I can't print here. I became the 'plus one' ...

Lo’ Waist Gang” was one of my favorite movies as an adolescent in the late ’50s. I was around six years old when I watched it in my hometown’s one and only theater that showed Tagalog movies. It was a ...