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On Global Filipinos: Filipina wins the Salmagundi Club’s Artists’ Choice Award
By Loida Nicolas Lewis D. Eleinne Basa is the first Filipino American to win the Artists’ Choice Award at the American Masters Show at the Salmagundi Club recently. Founded in 1871, the Salmagundi Club (the word ‘Salmagundi,’ which means a meat salad dish, is believed to be of French origin) has a membership of about […]
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Elaine Ficarra discovers the land of her mother
By Cristina DC Pastor In July this year, Pennsylvania-born Elaine Ficarra joined three other youngsters on a trip to the Philippines. She traveled with Bronx teen Feih Hidalgo, IT student Calvin Santiago from New Hampshire, and Alexandra Brown, a Filipina who lives in Australia. There is a common thread tying Elaine, a 17-year-old singer and […]
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Bima Baje: Stem cells help the body heal itself
By Cristina DC Pastor “How’s your snake oil, honey? Is it really working?” Accountant Bima Baje can afford a joke now as she looks back at a time she was very new in the cell therapy industry. Today, she is one of few Filipino Americans who know their stuff about stem cell therapy. She and […]
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Green Bay Packers rush to raise funds for wildfire victims
By Ludy Astraquillo Ongkeko, Ph.D. Spurred by a crusade to raise funds for victims of the recent California wildfire — dubbed “the nation’s deadliest” — Wisconsin’s Green Bay Packers responded quickly to the need of the hour. Quarterback Aaron Rodgers, a native of Northern California, stated very humbly, that he was donating $1 million to […]
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Cooking while cruising with Chef Nilo Palma
By Wendell Gaa On most ship cruises around the globe, Filipinos almost always constitute a sizeable portion — around 30%-50% — of the cabin crew. They can be the cooks, waiters, customer service representatives, engineers, janitors, and onboard doctors and masseuses. The fact that we are English-speaking, industrious and adaptable to any regional culture is […]
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Paving the way for FilAms to emerge in classical music
Glorious and enchanting classical music will resound when soprano Margarita Gomez Giannelli, bass-baritone Enrico Lagasca, and classical pianist Victor Asuncion perform at the “Arias, Lieder, and Kundiman” concert on January 18 at 7:30 p.m. at the Philippine Center on Fifth Avenue. Margarita is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music in Pennsylvania, which counts […]
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On Global Filipinos: First Filipina elected to Harvard’s Board of Overseers
By Loida Nicolas Lewis Geraldine Acuña Sunshine is the First Filipino American to be elected by some 26,000 Harvard University Alumni to the six-member Board of Overseers, to serve for a six-year term. Next to Harvard Corporation, the Board of Overseers is the second governing body of the Ivy League university to set direction, advice […]
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Lying, passing, hiding: An undocumented immigrant’s life
By Cristina DC Pastor Pulitzer Award-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas remembers writing his first book –“not a memoir” – as he was kicked out of his ‘Frazier-style’ loft in downtown L.A. shortly after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016. The building manager warned him that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) might show up in […]
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Ann Constantino Beck: Forest Hills mom is an Uber driver
By Cristina DC Pastor Two years ago when her husband was laid off, aspiring artist Ann Constantino Beck was thrust – literally — into the driver’s seat. She became an Uber driver, and for several months, was the family’s breadwinner. Ann is among the 14 percent of women across the country who drive for the […]