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FilAms enthralled as presidential campaign comes to town
By Cristina DC Pastor More than 200 people packed the Kalayaan Hall of the Philippine Center on March 30 to listen to representatives discuss their presidential candidates’ proposals to fight corruption, address criminality, and introduce social reforms. Management consultant Jesse Arteche argued that a vote for Jojo Binay is the “solution” to the corruption and […]
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FilAm mom’s birthday letter to her son in the Philippines: ‘Our distance I carry with a heavy heart’
By Laura Garcia, RN My dearest son, Images of you flashed through my mind as I reminisce the days and months I carried you. I could still remember your first kick inside my belly. I wasn’t even sure if it was a kick or a punch, it was that intense! I knew then you were […]
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Twin brothers indicted in duplicate hit-and-run charges
Two Long Island brothers may go down in New York State history as twins indicted in identical crimes. In October 2013, Benedict Bacayon, a technology professional from West Babylon, was arrested for “fleeing the scene” of a hit-and-run offense while he was driving his 2006 Mercedes Benz CL500. He is in his 30s. Just recently […]
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Cannabis dinners: Getting high on a full course meal
By Cristina Dc Pastor There are two ways to enjoy cannabis, declared restaurateur and Filipino food innovator Nicole Ponseca: One is to smoke it, the other to make it part of food, which means consuming it as soup, meat entree or dessert. With that eye opener, Nicole explained to The FilAm the novel ways cannabis […]
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Ambassador Willy Gaa remembered in touching memorial service
“During the summer of 2015, when my Dad visited New York for his medical treatment, I’ve seen how he had lost a lot of weight and how much agony he was going through having to walk with a cane because of his severe back pain. At the time, he was undergoing radiation treatment for his […]
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FilAms who live in affordable housing: It’s literally ‘winning a lottery’
By Cristina DC Pastor This article was written as part of the Business Reporting Fellowship of the Center for Community and Ethnic Media and funded by a grant from News Corp. For many years, “home” for Jocelyn Bernal Ochoa was her mother’s basement in Queens. There, she settled nicely when she was an unmarried accounting […]
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In a city where I am now able to speak freely
By Jeanette Bocobo Marco Now that I have been in America in general and New York City specifically for four months, I have an opportunity to compare life here to the past 15 years I spent in the United Arab Emirates. As you may guess, when I first arrived in New York City there was […]
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Rocky Gathercole’s avant-garde allure: Gold standard
By Lindy Rosales The Angel Orensanz Foundation Museum in the Lower East Side was packed, the crowd that had gathered for New York Fashion Week was hip and mostly young. Rocky Gathercole, at one time a Dubai-based designer, was the last show for the night. His striking collection of apparel and accessories in soft to […]
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Why Duterte appears to be the ‘man on horseback’
By Jen Furer Philippine voters seemed angrier now than before I left the country more than two decades ago. They are demanding drastic change in their government. In my recent travels to Hong Kong. Singapore and the Philippines, concern about the country’s progress was on the minds of the people I spoke with: the cab […]