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Justice Scalia and me: A love story
By David Lat Happy Valentine’s Day. I hope you are spending it with someone you love. I will share with you the tale of the great love of my youth: Justice Antonin Scalia. Until last year, the happiest day of my life was when I found out I would be interviewing with Justice Scalia for […]
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Family of Queens hit-and-run victim Jose Beof Sr. urging witnesses to come forward
By Cristina DC Pastor Five days before turning 79 on February 16, retired merchant marine Jose Beof Sr. was hit by a brown van in front of his house. On his birthday, his family plans an early morning serenade of ‘How Beautiful is the Morning’ by his hospital bed, as doctors mull the likelihood of […]
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A grandfather’s letter to his 13-year-old ‘apo’
Former advertising executive Tony Joaquin of Sacramento, Calif., welcomes his grandson Julian Ismael Joaquin’s transition into adolescence. As he ushers him into this new phase leading into adulthood, Tony is also reminding him to always be respectful of women. A man has a choice, and Tony’s wish is for all young men to be “gentlemen” […]
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Brunei: Not quite tropical paradise, but very cosmopolitan and peaceful
By Wendell Gaa The chill of the winter season provides the perfect alibi to determine one’s next travel destination to revolve around three things: sun, sand and palm trees. Now, if you are willing to expand your tropical traveling tastes a little bit to something other than the Philippines, then the small Southeast Asian nation […]
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FILAMSPEAK: Millennials reflect on race and what it means to be ‘more white than brown’
By Cristina DC Pastor They’re called ‘white Filipinos’ teasingly, sometimes pejoratively, Filipino Americans born to parents where one is Filipino, the other Caucasian. They respond to labels, such as biracial, mixed-race, or ‘halfies.’ Labels don’t bother them. What does is when society uses race to adjust its attitude toward people, and stereotyping becomes its ugly […]
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Mulling Peyton Manning’s future in football: Does age matter?
By Ludy Astraquillo Ongkeko, Ph.D. The latest Super Bowl had just taken place on February 7th. If there is one sport on these shores that commands a veritable following, it is football, as comprehended in the American system. It is far from the ‘football’ nomenclature that continues its significance in other continents observed in Latin […]
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For acoustic artist Joseph Vincent, Karaoke music was the beginning
By Christian Catiis Ever since his appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2010, Joseph Vincent has racked up an impressive resume. An acoustic artist, singer and songwriter, he grew up listening to all types of musical genre — from hip hop to rock. A YouTube sensation with more than 500,000 subscribers to his pop […]
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What the FilAm community needs to know about Multi-level Marketing
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. One can tell just by looking at her that Jen Furer, mother of four, is a fitness enthusiast. Her blog, GottaLoveMom, chronicles her weight-loss […]
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Police baffled in case of missing Seton Hall student: If suicide, where’s the body?
By Cristina DC Pastor John Fernandez, the Seton Hall student who went missing since December 13, 2015, has been the victim of bullying from high school all the way to college, according to his mother Ninia Fernandez. John – also called JP by family and close friends – was reported missing by Patch.com, quoting township […]