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Leila Benitez McCollum re-emerges, wins Empowerment Award
By Cristina DC Pastor She is not a recluse, and neither is she driven to staying private and mysterious. She attends mass at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament on West 71st, hosts family dinners in her Manhattan apartment, and played golf every once in a while. Last year, she made sure to attend a […]
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Candidate Albert Diala is accusing PIDCI of hiding membership list
By Cristina DC Pastor Candidate for PIDCI president Albert Diala is accusing the parade organizing group of blocking access to a list of registered member organizations. “I insist to have a copy,” said Diala, 62, an accountant at Ford Motor Co., who spoke to The FilAm. “We don’t know how many members there are, we […]
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No more pink or blue as parents welcome gender-neutral toys
By Cristina DC Pastor A major department store is moving to whitewash its aisles by removing the color divide between boys’ toys and toys for girls. Blue and pink shelves will be gone and so will references to gender in marketing to children. Some Filipino American parents welcome the idea of not stereotyping, say, dollhouses […]
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Intriguing plot, heart-pounding action in ‘Mission Impossible’
By Wendell Gaa I recently had the joy of taking my parents out to the movies to see the latest installment to Tom Cruise’s popular “Mission Impossible” espionage film series. As I hoped for and expected, the movie was superbly entertaining. When it comes to Tom Cruise, one of Hollywood’s most bankable leading men since […]
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Geena Rocero’s Gender Proud is now both a non-profit and a business entity
By Cristina DC Pastor Gender Proud, the non-profit organization founded by transgender model Geena Rocero in 2014 as a vehicle for her gender marker advocacy, is now also a business entity. Rocero and colleague Allison Hoffman announced the creation of Gender Proud Productions LLC (GPP) as a media production company that may develop products like […]
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Let ‘divorced Catholics who remarry’ return to the sacraments
By Ludy Astraquillo Ongkeko, Ph.D. “Divorced Catholics who remarry, as well as their children, deserve better treatment from the church.” This was heard from Pope Francis himself as he warned pastors against treating those couples as though they were excommunicated. It all goes back to certain practices: Catholic teaching considers divorced Catholics who remarry as […]
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Finding lessons, hilarity in Gene Del Carmen’s collection of short stories
By Maricar CP Hampton For New Jersey accountant Gene Del Carmen, it was his mother’s legacy of being a “great storyteller” that inspired him to write short stories and compile them into the recently published “The Pork Bun Heist and Other Stories.” The collection of nine stories focuses on the possibility of transformation and a […]
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Michigan writer publishes comic books inspired by Philippine folklore
By Cristina DC Pastor Bayani, a boy of 11, is desperately trying to care for his sick father, a fisherman, and keep food on the table for his family. Unfortunately, the sun has been shining down on the islands for the last month and night refuses to fall. The land is growing parched from the […]
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In this Manhattan nursing home, 90% of nurses are Filipinos, says RN exec Florida Lucas
By Cristina DC Pastor Filipinos comprise about 90 percent of nurses at Amsterdam Nursing Home, and if you ask Florida Lucas, the assistant director of nursing, she wouldn’t be surprised if such ratio exists in other nursing facilities in Manhattan as well. “I would say so,” she replied when asked by The FilAm if such […]