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2 FilAm dancers topbill BalaSole’s 5th anniversary concert
Roberto Villanueva, the Executive & Artistic Director and founder of BalaSole Dance Company, presents the 5th year anniversary and 16th concert season of BalaSole in “Salmagundi,” a new program of solos in a broad range of dance styles, music choices and artistic voices, on July 17 & 18, 8 p.m., at Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 […]
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Facebook feud resurrects Tim Garcia, reveals his new identity as Trans woman ‘Isabel’
By Cristina DC Pastor About 5 years before Jeane Napoles, there was Timothy Mark Garcia, known among Manhattan’s fashion cognoscenti as Tim Garcia, a publicist for designer Marc Jacobs. Tim is the son of former comptroller of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia. The older Garcia now sits in a Philippine […]
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As a gay person, I do not feel less of a parent
By Veana DC Pastor “Love,” and here I quote Ann Landers, “is a friendship that has caught fire.” On the day that the Supreme Court recognized same-sex marriage as a legal right nationwide, many of us in the LGBT community were rampant with joy. I was at work when I heard the news from customers […]
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Stella Abrera joins Misty Copeland as principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre
Filipino American Stella Abrera joins Misty Copeland in making dance history. Both have been promoted to the rank of Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre (ABT) in New York. Also joining the company is FilAm Jeffrey Cirio. The principal dancer with Boston Ballet, will join ABT as a Soloist, it was announced June 30 by […]
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Community at a loss to explain Edmund Silvestre-vs-Filipino Reporter: ‘They were one happy family’
By Cristina DC Pastor The Filipino community was taken aback by reports that Filipino Reporter’s long-time reporter Edmund Silvestre has filed a labor complaint against his former employers. In Case 15 CV 4477 filed June 9, 2015 before the Southern District of New York, Silvestre is “seeking damages for the base salary he should have […]
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All the news that’s fit to edit: A chat with the NYT’s Cielo Buenaventura
By Cristina DC Pastor For journalist Cielo Buenaventura, getting into The New York Times and now holding the title of staff editor for the Culture section, was a combination of “audacious dreaming and dumb luck.” In 1988 while on a scholarship at Ohio State University, one of her professors, a former Times editor, suggested that […]
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Gold exhibit in NYC: Pre-colonial Filipinos were not savages: organizers
By Cristina DC Pastor Once upon a time when the Philippines was just an assortment of scattered islands and each community was ruled by a ‘datu,’ there was evidence suggesting a craftsman way of life for the indigenous people. Using handmade tools, they hunted for food, built dwellings, and fashioned clothing from whatever they could […]
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Serial entrepreneur Mita Quiogue: Finding success one business at a time
By Cristina DC Pastor Burnout and boredom, if used perversely, may appear to be a deadly pair. But to Mita Quiogue, these twin states of mind fueled her desire to come to the U.S. in 2008 and set up an eyelashes and anti-aging business in the heart of New York’s shopping district. She had a […]
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Deliver us from evil: Episcopalian priest shares experience with his ministry of exorcism
By Father Fred Vergara I had a few experiences of exorcisms or deliverance ministry. In the Philippines, I participated in an exorcism rite in one barrio in Pangasinan. An extended family built their house on a former abortion clinic and they would hear infants crying by the wall. After the exorcism, we conducted a requiem […]