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Consular officials visit Rhode Island; meet with Newport mayor, FilAm community
Consul General Theresa Dizon-de Vega met with Mayor Henry Winthrop of Newport City in Rhode Island on August 24, and thanked him for the support of the local government for the growing Filipino-American community in the area. Rhode Island is home to an estimated 4,000 FilAms. Dizon-De Vega noted the success of Newport City as […]
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Of PIDCI candidates for president, 1 supports investigation into missing funds
By Cristina DC Pastor Two community leaders have confirmed their candidacies for president of the Philippine Independence Day Council, Inc. (PIDCI), the organization that mounts the flamboyant Independence Day Parade held yearly on Madison Avenue. They are retired public school teacher Olivia David and media and public relations practitioner Tambi Wycoco. Long-time PIDCI officer Antero […]
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How colonial mentality became our Stockholm Syndrome
By Metty Vargas-Pellicer It’s always an ordeal to make a trip home to the Philippines. The 14-hour trans-Pacific flight and another four hours in the air if you’re coming from the U.S. East Coast seem interminable. I didn’t know why I was making this trip again after just two years. Alone on the beach with […]
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PACCAL founder Linda Mayo among AAPI community heroes
AARP is proud to announce the winners of its 2nd Asian American and Pacific Islander Community Hero Awards. Dilafroz Nargis Ahmed of India Home, Shongchai Hang of South East Asian Mutual Assistance Associations Coalition, and Linda Mayo of the Pan-American Concerned Citizens Action League are being acknowledged for their leadership of non-profit organizations serving AAPIs […]
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Independence Day Parade: Beauty queens on floats, toddlers on strollers, and a swinging Teddy Boy Locsin
By Lindy Rosales It seemed everyone who is Filipino American was on Madison Avenue on June 4 for the Philippine Independence Day Parade. The nurses, the teachers, the beauty queens, the singers, the Masons, frat men, comedians, babies on strollers, the Ivatans, the photographers, the Duterte diehards, FilAms who love Marawi, government executives, the badminton […]
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MoMA features Philippine cinema from June 1 to 25
MoMA presents a survey of Philippine film from around 2000 to the present, a period known as the Third Golden Age of Philippine cinema (following the first golden age, in the 1950s, and the second, from the 1970s to the early 1980s). The Philippines’ current wave of sustained creativity is unusual in its diversity of […]
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The master-maid relationship happens in some Philippine families
By Tiara Camille Teruel They were the unsung heroes of our household. The protectors of our children and the sounding boards of our parents. They woke us up in the morning, made us food, bathed and dressed us and got us to school every day. They cleaned our homes, watered our gardens, bought our groceries, […]
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Ma-Yi: 28 years later, a bumper crop of Asian American playwrights
By Cristina DC Pastor It began in the basement of a Catholic church. Twenty-eight years later, the Filipino-founded Ma-Yi Theater Company is a flourishing and ethnically diverse organization that has earned esteem and acclaim for its steadfast promotion of Asian American theater. “Twenty-eight years ago, we couldn’t find an Asian American writer,” said founder and […]
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The story of FAHSI and its visionary co-founder Jean Raymundo Lobell
By Cristina DC Pastor Jean Lobell is not your standard FilAm community leader. She is hardly ever around, meaning not so much in the public eye. If she is, it’s because the organization she co-founded, FAHSI, is lending support or leading awareness to a cause –immigration issues, senior or youth services, college access, or women’s […]