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• An evening with Lea Salonga • Get Etta outta CHR: Bayan USA • UniPro hosts youth summit June 2-4
Lea Salonga will be back at Café Carlyle in a three-week return engagement June 7 to 25. Best known for her Tony Award winning role in “Miss Saigon,” Lea made her Café Carlyle debut last season. In “Lea Salonga: New York in June,” she will take her audience on a musical tour of her multi-faceted […]
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Happy birthday, Iskwelahang Pilipino
Massachusetts-based Iskwelahang Pilipino (IP), the oldest cultural school for FilAm children on the East Coast, will celebrate its 35th birthday May 29 at The Eleanor Welch Casey Theatre of Regis College in Weston. Organizers said tickets are all sold out, proving the “strong Filipino American community support and following that IP has.” IP began in […]
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• ConGen calls on NYPD chief • Free health screening on May 22 • Concert features guitarist, soprano
Consul General Mario L. de Leon, Jr. paid a courtesy call on New York Police Department Commissioner Raymond Kelly on May 19. De Leon thanked Kelly for the assistance the NYPD has been extending to the Philippine Center and the various events of the Filipino American community, including the annual Independence Day Parade held every […]
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• Feast of the 3 queens • ‘Parol’ festival needs volunteers
The Catholic Action of Mary (CAM) will hold its 33rd Santacruzan and Flores de Mayo in Jersey City on Sunday, May 29. But before that, there will be a Presentation Ball at the Sheraton Hotel in Newark on May 14 to introduce three Reyna Elenas. Touted as the longest running Santacruzan in the Northeast, this […]
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Why I decided to leave New York
By Laurel Fantauzzo Berto is speaking in exclamation points again. He is that kind of man: always some emphasis of joy. We have just ordered pulled pork sandwiches, and the sun in Iowa City seems to be shining specifically for us at this outdoor café, congratulating us for having made the seventeen-hour drive here with […]
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• A boy for Kevin James, wife • FAHSI is Miss America partner • Volunteer for Tagalog language class
“King of Queens” actor Kevin James and his Filipina wife Steffiana de la Cruz welcomed a baby boy April 24, the first son for the couple. Kannon Valentine has two older sisters Sienna-Marie, 6, and Shea Joelle, 4. Kevin and Steffiana, a former model-actress, are both from New York. They married in 2004. A year […]
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‘I couldn’t be Manny Pacquiao, so I joined a band’
By Anna Sian Last February, I was in the midst of editing a proposal for an engineering consulting firm, when the phone at my desk started ringing. I was called into the Human Resources office and promptly laid off. Well, not the worst thing in the world, I thought, it wasn’t really my thing anyway. […]
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The Papaya challenge: Getting the youth to exercise
By Maricar CP Hampton There is life after “Desperate Housewives” and the activist vigor that came with it. Kevin Nadal, who led the 2007 online protest against the program for slurring Philippine medical schools, has taken on another cause: The campaign to educate the community about obesity and depression. TF: How serious is obesity and […]