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SoCSKSarGen Sisterhood: Mindanao sends its love to the world
By Cristina DC Pastor Lorelie Pacquiao, the mayor of General Santos City, snubbed the 5th Founding Anniversary of SoCSKSarGen USA, Inc., and the commemoration of the 5th anniversary of the signing ceremony celebrating the Sisterhood relationship between Jersey City and her home city of GenSan. The mayor also failed to come to another momentous sisterhood […]
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Who will be the next PIDCI president? Oct 7 election will decide
By Cristina DC Pastor Three community leaders are vying for the position of president of the Philippine Independence Day Council, Inc., one of the largest non-profit organizations in the FilAm community of New York. PIDCI is the organization that mounts the elaborate Philippine Independence Day parade on Madison Avenue, complete with marching bands, a street […]
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Lawyer and suits creative Nikki Agravante
Trial lawyer Nikki Agravante is often teased for heading into her “second shift” after coming home from work at her 9-to-5. That “second shift” is the long hours at night, on weekends, and early mornings, which she spends running her women’s suit and workwear brand, Alpha Brava, and balancing the many hats of a founder […]
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D.C. community serenades veterans with ‘Dahil Sa Iyo’
Before ending “An Evening of Opera and Jazz,” tenor Allan Palacios Chan and soprano Justine Moral sang “Dahil Sa Iyo” (“Because of You”) before an enchanted audience of 50 guests. They listened for an hour with rapt attention, even as a steady falling rain tried to steal the show. “We want to dedicate this song to our […]
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SOHO filmfest partners with GIGIL for marketing campaign
GIGIL NYC partners with the SOHO International Film Festival to promote it, celebrating the cutting-edge technologies of the digital world while honoring traditional forms of storytelling. GIGIL NYC is the U.S. office of GIGIL, an independent ad agency from the Philippines that achieved global recognition when Ad Age named it International Small Agency of the […]
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Community Op-Ed: Outdoor dining is here to stay
By Mayor Eric Adams This past week we made it official: outdoor dining is here to stay. New Yorkers were hungry for an outdoor dining program that was cleaner, safer, and healthier. And by signing a new bill to bring al fresco dining to all five boroughs, we’ve delivered for them. Our new outdoor dining program, “Dining […]
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The beauty and the builder
By Cristina DC Pastor During the pandemic, the Philippine Independence Day Council, Inc. (PIDCI) was led for one year by Rely Manacay, a mild-mannered man with an eager-beaver smile. The year was 2020. Rely, 63, from Cagayan de Oro City was elected president of the organization that mounts the annual Philippine Independence Day Parade on […]
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From one Barbie Girl to another
By Tracy Dizon It had been almost a year. Yes. I have been anticipating this movie for a long while… I knew since then that this is going to be HUGE! As an artist, I think I have this “Instinctive Spider-Sense” of trends and forecasting those hints of this phenomenon! The Zeitgeist had been leading to this Pink Revolution […]
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Nanding Mendez: The improbable journey (From Caloocan egg farm and Makati ad agency to New York holdings)
By Len Manansala Not many native-born Americans who dared to dream big have actually made it in New York, the United States’ financial, media and cultural capital. If the odds for success in the Big Apple are low for immigrants, the chances for immigrants-of-color to succeed in the fiercely competitive city are close to zero. […]