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Grace Labaguis’s brave new world
By Cristina DC Pastor It was, Grace Hufano Labaguis thought then, a “trial visit,” leaving her two sons in Manila in 2001 to see what the future looked like in the U.S. while her husband was working in a restaurant in Saipan. Then 9/11 happened. “Ako lang mag-isa, everyone was worried about me,” she said. […]
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A year in the life of a community newspaper
By Rene Pastor A year has whipped by, seemingly like a bullet train. Some 365 days ago, we decided to publish a monthly newspaper. It seemed counterintuitive at that time. We had been online for more than seven years when a friend, whose insights we value, suggested that since we’ve been around that long, why […]
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Millennials debut digital talk show ‘Two Besties Together’
YouTube stars launched a digital talk show “Two Besties Together” (TBT) hosted by Filipino-American Thomas Orlina and Hawaii-born Malia Baldovi. The under-15-minute talk show has three segments, “The Topic,” “The Product,” and “The Throwback.” They provide an opportunity for their audience to connect with them visually on screen and communicate with their social media following […]
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FYLPRO fellows, TV execs discuss programming, content in immersion tour
GMA Network in Manila recently hosted an immersion tour for the 2018 Filipino Young Leaders Program (FYLPRO) delegates which consisted of 10 outstanding U.S.-based professionals. The immersion tour, led by GMA’s global arm GMA International, gave the delegates an overview of the network’s programs as well as its contribution to the broadcast industry in the […]
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Diversity Comic Con for creators of color happening on Oct 11
Ramon Gil was just a boy when his Lola Avelina J. Gil, at the time writer and editor at Phoenix Publishing, would use her store credit at Alemar’s to buy him all the comic books he wanted. This cemented his love for comics for the rest of his life. Flash forward years later when the […]
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GMA lifestyle channel celebrates 10th year
GMA’s international lifestyle channel GMA Life TV marks another milestone as it celebrates its 10th anniversary this September by giving Kapuso abroad exciting new treats and programs. First up, GMA Life TV’s ambassador and Asia’s Pop Sweetheart Julie Anne San Jose sings a new rendition of the station ID, “There’s More to Life”, featuring GMA […]
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Amy Goodman’s book on where ‘journalists go where the silence is’
By Julia Lagoc The most insightful, provocative Opinion columns I’ve come across are now anthologized in Amy Goodman’s “Breaking the Sound Barrier.” Enthralling viewpoints from Democracy Now! — a TV, radio, Internet news program — are bound into this book. The revered host of Democracy Now! explains what the title means to her as a […]
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Allie Cuerdo’s favorite Ulam is grandma’s Kare-Kare
By Cristina DC Pastor Kare-Kare is Alexandra Cuerdo’s favorite comfort food. The filmmaker who spoke to almost a dozen chefs and presented their oral history in the food documentary “Ulam: Main Dish” said it’s her grandmother’s Kare-Kare she keeps coming back to. “It’s what I remember growing up, my lola’s Kare- Kare,” said Allie, 28, […]
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Pulitzer and Nobel prize winners among this year’s TOFA honorees
By Cristina DC Pastor A Pulitzer Prize winner and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient are among this year’s distinguished The Outstanding Filipinos in America (TOFA) honorees. Mariel Padilla (Youth category) contributed to The Cincinnati Enquirer’s Pulitzer-Prize winning project, “Seven Days of Heroin,” about the drug epidemic in the Midwest. Vivian Talambiras-Cruz (Community Service) was part […]