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You’re not lost, just back where you started
By Rene Pastor In a way, I felt like the Tom Hanks character Chuck Noland in “Cast Away.” He clicks the lights on and off in the hotel room while sprawled on the floor beside the bed, reassuring himself that he is back among the living after spending years stranded in the middle of the […]
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Hail The FilAm (on its 5th year). May it live forever!
By Cristina DC Pastor On the Ides of March when Julius Caesar was assassinated, Rome was thrown into the chaos of a civil war. The FilAm, which is celebrating its fifth year on March 15, is nowhere close to that dire day in Roman history. The only thing The FilAm shares with the great Caesar […]
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5 hard lessons for comic book creators: ‘Comic Cons can be a drain on the wallet’
By Ramon Gil They say we are in a Golden Age for comic books. With all the movies and strides in technology and diversity within the industry, I believe that’s true. It’s also true for a select few creators who are getting their just rewards and recognition from fans and peers. But for the vast […]
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Tony Taguba, Bruce Lee among 2016 Asian Hall of Famers
The Robert Chinn Foundation will induct four honorees to the 2016 Asian Hall of Fame on May 14 at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel in Seattle. They are television journalist Connie Chung, martial artist Bruce Lee, retired Major General Antonio Taguba of the U.S. Army, and Olympic Gold Medalist in figure skating Kristi Yamaguchi. The Asian […]
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BuzzFeed editor Matt Ortile: ‘I write about being an immigrant, being gay, being young’
By Christian Catiis Matt Ortile, the Philippine-born editor of BuzzFeed Philippines, is by now a resident of Brooklyn. He went to Ateneo de Manila University until Grade 5. From Manila, he and his mother moved to Las Vegas where he went to middle school and high school. His stepdad eventually joined them from Manila. Matt […]
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Artist-writer Randy Gener receives award for ‘meritorious community service’
Randy Gener, the prominent editor-writer-artist, who has been published in The New York Times, Village Voice, and American Theatre magazine, has earned a New York’s Nubian Union Legend Award at a “Chasing Stars” Holiday Gala in Greenwich Village. The Nubian Union Legend award was presented to Gener and other honorees for “outstanding leadership and meritorious […]
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Fil-Am Press Club elects officers; Ricky Rillera is new president
The Filipino American Press Club of New York, Inc. has a new set of officers led by Ricky Rillera of the Philippine Daily Mirror, who was voted president for 2016-2018. Also elected during the club’s December 2 meeting were Cristina DC Pastor of The FilAm online magazine and MAKILALA TV as vice president; Momar Visaya […]
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Charo Santos-Concio: She came, took the stage, captivated the community
By Cristina DC Pastor She delivered her speech entirely in Tagalog. Her voice was gentle, her demeanor graceful. But ABS-CBN President and CEO Charo Santos Concio spoke powerfully when she urged Filipinos in the U.S. to continue to assert their “ethnic pride” and their sense of “pagka-Pilipino.” It is “easy to get lost, to be […]
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Rommy and Beth: A love story like no other and it bloomed in NYC
By Cristina DC Pastor How often does it happen that while writing his memoir, an author takes a coincidental detour and writes someone else’s life story? It happened to broadcast journalist David Hyatt. He was nine chapters into his memoir as a foreign correspondent in Southeast Asia for Voice of America when his book took […]