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They came, they ate, they formed a press club
By Elton Lugay Members of the FilAm media gathered September 1 for Max’s Eat All You can Chicken press launch for what promised to be a marathon eating contest. Max’s in Jersey City is slated to launch its EAYCC promo from September 6 to 30 and sort of dared journalists to see how much chicken […]
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Writing for free need not be the future for journalists
By Cristina DC Pastor Founding Editor The FilAm Six months – and more than 40,000 unique views – later, we at The FilAm are ready to talk business. We’re now prepared to take on advertising from people who want their message and products to reach the vast, dynamic network of Filipinos, numbering anywhere from 150,000 […]
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Elevating the conversation on immigration — to comedy
Trust Jose Antonio Vargas to elevate the discussion on immigration by bringing it to political humorist Stephen Colbert. From the first question alone, Colbert could not resist lunging into the Pulitzer Award-winning journalist for being an “illegal alien.” “No, no,” a smiling Vargas protested the use of the term. “I’m an undocumented immigrant.” “Whatever,” Colbert […]
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‘I didn’t expect all this attention’
By Odette Keeley & Anthony Advincula New America Media Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas sits down with NAM to discuss his coming-out as an undocumented immigrant and his plans to use his story to spark an honest conversation about immigration in America. When he was growing up in the Philippines, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose […]
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‘Do you sponsor?’
By Cristina DC Pastor Feet in Two Worlds It’s a question I thought was crude and in your face. But if you’re an undocumented immigrant journalist looking for work, there really is no better way to ask. I’ve been asked this question on occasion in the six years that I was managing editor of a […]
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The resilience of Bamboo Girl: From warrior to healer
The bellicose Bamboo Girl zine editor of the late 1990s has recognizably mellowed. Margarita Alcantara is now a calmer person, an acupuncturist with a private practice and a life she concedes is not as self-obsessed. By Cristina DC Pastor TF: Where is the angry, confrontational Bamboo Girl now? MA: My fire is still there, it’s […]
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Shock, praise over journalist’s immigration tell-all
By Maricar CP Hampton & Cristina DC Pastor Pulitzer Award winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, who confessed to being an undocumented immigrant in a New York Times essay, was at the Philippine Consulate in New York June 22 for a private meeting with immigration lawyers. He or any of the lawyers from Filipino-American Legal and […]
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Writing, theater and always the two shall meet
By Maricar CP Hampton The first Filipino — and first Asian — to win the Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, Randy Gener talks about doors opening to a wind gust of awards, honors and opportunities, including editing a newspaper in the Prague. TF: How has it been for you since winning the Nathan Award in […]
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‘I’m still working on the mom thing’
By Elton Lugay With a new partner, Kristine Johnson continues to anchor the evening news and punch up ratings for CBS 2. TF: What prompted the reshuffle at CBS News? KJ: My former co-anchor Chris Wragge was given an enormous opportunity to host “The Early Show” on CBS. Maurice DuBois was in turn moved from […]