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The political is personal
By Joel David One curious development, still within the first quarter of the third year of a history-changing global pandemic, is that the audiovisual material which most Filipino netizens are burring over at the moment is expectedly streaming, but it’s neither a film nor a TV series. It’s the latest installment of the decade-plus Adrian […]
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The legend of Ferdinand Marcos began a hundred years ago: journalist Sheila Coronel
Investigative journalist Sheila Coronel delivered a cogent and well-chronicled presentation about Ferdinand Marcos, the former Philippine president and rapacious dictator and father of now presidential aspirant Bongbong Marcos Jr. In Coronel’s lecture — organized by the Adrian E. Cristobal Lecture Series and the Unyon ng Mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas – she reflected on the rise […]
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King vs Lorenzo: Who makes the baddest Burrito?
By Cristina DC Pastor A buddy “competition” between a home cook and a professional chef played out on the YouTube reality show Epicurious. Kuma Inn Chef King Phojanakong and home cook Lorenzo Beronilla staked their professional reputations on making the Breakfast Burrito — using each other’s ingredients. Needless to say, there was a lot of […]
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Making a martyr of Maria Ressa
By Cristina DC Pastor To understand Nobel Prize Laureate Maria Ressa and her tense conflict with Rodrigo Duterte, let’s go back 35 years when the Philippines ousted the Marcoses by People Power in 1986. Maria – born in the Philippines and raised in Tom’s River, New Jersey by her mother and stepfather — returned home […]
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Hazel Sanchez joins PIX11’s Morning News
Award-winning veteran journalist Hazel Sanchez has joined the WPIX-TV (PIX11) television station starting September 20. She is now co-anchor of the Morning News alongside PIX11’s Dan Mannarino. Since 2000, Sanchez has served as an anchor and reporter for WCBS-TV, covering breaking news, politics, city government, crime and a wide variety of features and human interest stories regarding life in the five boroughs and all of their unique […]
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A podcast born during the pandemic to connect Filipinos all over
By Cristina DC Pastor A Document Control Manager and an insurance analyst do not a good comedy pair make. But there is something about the chemistry between Jessy Daing and Jesse ‘Jcas’ Castro that brings out the spontaneity and free-flowing conversation that make their podcast “Over a Glass or Two,” a favorite destination for entertainment […]
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Writing, a passion I never knew I had
By Vicky Potenciano-Vitug When I was a little girl of grade-school age, my father would always ask me to tell him stories of how my day went. My father, who worked in a bank for 40 years, was always interested in the lives of his six children. Always, and with a smile on my face, I […]
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The day Harvard Radio played 11 hours of Filipino music
By Jeromel Dela Rosa Lara I am a Filipino immigrant. I was born, raised, and lived in the Philippines for 11 years. My mother and I arrived here in America in 2011. My mother is a certified nursing assistant (CNA) doing the job of domestic caregiving, which is the arduous and literally back-breaking work that […]
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New ConGen Elmer Cato assumes post amid escalating anti-Asian violence in N.Y.
Three things journalist-turned-diplomat Elmer Cato did when his appointment as Consul General in New York became official on March 30: He visited family and friends in Queens; he rolled up his sleeves and got himself vaccinated; he attended Easter Sunday mass at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer on the Upper East Side. Cato’s assignment […]