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• Charice: Go orange • Ocean City’s Philippine fair now on its 2nd year
Pop star Charice was in town June 14 to campaign for the color orange. Seriously. She teamed up with Life Savers Gummies to help America choose the next flavor of the ring-shaped gummy candy. The candidates? Orange, blue, raspberry and lemonade. Charice’s bet, orange, is the “social” color, according to feng shui experts. The color […]
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‘I was fine singing, but the harness was too tight’
By Elton Lugay “Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark” was a visual feast, with thrilling acrobatic feats and bigger-than-life moving screens that change images and colors. And who can forget that breathtaking midair battle between Spider-Man and Green Goblin. I had this feeling that, ‘Oh God, I hope the cables are secure enough, and that there […]
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‘Independence Day is not a time machine where you choose any day you like’
By R Sonny Sampayan, USAF-Ret. Several years before my father passed away, he once reminded me that Filipinos used to celebrate July 4th as our independence day. At 12:00 o’clock in the afternoon on Thursday, July 4, 1946, after 48 years of American sovereignty, the United States granted the Philippines its independence. Manuel L. Roxas […]
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A Port Chester food tour
By Guagua Girl Friendship over Fries When my friend T and I were looking to move closer to our new jobs, we were told that Port Chester was considered the “restaurant capital of Westchester County.” We haven’t had much time to explore, but this weekend T and I joined a food tour, a fundraising to […]
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Lea Salonga unplugged, unstoppable
By Elton Lugay & Cristina DC Pastor At 40, Tony Award winner Lea Salonga is now a wife, parent, and a decidedly accomplished singer-performer. To our surprise, she’s a lot of fun too, and quite politically opinionated. Consider the controversies she dove into when we asked: Where do you stand on the issue of Ferdinand […]
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‘I haven’t met a FilAm bridezilla’
By Cristina DC Pastor A $40,000- to $80,000-wedding is not unusual for a Filipino bride in the U.S., just as a request to keep the mother out is quite common. “Funny,” said event planner Lyna Larcia-Calvario, who has organized hundreds of matrimonials for Filipino families in New York. Along with a reminder for her to […]
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‘Rent’ actress waits on Broadway
By Elton Lugay Francesca Camus said she is lucky to be cast as the lesbian lawyer Joanne Jefferson in “Rent.” The role traditionally defaults to African American women. In the movie version, “Cold Case” actress Tracie Thoms played Joanne. “Joanne’s role typically casts African American women, so for them to cast a Filipino is quite […]
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Coming soon: ‘Sineng Pambansa’ filmfest
A week-long festival of Filipino films is being presented June 17 to 23 at the Producers Club on 354 West 44th Street. The 2011 Sineng Pambansa is organized in partnership with the Film Development Council of the Philippines and the New York Film Festival. Slated for screening are the following films. Click here for a […]
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IN THE MOTHERLAND: The American tour guide who mocked Lapu-Lapu
By Laurel Fantauzzo This week, Laurel Fantauzzo begins a series of essays on the Philippines. She is in the country on a Fulbright scholarship to research her journalism project, “Jolli Meals: The Rise of Filipino Fast Food.” The tour guide felt familiar to me at first. He was Midwestern American and proud of his father, […]
