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Thank you, more please
By Jean Charisse A. Arboleda Alright, so we have established the fact that I can be slow. I just realized after three years that the failure of my marriage has prepared me for life in the mean, gritty, and unsympathetic New York City. I never would have lasted this long here had I not made […]
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‘Singgalot’ travels to New York, seeks volunteers
Stony Brook University will house the traveling exhibit “Singgalot — The Ties that Bind: Filipinos in America from Colonial Subjects to Citizens,” from February 12 to April 22. “Singgalot” details the rich history of more than 2.7 million Filipinos in America from the early pioneers who settled in the bayous and marshes of Louisiana in […]
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Mamma Mia! There’s a Filipina in my play
By Cristina DC Pastor What a difference six years makes. In 2006, my family watched “Mamma Mia” and enjoyed every musical minute of ABBA’s songs. Over the years that friends would come visit New York and ask what Broadway show to take in, I would suggest this delightful pop culture theater. For the fifth time […]
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PH television and a sitcom writer named Beer
By Tony Joaquin It was at the start of the ‘60s right after I returned from a one-year fellowship in Toronto, Canada when I got to meet Virgilio “Beer” Flores. He was a department head at the CBN offices in the old CBN building on Aduana Street in Intramuros. This was years before ABS-CBN became […]
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Should Filipino veterans receive U.S. military honors?
On December 15, 2011 a bill was filed in the U.S. Congress seeking to grant the prestigious Congressional Gold Medal to American and Filipino troops who defended Bataan during World War II. S.2004 filed by Senator Tom Udall seeks to award “a single gold medal” to the troops from the United States and the Philippines […]
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Rob Schneider sitcom dripping with jokes about immigrants
By Cristina DC Pastor Anyone who’s seen the premiere of “Rob” will tell you it’s Charlie Sheen, George Lopez and “Monk” rolled into one sitcom. Rob Schneider plays a sex-forward, OCD bachelor who marries into a large Mexican family. The Latino anxiety that the CBS show would reinforce stereotypes about Mexican immigrants came to pass: […]
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Park Avenue company expands in Manila
EXLService, a New York-based provider of outsourcing services for Fortune 1000 companies, is expanding its operations in the Philippines. From more than 1,500 professionals, the Park Avenue-headquartered company is expected to create an additional 1,000 “high-level jobs” in its pioneer site in Manila, according to a press statement. “(This) is a manifestation of the renewed […]
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Tim Tebow, the American Pilipino
By A. Mabini Without fail, I find myself in a debate, often heated, when I declare Tebow’s American Pilipino identity. The opposing thought always lacks a solid basis on why Tebow should not be labeled American Pilipino. I just get the sense that it is just impossible to believe that someone as white as […]
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Prostitution is not legal in the PH, Mr. Douglas Allen
We may have missed it because of the holiday hoopla and the circus of an Iowa caucus, but somewhere in upstate New York, an American man was saying things guaranteed to infuriate and shock many of us. “Prostitution is a licensed activity in the Philippines.” The statement – utterly false to begin with — came […]
