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Watchdogging the Filipino American Community: An Investigative Reporting Project
THE FILAM online magazine takes reporting to the next level: an Investigative Reporting Project for the Filipino American community in New York area. The following crowdfunding campaign is live until July 21, 2014 on Indiegogo. Why I am asking for your support After three years, THE FILAM would like to take its reporting to the […]
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Finding spiritual solace by the Western Wall, Israel’s most sacred site
By Wendell Gaa As a high school student in the summer of 1993, I took my first trip to Europe, and it was in Rome, Italy where I had a chance to meet then-Philippine Ambassador to Israel, the late Amante Manzano. A very humble diplomat with a genial demeanor, Ambassador Manzano encouraged me to visit […]
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Pianist Rowena Arrieta returns to concert stage Sept. 20th
After a long hiatus, Rowena Arrieta is going back on stage for a comeback concert on September 20 at 8 p.m. at the Merkin Concert Hall on West 67th Street, according to Philippine Pearl LLC. The award-winning pianist, noted by The New York Times for her “fevered, demonic intensity” on the keyboard, is said to […]
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The mainstream press will not tell the immigrants’ stories: Ippies Awards speakers
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas called on the mainstream media to tell more of the stories of the country’s immigrant population. At the same time, he urged anew The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and other newspapers to drop the use of the word “illegal” in their reporting of immigrants who […]
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Consider yourself charmed as Pinoys with British accent conquer ‘Oliver!’
By Elton Lugay Ten Filipino American actors give life to the restaging of “Oliver!,” the musical reinterpretation of Charles Dickens’s classic novel about an orphan with frisky hands. Eleven-year-old Bonale Zohn Fambrini plays the lead role of Oliver, a young pickpocket, in this National Asian Artists Project’s (NAAP) production featuring an all-Asian cast. “Oliver!” is […]
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Maj. Gen. Tony Taguba: An officer and a gentleman of a certain age
By Cristina DC Pastor The last we heard of Army Major General Antonio ‘Tony’ Taguba was at the height of the Abu Ghraib torture scandal in 2004. He was the pride of the Filipino American community then. A Philippine-born general entrusted with a huge, patriotic responsibility to investigate alleged military abuses at Abu Ghraib prison. […]
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Filipinos love their Madison Avenue parade!
By Elton Lugay Year after year, the June Philippine Independence Day Parade on Madison Avenue exudes an air of anticipation, excitement and spectacle. This year is no different. There’s Miss World Megan Young leading the celebrity herd, a mix of personalities representing showbiz, sports and government: Black Eyed Peas’ vocalist apl.de.ap, Judge Lorna Schofield, Senator […]
