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Youngest community leader takes the reins of decades-old Santacruzan tradition
By Cristina DC Pastor At the fragile age of 20, Federico ‘Freddy’ Burke became the executive chairman of the Santacruzan Festival, continuing a 44-year tradition started by the elders of Jersey City and the friends of his parents. “I volunteered to become the executive chairman of the Santacruzan and Flores de Mayo of Manila Avenue […]
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Fil-Irish artist Julie Ann Earls makes a #Metoo film
Filipino-Irish actor Julie Ann Earls is doing a film inspired by the MeToo movement. It shines a light on the dating culture and asks the question whether there will come a time when men will no longer assume a woman cannot fight back. In her maiden short “Alpha,” Julie Ann is the writer, the producer […]
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The future looks bright for these all-American Pinays
Scholars. Athletes. Artists. Whether in academia, athletics, or the arts, this future generation of Filipina Americans are ever to excel. These five amazing Pinays are freshmen at top-ranked private high schools and highly regarded Catholic high schools in New Jersey continuing to represent well the FilAm community in all their endeavors. This quintet graduated from […]
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A FilAm gala at The Plaza
By Lindy Rosales Filipinos love a good party. Especially if that party meant dressing up in traffic-stopping Ternos and Barongs and the venue was a hotel known to be frequented by the moneyed and the mighty. On October 17, some 300 Filipino Americans trekked to the grand ballroom of The Plaza on Fifth Avenue for […]
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Yazmin Wilkinson: A girl with a happy heart
By Vicky Vitug Five-year-old Yazmin Wilkinson, a beautiful Filipino-Belgian girl was named a top model at Belgium Kids Academy. At age 1, she was learning alphabet and numbers from her Filipino mother Diana. The girl who speaks three languages — Dutch, English and Filipino — is now learning to speak French, too. Yazmin hasn’t always been this lively and confident girl. […]
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Harvard Square welcomes 1st FilAm festival in celebration of FAHM
The first-ever Filipino American Festival in Harvard Square was held on October 9 at Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The event was held in celebration of Filipino American History Month and organized by the Harvard Square Philippine American Alliance (HSPAA). The event was held as part of the Harvard Square Business Association’s 43rd Annual Oktoberfest […]
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Young people, minorities report biggest losses in crypto scams
By Jenny Manrique The promise of hefty returns is what initially drew Jeffrey Vaulx, a second-grade special ed teacher in Memphis, Tennessee to go in on a cryptocurrency investment opportunity introduced to him by a Facebook friend. Vaulx would soon discover that he had been taken by a scheme that data from the Federal Trade […]
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Imee Marcos returns to NYC after 36 years in hush-hush event
By Cristina DC Pastor The so-called “Super ate ng pangulo” walked into the Philippine Center the evening of September 30, stepping into the consulate building again after 36 years from the time the Marcos family was chased into exile in 1986. “Lumang luma na itong Philippine Center,” Senator Imee Romualdez Marcos began, speaking before an […]
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‘Golden Years’ photo exhibit on martial law opens in NYC
Fresh from a successful one-month run in Miami, Florida, a photography exhibit on martial law in the Philippines opens on October 15 & 16 at Bliss on Bliss Arts Project in Sunnyside, Queens. Titled Golden Years: Weighing Philippine Martial Law 1972-1981, the exhibit showcases around 90 vintage photographs which appeared in various American newspapers during […]
