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Springtime unveiling of Historic Filipinotown Eastern Gateway
“After many years, countless meetings, and a lot of blood, sweat, and tears, I’m proud to share that the Historic Filipinotown Eastern Gateway will be installed and unveiled this spring,” said Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell, who represents Historic Filipinotown on the Los Angeles City Council. “This project has been a labor of love by so many […]
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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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Asian women on how to move beyond hate attacks
By Jenny Manrique Asian American women are experiencing a fresh wave of violent, hate-related attacks. According to the web portal Stop AAPI Hate, since March 2020, there have been over 10,000 attacks, 16 percent of which have been physically violent. Elders were the targets in the majority of incidents. A poll commissioned by The National Asian […]
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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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How Overseas Filipinos can meaningfully participate in elections: Explain why you left the country
By Andy Bautista Over the past several decades, the contributions of Overseas Filipinos (OFs) have anchored the Philippine economy and fitted a financial life jacket to many families in the motherland. But why have OFs not been able to translate that economic clout into a political force for good during an election? According to a […]
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PFAY: Young Jersey FilAms carve out their own safe space
By Cristina DC Pastor Lauren Lalicon threw herself into PFAY – or the Professional Filipino American Youth — in 2017 without much of a plan or a second thought. The following year, she began working for the office of Tammy Murphy, the First Lady of New Jersey, as a policy director. Then, she got engaged. […]
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An honor society nurse named Marvellous
Marvellous Undag, LPN of Worcester, Massachusetts will be inducted into the National Technical Honor Society (NTHS) at a ceremony to be held in the Spring. Undag, who comes from San Carlos City, Negros Occidental, is a student of Bay Path Practical Nursing Academy in Charlton. The honor society “celebrates the accomplishments of career and technical […]
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Playing God
The FilAm Editorial We would very much prefer that in principle, a hospital or a doctor should not play God. But there is this man from Boston, whose resistance to vaccination left the hospital with no choice. Reports ABC News: “DJ Ferguson, who was diagnosed with arrhythmia four years ago, was admitted to Brigham and […]
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2 films win praise, awards at Sundance filmfest
In a historic first for the Philippine film industry, two Filipino films received praise and won awards at the recently concluded 2022 Sundance Film Festival, the largest independent film festival in the United States. Consul General in San Francisco Neil Frank Ferrer congratulated the filmmakers behind “Leonor Will Never Die” and “The Headhunter’s Daughter”, as […]