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Brew the barako before reading ‘The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata’
By Tricia J. Capistrano Brew the Barako. Cue up Google Translate and the Wikipedia entry on Philippine history. Soho Press in New York recently released the U.S. version of The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata by Gina Apostol and like her previously U.S. released work, Insurrecto, the Raymundo Mata book is not bedside reading. Rapt […]
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Maria Banatao: The woman behind the man
By Loida Nicolas Lewis When I texted Maria Banatao that I would like to talk to her in the morning at 11 a.m. New York time – which is 8 a.m. Los Angeles time — she told me that she would prefer to do it three hours later. Why? Because she would be going to […]
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Like the ‘bamboo amid a storm,’ the return of People’s Ball
The People’s Ball, a festive gathering of Filipino Americans in the New York area, returned on August 22 paying tribute to health care professionals as well as economic frontline workers — FilAms and non-Filipinos alike — calling them the community’s Pandemic Vanguards. This is the first time People’s Ball, a companion event to the annual […]
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‘Shang-Chi’ film: A beautiful, poetic story
By Wendell Gaa “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” the latest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is a dazzling triumph of the highest order. As MCU’s first Asian-led feature, this is a movie which happily exceeded my expectations and is truly the superhero genre’s homage to the best of Asian and martial […]
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Pregnant Berniece Bernabe who lives in a basement faces wrath of Hurricane Ida
By Cristina DC Pastor Berniece Bernabe was in the homestretch of her pregnancy – 35 weeks — when Hurricane Ida lashed the Northeast and flooded her basement apartment on Grand Avenue in Queens. “We’re just waiting for the baby then this happened. It was bad,” she said when reached by The FilAm. “Everything was floating […]
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‘Josh doesn’t like asking for money,’ so mom sends an email to his friends
My name is Teresita Price. I’m Josh’s mom. Josh doesn’t like asking for money. So today, I told him I would ask you instead — and explain to you why he’s so deserving of your donation. You always want your children to have more advantages than you had growing up. That was very true with […]
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Writing, a passion I never knew I had
By Vicky Potenciano-Vitug When I was a little girl of grade-school age, my father would always ask me to tell him stories of how my day went. My father, who worked in a bank for 40 years, was always interested in the lives of his six children. Always, and with a smile on my face, I […]
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Figuring out the ‘safest’ way to film during the pandemic
Up-and-coming New York filmmaker Michael Manese gears up to shoot his fourth film tentatively titled “Asian PersuAsian” amid a coronavirus pandemic that has halted production and possibly the film’s release. Manese’s project has an All-Filipino/ FilAm cast, all based in New York and New Jersey. The film is made possible by a grant from the Inwood Art […]
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Liza Ty Beasca: A wrong call on cancer and a NYC teacher’s road to recovery
By Vicky Potenciano-Vitug Liza Ty Beasca was a Special Education Teacher in a Harlem public school. A devoted mentor, she made her classroom a joyful learning place for young children diagnosed with severe disabilities such as autism and Down Syndrome. Her love of teaching came to a disheartening end in 2011 when she was diagnosed […]