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Sherwin Reyes: Son of a homeless man now runs the NYC.gov website
By Cristina DC Pastor Sometime in the ‘80s, his father was a homeless migrant trying to survive in the subways of New York City. Today, Sherwin Reyes runs the official website NYC.gov as a senior IT engineer. “He was homeless for a while until he found a job and built himself up,” said Sherwin in an interview with […]
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On Global Filipinos: Island doctor Jonas Ebarle: A radiologist in Tortola
By Loida Nicolas Lewis When Lucien Stoutt – who was hired by my late husband as a butler in 1988 and continued to work for me as a house manager, chauffeur and event planner — told me he was getting married in his home country of Tortola, British Virgin Islands, my long-time friend Dr. Angie […]
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Brother Andrew: ‘I go to school, pray, serve the poor, and bake’
By Lynn Alejandrino-Topel “The winner of the Great American Baking Show Holiday Edition is…Brother Andrew!” The announcement was made by Emma “Baby Spice” Bunton and was met with squeals and cheers. A brown-frocked seminarian was handed his cake stand trophy made of glass. Brother Andrew Corriente’s parents and sister came around to give him hugs […]
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Young filmmaker unveils romantic drama ‘Last Party’
Director Julian Carlo Santos’s debut film “Last Party” is coming to New York festivals this summer. A romantic drama about the intertwined stories of three couples during a Christmas party, “Last Party” was helmed by Santos when he was 23 years old. He is now 24. Early reviews have called the film “a magnificent example […]
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Camille de la Cruz: Young singer with the ‘funny genes’
By Cristina DC Pastor Young singer Camille de la Cruz is one of many thousands of theater artists who are currently in a state of hiatus because of the COVID-19 public health pandemic. “Bedwetter,” a musical based on comedian Sarah Silverman’s life as a 10-year-old Jewish girl, has halted production. It was slated to stage at the Linda […]
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Harry Go and his tale of two childhoods
By Cristina DC Pastor In Harry Go’s photographic memory, what he remembers as a little boy growing up in the Philippines are unblurred images of living in a house on a hill, bringing spiders to school, and sitting in his father’s car which was technically an old jeepney painted blue. Harry, 34, a lead producer […]
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Doctor uses comics to raise awareness about the coronavirus pandemic
By Wendell Gaa Dr. Carlo Jose San Juan, a nuclear medicine specialist based in Metro Manila, has been doing his part in spreading awareness of the COVID-19 global epidemic both as a working physician and as a comic book writer. He has utilized his talent to educate the community on COVID-19 through his doctor-themed comic […]
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Why illegal immigrants don’t seek treatment for COVID-19
By Sunita Sohrabji, India-West Immigrant communities fear to seek treatment for COVID-19 because of the new public charge rule that says those who seek any form of federal public aid could be denied permanent status in the U.S. Dr. Daniel Turner-Lloveras of the Harbor UCLA Medical Clinic made this remark at a webinar organized by […]
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Jasmine Ting: The ‘probinsyana’ has come a long way
New York City was but a pipe dream for someone who was raised in the small, northern Philippine city of Tuguegarao. Jasmine Arielle Ting never imagined she’d end up thousands of miles away from her hometown, nor did she ever think she’d be working as a features journalist in the Big Apple at 24. She […]