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Bringing Jose Rizal to 69th Street in Queens
By Cristina DC Pastor The spadework has begun. It may be a matter of time before 69th Street in Queens is renamed in honor of Philippine National Hero Dr. Jose Rizal. This project, spearheaded by the National Federation of Filipino American Associations in New York (NaFFAA NY), was announced at its first conference held at […]
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INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING PROJECT: Gossip as a form of bullying (Part 2)
By Cristina DC Pastor They continue to walk the corridors of every hospital and nursing facility, these doctors with a huge ego and a ‘God Complex.’ Some senior nurses walk in their shadow. “These are doctors who think just because they have many years of education they know everything, and no one can tell them […]
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INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING PROJECT: When the bullies are doctors and senior nurses: How FilAm nurses cope (Part 1)
By Cristina DC Pastor The doctor was performing a delicate surgery when the scrub nurse handed him the wrong instrument. The surgeon was furious and out of irritation pushed the petite Filipino nurse until she fell from her riser. She was new to the hospital. In another incident, a senior nurse in a Manhattan hospital […]
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Filipino Reporter publisher, ex-war correspondent Bert Pelayo, 78
The community grieves the passing of Libertito Pelayo, the editor and publisher of the Filipino Reporter. Established in 1972, the Reporter is a weekly newspaper that has served Filipino Americans in the New York area for more than four decades, an important source of public service information, news and entertainment about Filipinos in the Tri-State. […]
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Pacquiao fan Miles Teller plays a determined underdog in ‘Whiplash’
By Wendell Gaa On Jan. 23, I had the honor to join my fellow co-members of the New York Fil-Am Press Club at the premiere evening release of the film documentary “Manny” at the AMC Times Square theaters in Manhattan. I was impressed and deeply touched by the documentary about the amazing rise of our […]
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Clarisse Pastor-Medina uses coffee as medium to express her Filipino identity
By Cristina DC Pastor Where some of us see nasty ring stains, she sees a sustainable art medium. For seven years now, Batangas-born Clarisse Pastor-Medina (no relation to this writer) has been painting with coffee and staging solo exhibits with nothing more than her large canvases and presumably her Batangas ‘barako.’ “I like the medium,” […]
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No myth here: On Super Bowl Sunday, can domestic violence be far behind?
By Cristina DC Pastor I was dredging my chicken wings in flour when I checked my laptop and noticed what looked like an urgent message that has been sitting on my Facebook screen. “I’m looking for a divorce lawyer, know anyone?” my friend wrote. This friend loves to kid around with me so I thought […]
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‘Kinky Boots:’ It’s about finding the perfect pair of life’s lessons of compassion and acceptance
By Jen Furer For 18 months, my sister (in-law) and I had been planning to see “Kinky Boots” on Broadway. Our plan was to meet in New York on a Wednesday afternoon and purchase the tickets on that day. Last Sunday, while I was shopping for groceries in preparation for the Blizzard of 2015, […]
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SO JANNELLE! For Pacquiao, a legacy beyond the world titles: ‘To be remembered as a true role model’
By Jannelle So All he aspired for was to be a boxing champion in the Philippines. But after two decades of his reign in the ring, Manny Pacquiao has become known far and wide as a world record-holder, the first and only eight-division world champion with an impressive 10 world titles. “I never thought that […]