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New Jersey mother tilting at Obamacare windmill; read her story and weep (PART 1)
By Jen Furer My husband and I have four children, ages 13 to 24. Since 1995, we have been paying for a family health insurance plan, and since we have our own business, we were eligible for the Small Business group plan. We’ve always had HMO Plus policy with no deductibles. Every year I took […]
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Local singers to relive memories of the ‘80s in April 27 OPM concert
Showband singers Arnel Arcedo and Tony Gado will be joining Original Philippine Music (OPM) pioneers Cecile Azarcon and Lorrie Ilustre and pop band Sounds of Manila in a concert at Symphony Space in the Upper West Side on April 27. “OPM babies” of the ‘80s Arnel Arcedo and Tony Gado grew up in the Philippines […]
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Mithi Aquino becomes the Ambassador’s wife
By Cristina DC Pastor “Why me?” Mithi Aquino, 36, would ask then-Ambassador to Manila Harry K. Tomas, 57, every time she is wracked by doubts. “Why not?” he replied in his usual curt manner characteristic of long-time diplomats. Three years after the Jolo beauty and the American diplomat from New York met, they got married […]
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Happy 3rd Anniversary to The FilAm: Meet some of the people who read us (aw, shucks, blush!)
By Cristina DC Pastor Last year while crushed in a packed NextDayBetter event, I was introduced to a young man trying to squeeze his way through the crowded room. When he heard the name of my magazine, he screamed. Literally. Loudly. (True story; there are witnsses!) “I love The FilAm!” the man said above the […]
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Tacloban boy band wins ovation in Haiyan benefit concert
By Elton Lugay Raymart Otic pinched his cheek to make sure he wasn’t dreaming. He and siblings Reno, Ralph and RJ – professionally known as the Reo Brothers Band — had just finished performing the Beatles’s hit “Help” at the Madison Square Garden. Four months ago, they lost their home in Tacloban to typhoon Haiyan […]
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Visita Iglesia on April 17, organizers request donations of rosaries, Bibles
The Catholic Fellowship of Young Filipino Professionals is inviting the community to join in the April 17 observance of the Visita Iglesia, a Filipino Lenten tradition. Participants to the Visita Iglesia pray the Stations of the Cross in their visit to seven Manhattan churches. The event begins with Holy Thursday mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral […]
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‘Norte,’ a four hour-long ideological tearjerker by Lav Diaz
By Joel David In a keynote lecture at the recently concluded Philippine studies conference in Kyoto, Resil B. Mojares described scholars in the current era as involved in commemorating the output of practitioners in what another scholar, Vicente Rafael, described as the “long 1970s,” referring to the decade-and-a-half of martial law. The description provides a […]
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The Honor Code and the strange case of PMA cadet Aldrin Jeff Cudia
By Ludy Astraquillo Ongkeko, Ph.D. Until but a few days ago, the Honor Code of the Cadet Corps, Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) was hardly bruited about outside the walls of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) since its existence decades and decades ago. To many Filipinos, it is an unknown set of rules exclusively […]
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Fundraiser for Randy Gener goes to Brooklyn
Committed journalism and comedy combine in a March 24 event to raise funds for Nathan Award-winning writer Randy Gener, who is currently recovering from a brutal attack he suffered in January. Police said Gener was assaulted by one Leighton Jennings in the early morning of January 18 following an altercation between Gener and a woman […]