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Lito Katigbak’s romance with journalism: It’s the chase…and the telephone
By Cristina DC Pastor “It’s probably the telephone,” winced journalist Lito Katigbak with a slight tilt of his head, letting his eyes wander as if searching for the right words to complete his thought. I tried to finish it for him. I didn’t like that I was doing it to a man who needed no […]
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Digesting the art of Manuel Ocampo
By Oscar A. Laluyan The Filipino diet is the best and worst. It is a mix of everything fried, super sweet, and all the calories crammed in every bite. It’s a miracle when you don’t get indigestion with every Filipino meal. So when I got wind of this show entitled, “The View Through the Bull […]
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Kabang: The face of heroism
By Federico A. Espiritu Kabang, the snout-less street dog from the Philippines, stands to spend a wintry Christmas in America, as she undergoes a series of facial surgeries in a California hospital. She lost nearly half her face while saving two Zamboanga girls from a motorcycle accident last year. The headline-grabbing incident caught the attention […]
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The Filipino Reporter celebrates 40th year with anniversary gala
By Elton Lugay “Anniversaries afford us a clear-eyed view for stock-taking. Not so much on delving past mistakes (there are a few) but more so on what needs to be done to make ourselves better than we had been.” With these words, Filipino Reporter publisher Bert Pelayo welcomed his newspaper’s 300-plus well-wishers on its 40th […]
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Amb. Cuisia reminds U.S. to act on plight of 24K veterans
As the country commemorates Veterans Day, Ambassador Jose L. Cuisia, Jr. paid tribute to Filipino and American veterans and expressed hope the U.S. would act soon on the plight of more than 24,000 Filipino veterans who were disqualified from the Filipino Veterans Equity Compensation Fund program. “With the elections over, we are hoping that the […]
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Kosherfest expo to showcase banana chips, coco jam from the Philippines
Philippine food companies will be participating for the first time in Kosherfest 2012, the world’s largest kosher-certified products trade show to be held November 13 and 14 at Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, New Jersey. At least five companies will debut their products before top kosher supermarkets, restaurant and food service buyers, said Philippine Agriculture […]
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Festival spotlights Filipino films
Film enthusiasts, students and the general public have until November 15th to catch the International Film Festival Manhattan at the Quad Cinemas on 13th Street. Among the selections for this year’s festival is a special spotlight on the Philippines featuring critically-acclaimed independent films. Five feature films will be shown: “Busong” Dir: Auraeus Solito starring Alessandra […]
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Analyze him: Barack Obama called ‘narcissistic’ in new book
‘Change We Deserve’ By Luz Martin, MD Tate Publishing November 2012 Philippine-born psychiatrist and neurologist Luz M. Martin has published a book released in time for the Nov. 6 elections. “Change We Deserve” is an indictment of President Barack Obama’s policies as well as his personality. The author discuses Obama’s “defense mechanisms, his narcissism, his […]
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High drama and low humor in Ricky Lee’s new fiction about a cross-dressing ‘manananggal’
By Joel David The results of the recently concluded American presidential elections seemed guaranteed to make everyone happy – except for the Republican Party and its now less-than-majority supporters. American conservatives could have spared themselves their historic loss if they had taken the trouble to inspect the goings-on in a country their nation had once […]