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Best of both worlds for Gerard Araw, Wall Street banker and suburban family man
By Cristina DC Pastor Gerard Araw, the relationship manager for Commerzbank, probably speaks for many immigrant professionals who are trying to strike a balance between the traditions they grew up with and the alluring cosmopolitan lifestyle of New York. Gerard, 41, works in Lower Manhattan and goes home to his family in Springfield, New Jersey. […]
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In ‘Batman’ series, the third’s not always a charm
By Daniel de la Rosa In “Batman Begins,” the first in the trilogy, Batman loses his way after the murder of his parents. “Dark Knight,” which followed, was an incandescent elegy to good-versus-evil. “The Dark Knight Rises,” now the third in the series, is very much an echo of “Batman Begins.” Here, I tend to […]
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How did our society produce a James Holmes?
By Tony Joaquin Not difficult really. It is a known fact throughout the shocked world that America has long been a growing war freak from the time they’ve been fighting the native American Indians and seizing their ancestral lands. Another factor is the Second Amendment in the United States Constitution. It is supposed to protect […]
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Remembering Maita Gomez’s political activism, cool humor and cooking
By Cristina DC Pastor “I screamed, I cried,” New York resident Indai Sajor recalled. She was inconsolable for days on hearing her good friend, women’s rights activist Maita Gomez, died July 12 in her sleep. Indai, a gender advisor for the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, met Maita in the 1980s. […]
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He designed Elizabeth Taylor’s jewelry
Reagan Rada, 31, is the technical jewelry designer of Piranesi in New York, the largest Italian jewelry company in the U.S., with a client list including royalties and heads of states. Before Piranesi, he was in an enviable job as director of design at the House of Taylor, a jewelry company owned by the late […]
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Catherine Ricafort embodies heart, resilience as lone woman in ‘Prison Dancer’
Five years after the “Dancing Inmates of Cebu” became a YouTube sensation, the story behind the Filipino dancers moonwalking to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” is now an off-Broadway musical. “Prison Dancer,” which started as a 12-episode web series, features the fictional stories of six maximum-security prisoners, and how their participation in the Cebu Penitentiary rehabilitation program […]
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Jeremy Lin outsmarts Knicks’ Dolan, maneuvers way into $25-M contract
By Alek Bituin I hate playing the race card. It’s a cheap angle to take since writing from that lens elicits such visceral reactions from people. Sometimes, it’s justified. Oftentimes, it’s not. But using race as a central theme to a topic generally distracts the reader from the underlying message. That being said – how […]
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The Dolphy Conundrum
By Joel David An earlier generation of Pinoy media observers would have thought that the death of Dolphy would have left behind the issue of his profligacy: The usual tally of the deceased’s offspring and their corresponding mothers alone would already bring up the issue of his sexual insatiability and the potency of his allegedly […]
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Portrait of the hairstylist as performance artist
By Cristina DC Pastor A typical day for Leslie Ferrer Espinosa would be listening to her clients as they are seated on a chair talking about themselves. See, Leslie is not a psychiatrist. She is a hairstylist and makeup artist but she listens just as attentively as any therapist does, and sometimes she gets to […]