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The day I found a carabao’s tail
By R Sonny Sampayan-Sampayan, USAF Ret. There is one memory that always brings me home to Barrio Santo Nino in Binalonan, Pangasinan. I was born into poverty with a family of seven children of which I was the third. Life was hard and food was hard to come by so we all worked together to […]
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U.S. tells PH: We’re ‘behind you’ in Spratlys dispute
He was crudely booted out of office in 2006 as ambassador to the United States, but the beloved Albert del Rosario returned June 20 to an emotional and rousing welcome from the FilAm community of Metro D.C. “You never left my heart,” the new foreign affairs secretary told the community at a reception held at […]
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A wedding on Times Square
By Cristina DC Pastor While half the world was glued to Westminster Abbey on April 29, a couple from Clifton, New Jersey was having their own royal wedding on Times Square. Tie designer Jesse Chao and his bride Marie Grace Singgo from Iloilo wed around the same time as Prince William and Kate Middleton. They […]
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• Laugh out loud with Fe • ‘Kabalikat’ hails domestic workers pact • Photographers hold exhibit
The Queen of Comedy Cabaret Fe de los Reyes will bring her brand of humor to Queens, performing excerpts from her hit show “Amerika Na” and the cleverly put together, “Fe’s Book.” The musical-comedy show will be held June 26, 7 p.m. at Payag Restaurant in Woodside, Queens. Tickets are $25 and are exclusive of […]
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Shock, praise over journalist’s immigration tell-all
By Maricar CP Hampton & Cristina DC Pastor Pulitzer Award winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, who confessed to being an undocumented immigrant in a New York Times essay, was at the Philippine Consulate in New York June 22 for a private meeting with immigration lawyers. He or any of the lawyers from Filipino-American Legal and […]
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The spy who comes home from the cold
By Cristina DC Pastor The U.S. Department of Justice is preparing to send fugitive Michael Ray Aquino back to the Philippines after he has served most of his 76-month prison term for espionage. The move to extradite Aquino, accused in the 2000 killing of publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and his driver, Emmanuel Corbito, must be […]
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• Charice: Go orange • Ocean City’s Philippine fair now on its 2nd year
Pop star Charice was in town June 14 to campaign for the color orange. Seriously. She teamed up with Life Savers Gummies to help America choose the next flavor of the ring-shaped gummy candy. The candidates? Orange, blue, raspberry and lemonade. Charice’s bet, orange, is the “social” color, according to feng shui experts. The color […]
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‘I was fine singing, but the harness was too tight’
By Elton Lugay “Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark” was a visual feast, with thrilling acrobatic feats and bigger-than-life moving screens that change images and colors. And who can forget that breathtaking midair battle between Spider-Man and Green Goblin. I had this feeling that, ‘Oh God, I hope the cables are secure enough, and that there […]
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‘Independence Day is not a time machine where you choose any day you like’
By R Sonny Sampayan, USAF-Ret. Several years before my father passed away, he once reminded me that Filipinos used to celebrate July 4th as our independence day. At 12:00 o’clock in the afternoon on Thursday, July 4, 1946, after 48 years of American sovereignty, the United States granted the Philippines its independence. Manuel L. Roxas […]