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A Port Chester food tour
By Guagua Girl Friendship over Fries When my friend T and I were looking to move closer to our new jobs, we were told that Port Chester was considered the “restaurant capital of Westchester County.” We haven’t had much time to explore, but this weekend T and I joined a food tour, a fundraising to […]
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Lea Salonga unplugged, unstoppable
By Elton Lugay & Cristina DC Pastor At 40, Tony Award winner Lea Salonga is now a wife, parent, and a decidedly accomplished singer-performer. To our surprise, she’s a lot of fun too, and quite politically opinionated. Consider the controversies she dove into when we asked: Where do you stand on the issue of Ferdinand […]
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‘I haven’t met a FilAm bridezilla’
By Cristina DC Pastor A $40,000- to $80,000-wedding is not unusual for a Filipino bride in the U.S., just as a request to keep the mother out is quite common. “Funny,” said event planner Lyna Larcia-Calvario, who has organized hundreds of matrimonials for Filipino families in New York. Along with a reminder for her to […]
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‘Rent’ actress waits on Broadway
By Elton Lugay Francesca Camus said she is lucky to be cast as the lesbian lawyer Joanne Jefferson in “Rent.” The role traditionally defaults to African American women. In the movie version, “Cold Case” actress Tracie Thoms played Joanne. “Joanne’s role typically casts African American women, so for them to cast a Filipino is quite […]
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Coming soon: ‘Sineng Pambansa’ filmfest
A week-long festival of Filipino films is being presented June 17 to 23 at the Producers Club on 354 West 44th Street. The 2011 Sineng Pambansa is organized in partnership with the Film Development Council of the Philippines and the New York Film Festival. Slated for screening are the following films. Click here for a […]
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IN THE MOTHERLAND: The American tour guide who mocked Lapu-Lapu
By Laurel Fantauzzo This week, Laurel Fantauzzo begins a series of essays on the Philippines. She is in the country on a Fulbright scholarship to research her journalism project, “Jolli Meals: The Rise of Filipino Fast Food.” The tour guide felt familiar to me at first. He was Midwestern American and proud of his father, […]
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Youths find role models in family, Bonifacio and Oprah
By Cristina DC Pastor In high school, Precious Marie Sipin was “ashamed” to be a Filipino. At the time, she found herself in the company of the “wrong type” of people — FilAms who were unmotivated, backstabbers, and drug users. “When I was in high school, I felt very judged and criticized by Filipinos whom […]
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McDonald’s looks to Asia for inspiration
By Elton Lugay McDonald’s recently invited journalists and bloggers to its Upper West Side branch to drum up interest in its lineup of healthy meals. The FilAm spoke with Executive Chef Dan Coudreaut who revealed that in his team of 40 people who collaborated on the menu, two were Filipinos. He identified them as Gabby […]
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• Summit on diaspora meets June 18 • Journey of a Brown Girl begins June 19 • Smithsonian opens search for interns
Loida Nicolas Lewis, chairperson of the U.S. Pinoys for Good Governance, invites the community to the Mini-Global Summit in New York: Diaspora to Development. The event will be held June 18, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Lovin’ Life Learning Center on 4 West 43rd Street. Topics up for discussion include Jose Rizal […]