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Mabuhay to the 22 at the Paris Olympics!
By Loida Nicolas Lewis PARIS — France just knows how to wow the world with the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics! Every other country that hosted the modern Olympics since its founding in Greece in 1896 held the opening ceremony in a giant stadium. Each country’s athletes marched waving their flags to […]
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‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ are the heart and soul of this action film
By Wendell Gaa “Deadpool & Wolverine” is currently my favorite movie of the year so far, and with good reason. The past few years have been a rather difficult period for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and for Disney as a whole too, with films notably underperforming both at the box office and with audience […]
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‘The Hearing:’ An unpolished film with a timely social justice message
By Joel David The twentieth edition of the Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival actually featured a number of entries that betokened its coming of age, inevitably disappointing certain sectors who would have preferred more of their type of cinema. One could construct a formal spectrum ranging from documentary to mainstream-starred feature and find various netizen voices […]
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FilAm activist from N.J. shot by Israeli Army in the West Bank
Amado Sison, a Filipino American community organizer from New Jersey, was shot by the Israeli army following the violent dispersal of a peaceful demonstration in Beita Village in the West Bank. The incident occurred on August 9, 2024, at approximately 3 p.m. in an olive grove near the village. Sison, using a pseudonym, was struck […]
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Senator Risa Hontiveros on her daughter coming out queer
By Cristina DC Pastor The calm and almost euphoric reaction of Senator Risa Hontiveros to her daughter’s coming out is not the typical response of some Filipina mothers on learning their daughters are gay. In some cases, coming-out stories are tense, dramatic confrontations between parent and child, with words of anger wrapped around feelings of […]
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Mother knew best
By Joel David One of the first things that elderly netizens remarked when news of Lily Monteverde’s death broke out last August 4 was “how fittingly dramatic,” or variations thereof. Her husband, Leonardo “Remy” Monteverde, had died barely a week earlier. Even the later qualification that “Mother” Lily was also in serious intensive-care condition when […]
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Andy Kim: ‘I never intended to be a politician, but President Trump won…’
By Cristina DC Pastor I first met Andy Kim in December when members of the FilAm media were invited to his Meet-and-Greet in Summit, New Jersey. I saw a refreshing persona. A politician who did not have an inflated ego, did not peddle lies, and was not full of antics like some senators and congressmen […]
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Let’s turn ‘bahala na’ into ‘laban na’ for Kamala: FilAm politician
Filipino Americans for Harris (FAFH) held a community event on July 30th to launch the campaign to elect Kamala Harris for president. The event drew over 450 attendees and raised $7,000 in small dollar donations. National Co-Chair Hon. Melissa Ramoso stated, “Our goals are very simple. We are going to elect Vice President Kamala Harris for […]
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Dear JD
By Cristina DC Pastor The “childless cat ladies” you made fun of in your 2021 interview with Tucker Carlson? Some of them are my friends. G is an accomplished Manhattan journalist who works for one of the largest colleges. She married in her mid-40s and so she and her husband are late in the “procreation” […]