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Roi Santos and the foundation of a true makeup artist
By Maricar CP Hampton “Beauty is understanding and accepting who you are including all your imperfections.” With this point of view, Sephora makeup artist Roi Santos, 34, proceeds to do his magic not so much to make women beautiful but to bring out the beauty within. “Artist to the stars” is how Roi is known […]
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Chris Carbonell: The first Filipino Guardian Angel
By Cristina DC Pastor Chris Carbonell, who manages a Filipino restaurant in Queens, is the first Filipino Guardian Angel. Meaning, he is the first Filipino to join the anti-crime organization founded by Curtis Sliwa in 1979 whose avowed mission is to repel crime in New York City subways. Depends on who you ask, the Guardian […]
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FYLPRO looking for new board members, and they can be based in the Philippines
Nominations are now open for individuals willing to serve on the board of the Filipino Young Leaders Program or FYLPRO for 2022. As an international organization, those interested to serve may be based anywhere in the U.S. or in the Philippines, and must have a desire to advance FYLPRO’s mission to strengthen the bridge between […]
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NaFFAA calling on cops to find attacker of Filipino elder
Jose Serra, a 71-year-old Filipino elder, was gruesomely attacked by a man with a knife on November 3, in El Cajon near the city of San Diego in California. Serra miraculously survived the assault and is currently in critical condition and recovering from his injuries at a local hospital. He was on his commute to work […]
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Well-loved Ridgway, PA Mayor Guillermo Udarbe, 81
Doctor Guillermo Udarbe, who was mayor of Ridgway, Pennsylvania for 12 years, died unexpectedly on November 11, according to an obituary announcement. He was 81. He is survived by his wife Gloria Aragones Udarbe of Ridgway, daughters Cherry Pie Udarbe Clark of Fairview, PA and Charina Udarbe Felix of Lutherville, Maryland; five grandchildren Isabella Udarbe […]
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Watsonville riots film provokes difficult questions about race then and today: director
By Cristina DC Pastor Somewhere in California in the 1930s, they had the Watsonville riots. Framed within the current wave of anti-Asian violence, this aggression against Filipino farm workers has been a long-forgotten episode of our painful past in this country. Filmmaker Randal Kamradt, a Filipino American who teaches video production in Fillmore High School […]
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On Global Filipinos: Lee Kiefer: The 1st American to win Olympic Gold in fencing
By Loida Nicolas Lewis When TOFA 2021 (The Outstanding Filipinos in America) introduced Lee Kiefer as the Tokyo Olympic Gold Winner in the esoteric event Individual Foil Fencing — defeating reigning Olympic Champion Russian Inna Deriglazova — the audience of mostly Filipino ancestry at Weill Carnegie Hall gave her the loudest applause. So the question I asked Lee in […]
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Leylah Fernandez: A fresh prodigy in women’s tennis
By D. De La Rosa The cheers for Leylah Annie Fernandez swept the Arthur Ashe Stadium of the U.S. Open tennis tournament near the end of the summer in New York City. It paid tribute to a left-handed, 5-foot 6-inch, 19-year-old phenom who had defeated three top-5 women’s tennis players on her way to the […]
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Jobs all around, but no takers
By Cristina DC Pastor The country is experiencing a historic shortage of labor across the board. Filipino Americans who work in schools and the restaurant industry are seeing a workforce crisis, seemingly another downside to the never-ending pandemic. When businesses closed at the height of the coronavirus outbreak, many workers lost their jobs as businesses shut […]