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Remembering how it all started: Acquired Immunity Disease Syndrome (AIDS) Walk Los Angeles
By Yolanda G. Mationg (Editor’s Note: AIDS Walk LA culminated on October 23 with more than $82 million raised since 1985) A little more than three decades ago, the very first AIDS Walk Los Angeles took place in 1985. Organizers of that initial Walk were in great hopes to raise approximately $100,000. Thankfully, with more […]
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Ryan Cayabyab and singers bring 100 years of Philippine Music to Los Angeles
By Cecile C. Ochoa Northridge, CA – The capacity-filled concert hall of Plaza Del Sol Performing Arts at Cal State University in Northridge (CSUN) welcomed the popular Filipino musician and composer Ryan Cayabyab and his singers ( RCS) to several standing ovations Sunday October 23. With no fanfare or stage pomp Mr. C, as he […]
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What motivate 500 Fil Am bikers to gather for ‘Bikerdahan 2016′
By Peter Lacson “There is no problem big enough a tankful of gas and a sunny day can’t solve”. – Steve McQueen Los Angeles — The 8th Annual Bikerdahan is set for September 9 to 11, 2016 at Lake Don Pedro in La Grange, California. This year’s 3-day outdoor Fil-Am biker assembly will be hosted […]
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The Filharmonic and Harana headline the Summer Opening of the renovated Ford Amphitheater
By Cecile C. Ochoa Los Angeles —The $66 million renovated John Anson Ford Amphitheater along Cahuenga Pass opened its doors this month featuring selected performances including the internationally-renowned groups of The Filharmonic and Harana Men’s Choir. Set in a 32-acre Los Angeles County Regional Park which is located across the Hollywood Bowl along the historic […]
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Comedian Rex Navaratte headlines ‘Comedy Store’ fundraiser for SIPA
By Cecile C. Ochoa Hollywood, CA – A good mix of Filipino American generations filled to capacity the famous Comedy Store on Sunset boulevard this month June 15 as they welcome Rex Navarette and his comic friends to one of the best entertainment hubs. Billed as “Laughs for SIPA,” the special event was earmarked to […]
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Centennial celebration of the life of novelist artist NVM Gonzalez
Los Angeles – Colleagues and friends will assemble May 21, 2016 Saturday at the Echo Park Branch Library from 2:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. to remember Filipino writer Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzalez (NVM for short) on the centenary of his birth. NVM was born in Romblon, Philippines on September 8, 1916 and he passed away […]
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Of May day, elections and patriotism: a Fil Am perspective
By Carlene Sobrino Bonnivier of The FILAMLA May Day, 1971, near DuPont Circle, Washington, DC. (I hadn’t gone to Woodstock in 1969. I was not a Hippie, though I did go to the Washington Mall to celebrate the first official Earth Day. A week or two later I returned to the Mall, joining thousands of […]
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Fourth Plaridel toasts writers in the U.S.
Special to TheFILAMLA TheFILAMLA editor and Inquirer.net writer Cecile Caguingin Ochoa, won Plaridel’s Award in “Best In-Depth/ Story held at the Fort McKinley Restaurant in South San Francisco. Ochoa joined other winners of the Fourth Plaridel Awards, Excellence in Journalism. The biggest winner of the evening was Asian Journal, based in Los Angeles, California and […]
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Lifestyle: Fil-Am defense lawyer of a ‘superstar’ counts her way to success
By Claire Navarro Espina (Editor’s Note: Five years ago Claire Navarro Espina, owner of the Tarzana-based law firm Edelberg and Espina Law, represented Philippines’ superstar Nora Aunor in a much publicized criminal lawsuit filed in Los Angeles for alleged possession of a controlled substance found in her luggage at the Los Angeles Airport. The judge […]