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EVENTS: Rising from Yolanda’s Wrath
MAKILALA TV Tackles Challenges for Yolanda Aftermath By Marivir R. Montebon New York City At the launch party of Makilala (To Know) TV in November, New York Consul General Mario de Leon Jr. was quick to say that Philippine leaders should not politicize (the Yolanda) catastrophe, or it will be catastrophic. De Leon was the […]
Of Yolanda, the Prior Catastrophes, and My Sweet Typhoon Liam
By Joan Ariete New York City In the evening of November 9, the day after Yolanda, the strongest storm recorded in history battered the Philippines, my three-year-old son Liam was excitedly assembling a house, a Lego tower of yellow, red and orange, and assuring himself, “very good.” He would ecstatically say “wow!” every time his […]
Reinterpreting I Love Tacloban
By Merlie Alunan Tacloban, the center of the Philippines, where everyone is just passing through, it may be. But there are many of us who understand better what love of a place means, after the storm surge and the wind had levelled the city and left it in ruins. We find the place in our […]
The Entrepreneurs of Asia in New York
By Marivir R. Montebon In New York, the number of women-owned startups rose to 58% between 1997 and 2010, compared to 50% national figures. The empire state ranks among the Top 10 states for women entrepreneurs. Asian women entrepreneurs, in particular, have shown vigor in the field of business. OSM! features three of these highly […]
Awesome Health Tips
DRINK YOUR WATER By June Pascal Water is the elixir of life, Water is your friend. Drink up, Drink up. Water oh so pure, so pleasurable. Make drinking water a conscious habit. Here’s how. Step 1 Save three of your emptied wine bottles, rinse and dry. Step 2 Fill it up with New York tap […]
Let Us Join This Journey!
By Sylvia Hubilla Austin, Texas “The Journey of a Brown Girl.” That is the title of an upcoming stage production. The title raised my eyebrows and peaked my interest. The use of the color of the skin, stirs some emotion and concern about being politically correct whenever the topic is about race. If it was intentional, […]
Who Will Prosecute My Trafficker?
By Marivir Montebon New York City — The US may be known as the land of the free. But it is also the land of the trafficked persons, a reality which government officials and lawmakers must look into as they cook up an immigration reform law. They could listen to Marilou, and to thousands of […]
Check Bucket List: Lani Misalucha Concert
By Marivir R. Montebon New York City I ecstatically checked one item in my bucket list on October 27, an otherwise chilly autumn day in New York: Watch a Lani Misalucha Concert. Yes, I was in a giggly mode on the NJ Transit bound towards Linden in New Jersey to watch the most seasoned, spectacular […]
NWU Kicks off Writers Workshop this Halloween
By Marivir R. Montebon The National Writers Union New York Chapter formally kicks off its Weekly Writing Workshop on October 31, 2013 with the topic on Writing for Halloween/Horror Stories as its opening salvo. Novelist and short story writer Marc Abbott provides the lecture from 6-8PM at the Conference Room of the NWU – NY office on […]
How’s My Ten Cents Word?
By Marivir R. Montebon New York City While power is at the tip of our fingers in this awesome digital age, the writer in the internet, ironically, still remains a pauper. Although a writer’s value in the industry is key to the industry’s life (for every writer, there are 30 other industry players and workers […]
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