The New School Students Document Refugee Crisis in Lesvos
A production by Melissa dela Cruz for the New School International Affairs New York – Graduate students of The New School here embarked on a trip to Lesvos to put a human face and voice of the refugee crisis in Europe. Based on authentic interviews, the narratives of refugees should provide the real picture for […]
Catriona Gray’s World Famous Lava Walk in NYC, Captured by Boyet Loverita
New York City – Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray, from the Philippines, is best known for her “lava walk”, with reference to the lava spewing out of the active stratovolcano Mt. Mayon in Albay, considered to be the world’s perfect cone because of its symmetric conical shape. Supermodel Tyra Banks had immediately approved of Cat’s […]
Look Back: Top OSM! Stories in 2018
Political commentaries and social opinion top the reading choice of Fil-Ams, followed by the (usual) great love for entertainment. By Marivir R. Montebon New York – For 2018, readers of the Fil-Am community have sharply become keen with local issues and Philippine politics. In fact, readership on our coverage on the Duterte administration and […]
2018: A Year of Persistence and Many Firsts
By Marivir R. Montebon President, FAPCNY The year 2018 began with feistiness and ended in gratitude and hope. Looking back, the year of the dog in the Chinese calendar, went through as a clearly dangerous one, but it was nevertheless met with grit and solidarity among journalists. The first engagement that the FAPCNY had gone […]
The Filipino-American: Understated Power in One Space and Time
What it means to be Filipino American By Jessica Joyce Jacolbe About the author: Jessica Joyce Jacolbe is the first champion of the 1st Fil-Am History Month Essay Writing Contest initiated by the Fil-Am Press Club of New York. She lives in Brooklyn and navigates through life in NYC as a young professional journalist. […]
To be Filipino-American Means to Understand and Rise from an Oppressive Culture
What it means to be Filipino American By Carlo Ceballos About the author: Carlo Ceballos is the 3rd placer in the 1st Filipino-American History Month Essay Writing Contest which was launched by the Fil-Am Press Club of New York in October 2018. He is community organizer who is on his 3rd year in Sociology […]
On Being Fil-Am: We are a Culture of Kindness, Generosity, and Family
By Shea Formanes About the author: Shea ranks fourth in the 1st FilAm History Month Essay Writing Contest sponsored by the Fil-Am Press Club of New York in October 2018. A senior at Bayside High School in Queens, she is a book worm and loves to write short stories, poems, and essays. This one […]
Coming to Terms with My Being Filipino-American
What it Means to be Filipino-American By Jeanne F. Jalandoni (About the author: Jeanne is the second placer of the 1st Fil-Am History Month Essay Writing which was sponsored by the Fil-Am Press Club of New York in October 2018. Jeanne is a visual artist by profession who obviously can write magnificently as well.) […]
Children’s Orchestra Society Begins 50th Concert Season Anniversary
Music to our ears and hearts New York — The prestigious Children’s Orchestra Society (COS), founded by the late Dr. Hiao Tsiun Ma (father of renowned cellist Yo Yo Ma and Dr. Yeou-Cheng Ma), kicked off their milestone 50th Concert Season Anniversary with the 50th Annual Winter Concert on December 15, 2018 at the Seymour […]
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