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Happy Valentine’s Day – OSM! and Issues & Inspiration!
New York – We greet our readers and viewers Happy Valentine’s Day 2021! Love never goes out of style. Thank you for reading and viewing OSM! and Issues & Inspiration all these years! (Featured photo: Red orange autumn sun off the Hudson River by photographer Carla L. Mayol) ADS
U.P. Naming Mahal: A Valentine Special
New York – The UP Alumni Association in America, Inc. (UPAAA) and the UP Alumni Association New Jersey Chapter, Inc. (UPAA NJ) are cosponsoring an evening of music, fellowship and fun. Dubbed “U.P. Naming Mahal: A Valentine Special”, this virtual event will be held on Friday, February 12, 2021, at 8:00 to 9:30 o’clock pm […]
Not love, actually
By Jim Kreidler Consumer Education Specialist, Federal Trade Commission Valentine’s Day is this weekend, so over the next three days, we’re talking about romance scams. Lots of people have profiles on dating apps to meet someone — maybe even more so in these virtual times. And many people have built successful relationships from an online […]
Authentic Filipino food: Amazing Grace Resto replaces the old Krystal
By Marivir R. Montebon New York – The Amazing Grace Restaurant is the newest addition to the array of Filipino eateries of Little Manila on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens where most Filipinos in New York live. Opened in November 2019, just four months before the lockdown, it has survived the onslaught of the pandemic with […]
Adjunct teachers seek relief from lack of tenure, benefits to ensure quality of US college education
We are not demanding six-figure salaries, universal tenure, small teaching loads, and frequent paid research leave for adjunct faculty. Instead, we advocate reducing the burden of tuition by reprioritizing institutional budgets so they’re distributed to faculty, TAs, support staff, and working students—not property, coaches, senior administrators’ salaries, or other elements not directly related to education. By […]
Issues & Inspiration features NYC Media & Entertainment Commissioner Anne del Castillo
New York – On January 30 Saturday, digital show Issues & Inspiration will feature Anne del Castillo who currently serves as the Commissioner of the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME). The show is aired live on Facebook and Youtube at 7PM EST. A native New Yorker, del Castillo has more than 25 years […]
Mayor Arvin Amatorio: Leadership has no political color, you lead from the heart and listen
By Marivir R. Montebon New York – Philipine-born Bergenfield (pop. 27,373) Mayor Arvin Amatorio may well be called a pandemic mayor. As a first-termer, his administration had been fighting to keep Bergenfield up and alive in the midst of the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic. The second Filipino American (Robert Rivas was the first FilAm […]
Sinulog: A Cebuano dance of faith more than ever in these hard times
By Marivir R. Montebon New York – It’s January and for Cebuanos all over the world, it is time to dance to the beat of the Sinulog! You can’t break a 500-year-old tradition even when you are not home. In New York, Connecticut, and Perth, Visayan immigrants celebrated under strict pandemic protocols. Sinulog is a […]
OSM! Online Magazine now has 6.6M pages read and 700K readers reached
New York – The online digital magazine OSM! www.justcliqit.com, now its 9th year, has 6,641,632 pages read and 718,793 readers worldwide as of December 2020, and growing! Women and youth (aged 18 to 85) comprise the majority of its stable of readers. Founded by the mother-daughter team Marivir Montebon and the late Leani Alnica Auxilio, […]
I found my new love in the time of the coronavirus
2020 Yearender (Last of two parts) Editor’s Note By Marivir R. Montebon Dear 2020, Thankfully, my uncle and two aunts survived covid19 during spring. Witnessing their experiences remotely confirmed everything that the legitimate news organizations reported. We have an invisible enemy in our midst. The virus and all germs for that matter made me paranoid. […]
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