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Ten Reasons Why You Should Support Indie Films of the IFFM
By Marivir R. Montebon The five-year-old International Film Festival Manhattan (IFFM) is worth your time and money, whether or not you are Filipino, but especially if you are Filipino. There were 50 independent film entries in this year’s festival, and select films were shown at the Producer’s Club on Times Square on October 23 […]
An Essay from a Relentless Soul: The Writing Table
By Bayang Gudaw Editor’s Note: The writer is a Filipino immigrant with incredible gifts in writing, photography, and culinary arts. He lives in New York and realized how much he loves the Big Apple when he missed its bustle to pursue advanced studies in Australia. Bayang Gudaw is back in his second home, and […]
The Song of the Last Blue Whale
The Monk Dude Dada Nabhanilananda Los Altos Hills — In 1984, I walked into the Greenpeace office in Adelaide, Australia, seeking information about the Blue Whale. There I learned that this remarkable animal, the largest ever to have lived on this Earth and one of the most intelligent and sensitive, was severely endangered. […]
Women Shifting to the Center
By Marivir R. Montebon Women must free themselves from the bondage of patriarchy in all fronts: gender, economy, culture, politics, and race. – Simone de Beauvoir Pretty soon, herstory and herstoric moments will become a household word. My optimism is grounded on the fact that the feminist assertion is taking center stage these days. It […]
OSM! Enjoys Big Readership in Year 1
OSM! is enjoying a vast readership worldwide with a current and growing online readers of more than 22,000 in less than a year of existence. (February 2013 stats by WordPress) The readers are professional men and women mostly based in the US (New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland, Chicago, the Carolinas, […]
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