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The Solo Traveler: First Stop, Cuba

Reflections of a Middle-age Black Latina Traveling Solo Around the World By Carmen Bardequez Brown Traveling – It leaves you speechless then turns you into a storyteller.- Ibn Battuta   New York – I like this quote because it truly captures my experience and reflection of traveling alone for the last two years. I have […]

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Champagne: Culturally Fair, Truthful Education Could End Racism

By Marivir R. Montebon New York City – A former mayor of the South Toms River said that an enlightened and multi-culturally fair education may be able to erase the discriminatory attitudes and racism in the US. Lawyer Joseph Makhandal Champagne Jr. who is also an Ambassador for Peace of the UPF spoke before students and alumni of the […]

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OSM! Reaches 2.2 M Pages Read in 2015

New York City — As the world rejoiced to welcome 2016, the year 2015 ended with OSM! counting 2.2 million pages read and 7.5 million hits since its inception in 2012. The US remains its top readership, followed by the Russian Federation, China, France, Germany, Philippines, and Sweden. The top stories for 2015 are: Fil-Am Singer […]

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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 […]

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MADONNA DAVIDOFF: Art is a Matter of Relevance

BY MARIVIR MONTEBON Mention Madonna, and almost always the images of the lady Mary, mother of Jesus Christ, or the pop entertainer who is also referred to as the mother of reinvention (like a virgin, material girl, and all that stuff) strike the mind. But comes now another Madonna, a Filipino, Swiss, and American rolled […]

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