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On International Women’s Day: OSM! Writers Honor Their Moms
My Badass Nanay By Mona Lunot-Kuker Mercedes Ledesma Lunot, my mother was a strong and fierce woman who never bowed to anyone who tried to dominate her. I grew up with unconventional parents, seeing them treat each other with equal rights, while maintaining love and respect as well. My nanay was what we call […]
Fil-Am Veterans: No to Marcos’ Burial in Heroes Cemetery
A Los Angeles-based organization of Filipino WW II veterans added its voice opposing to the burial of Philippine President Marcos in the country’s national heroes cemetery. In a press release, the group Justice for Filipino American Veterans (JFAV) said that Marcos was a fake hero. “He does not deserve to be honored as a hero […]
Theater Review: Allegiance is Worth Your Time
By Lumen Castaneda New York City — World War II was declared by Japan. The Japanese in the west coast of the United States were rounded up by the American government for fear of their allegiance to the mother country. This is the plot of the Broadway show Allegiance which revolves on the stand that the […]
Rescue in the Philippines: RP Sheltered Jews from the Holocaust
By Marivir R. Montebon New York City – Very little is known about the Philippines being home to 1300 Jews who escaped from the Nazis during WWIl. Pres. Manuel Quezon, the country’s commonwealth president under the US, wanted to take in 30,000 refugees. But the US government allowed for only that number. Despite the […]
Lea Salonga Returns to Broadway with ‘Allegiance’
By Marivir R. Montebon New York City — Lea Salonga, along with George Takei, were warmly welcomed by well-wishers in the Philippine House on 5th Avenue for the musical Allegiance, set to open on Broadway in the fall of this year. Sporting a short hair and cool in her dark blue print dress, Lea […]
Memoirs: Nanay was an Unknown Great Pianist
By Dr. Pol Tiongson Editor’s Notes: When I first read this piece on Facebook, I immediately asked the author, a dear friend way back in my college days, if I could reprint it here. So here’s to a woman, the late Nenita Ferrer Tiongson, who had to mute her artistic genius of playing the […]
Ismael Jampayas: Integrity will Speak for Itself
By Marivir R. Montebon New York City — The newest additional feather to the cap of Filipino-American leader Ismael Jampayas is his appointment as Ambassador for Peace by the global organization Universal Peace Foundation in March this year. Alongside with Ambassador Mario de Leon Jr., the Philippine Consul General to New York, he accepted […]
FELIPA PASCO: A Single Mom’s Serenity
By Marivir R. Montebon When I think of Lola Epang, I remember the deliciously hypnotic smell of pure hot chocolate (we call it tsokolate in the vernacular) emanating from the kitchen of the impeccably clean old house in Larena. Editor’s Note: This is a chapter from my memoir, Biting the Big Apple: Memoirs […]
Gota de Leche: A Drop of Milk is Life
By Marivir R. Montebon It took my grandmother’s generation 30 years to see a suffrage law passed, but after the first election of women, the Japanese came. We had to pick up the pieces and begin again. Taking the lesson from triathletes, you go through the whole length, and then again, until you are […]
WWII Veteran Honored in Biggest Gala in the US
By Marivir R. Montebon New York City In 2011, WWII veteran Felino Punsalan was accorded a Lifetime Achievement Award during the 6th Annual People’s Ball of the Washington, DC-based Migrant Heritage Commission for his effort to have the USAFFE veterans under Gen. Douglas McArthur fully recognized by the US government. In May this year, he […]
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