Oldest Camera Club in Asia Captures an Intimate Philippines With a spirit sculpted singularlyby sunlight and shade As a melting pot of cultures, the Philippines undergoes cycles of transformation as it molds a unique heritage of diversity. Beyond beautiful landscapes and portraits are beguiling and endearing traditional traits. They allow the Philippines and the Filipinos…
New York, NY [April 23, 2015] – The 14th annual Tribeca Film Festival, co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff, and presented by AT&T, announced the winners of its competition categories tonight at a party hosted by Michael Rapaport at TFF’s creative hub, Tribeca Film Festival at Spring Studios. The Festival runs through…
Los Angeles, CA – The UCLA Pilipino Alumni Association (UCLA PAA) will hold the 2015 Fundraising Benefit Event themed, “Bayanihan – Invest In Your Community,” held on Saturday, May 2nd, 2015 from 10:30am-2:00pm at the James West Alumni Center on the campus of UCLA. The early afternoon starts with a VIP Reception starting at 10:30am followed by…
Long Beach, CA— The Filipino American Chamber of South Bay Los Angeles Area (FACC-SLAA will hold its quarterly mixer on Thursday, March 19 at 6:30 pm at the Long Beach Marriott Hotel, 4700 Airport Plaza Drive. Cynthia Tan, FACC-SLAA vice president urged Filipino business owners to come and enjoy the evening. “We appreciate the sponsorship…
LOS ANGELES – City Attorney Mike Feuer announced Friday, March 6 that his office has filed a civil lawsuit against PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), alleging the company fraudulently misrepresented its capabilities to implement a new billing system for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in order to secure a $70 million city contract and subsequently…
25 February 2015 – The Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles has announced that it will move to its new location at 3435 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 550, Los Angeles, CA 90010. In this connection, the Philippine Consulate General will be closed on February 27 and re-open on March 02 at the new location. The change…
NO-BURN ALERT: MANDATORY WOODBURNING BAN IN EFFECT TOMORROW FOR RESIDENTS OF THE SOUTH COAST AIR BASIN All Indoor and Outdoor Residential Wood Burning Prohibited Due to High Air Pollution Predicted for Tomorrow, Wednesday, February 4, 2015. The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) has issued a residential no-burn alert effective Wednesday, February 4, 2015, for all those living in…
Sunday’s big game will draw millions of excited viewers, who should never lose sight of the electrical hazards that come with enjoying the day. Smart decisions and precautions are the best way to win over the electrical hazards that come with Sunday’s game. Added: January 26, 2015 | By Paul Netter In a football game,…
SCE has crews on standby and reminds its customers to never approach or touch downed power lines With strong Santa Ana winds, sometimes up to 70 mph, forecast throughout the Southland this weekend, Southern California Edison (SCE) reminds its customers to be on alert for downed power lines and possible power outages. The National Weather Service has issued…
Researched, prepared and designed by Robert Pérez De Tagle, IPEAK NEW YORK Dec 6 @ 2pm: Simbang Gabi sa Katedral, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, NYC (one day only) Dec 19 @ 8pm: St Catherine of Siena, Franklin Square, NYC (one day only) Dec 20 @ 6pm: St. John the Evangelist, 71 Murray Av, Goshen (one day…
By Rudy M. Viernes Filipino-Americans of Marin County in North Bay, Caifornia will hold a devotional five-day series of masses called “Simbang Gabi” from December 16 to 20 at the St. Isabella’s parish church at One Trinity Way in Terra Linda, San Rafael, CA. This is the fifth year that this Filipino tradition is held…
The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS) is forecasting heavy rainfall, thunderstorms with hail and gusty winds expected to arrive in Los Angeles County on Friday morning and forecasted to remain through the evening on December 12, 2014. The following are some safety tips to help prepare residents for thunderstorms and lightning;…
The National Weather Service is predicting about an inch of rain during this latest storm. Added: December 11, 2014 | By Caroline Aoyagi-Stom @SCE_CarolineA Southern California may still be drying out from recent record rainstorms, but another downpour is expected to start Thursday evening and last into the Friday morning commute. The National Weather Service is…
A Filipino-American man from Anaheim was charged on Tuesday, Dec. 2, with six counts of grand theft and four counts of elder abuse after allegedly swindling $50,000 from six individuals in a mortgage scam. Sajid Geronimo, 35, called victims facing home foreclosures, allegedly claiming he could cut down their monthly mortgage payments by hundreds of dollars…
(Los Angeles, CA October 13, 2014) The Fil-Am directed horror film, “Voodoo Possession” featuring genre legend Danny Trejo hosts online salute to Filipinos in horror. Fil-Am Creative, the largest Filipino American organization for entertainment and media, is hosting a 2-week salute to Filipinos in the horror film genre at Filamcreative.org starting Oct. 17 and leading up to Halloween. The…
LOS ANGELES – Beer drinkers love their beer ice cold. That’s usually 8 degrees Celsius if taken from a regular refrigerator. But what if they could drink beer at the perfect coldness – minus 8 degrees below zero? Beer drinkers in the United States, including Filipinos, can now drink their favorite beer cooled to perfection…
Advocates call on LA County Supervisors to let ICE agreement, which sunsets September 30, to expire or risk becoming a nation-wide pariah Los Angeles – The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), a leading immigrant rights organization in California, warned the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Monday that a vote for…
30 September 2014 – The Multicultural Health Awareness and Prevention (MHAP) Center at St. Vincent Medical Center held a press conference on September 18, in partnership with the Consulate Generals of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Korea, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, the Philippines, and Thailand to encourage the community to attend the Free Multicultural Health…
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), in partnership with the Office of Senator Loren Legarda, are pleased to announce the selection of Patrick Flores’ curatorial proposal titled Tie A String Around the World as the official Philippine participation at the 56th Venice Art Biennale 2015….
LOS ANGELES – “We want $15 and a union!” “Fast-food workers run this town!” “Si se puede!” These were some of the chants echoing from angry fast-food employees across the United States on Thursday, Sept. 4. The protesters, many of them McDonald’s and various fast-food chain employees, took to the streets to express their concerns…
Supporters Hail Victory for Bipartisanship, Economy and California Taxpayers San Diego – Last Friday, after hearing arguments from both sides in the lawsuit aimed at blocking California’s new Prevailing Wage Law (SB7), San Diego Superior Court Judge Joel R. Wohlfeil affirmed his August 28th ruling upholding SB7. SB7 is a bipartisan law enacted in 2013…
Reprinted with permission from New American Media. Original news report by Ngoc Nguyen. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, federal legislation that was signed into law in 1964 to preserve America’s wild spaces. Through that landmark conservation law, 100 million acres of wilderness have been set aside for the public to…
SILVER LAKE — Fresh ideas are needed for a design contest geared toward promoting ‘keeping it clean’ and responsible dog park etiquette at one of the most popular parks in the City of Los Angeles. Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell and the Department of Recreation and Parks are seeking graphic design entries from the public. Each entry…
The National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA) has encouraged curators and artists to submit curatorial proposals to be chosen for the Philippines’ participation at the 56th Venice Biennale which will take place on the 9th of May until 22nd of November 2015. The country will join the prestigious international event 50 years after …
SAN DIEGO, August 21, 2014 — To address the need for user-friendly information on how to use personal technology, AARP TEK is offering free hands-on education sessions for the Chinese and Filipino communities and all Asian Americans in San Diego on Wednesday, September 3 and Thursday, September 4 in conjunction with AARP’s Ideas@50+ member event….
SCE teams with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to enhance the power pole aversion training that has excelled in helping save the endangered birds from extinction. Added: August 15, 2014 | By Paul Netter They won’t win a beauty contest, but California condors are very impressive birds. With wings sometimes spanning nearly 10 feet, they’re the…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Four teenagers pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murder charges in the fatal beating of a Chinese graduate student at the University of Southern California. According to prosecutors, Jonathan Del Carmen, 19, and Andrew Garcia, 18, Alberto Ochoa, 17, and Alejandra Guerrero, 16, fatally attacked USC engineering student Xinran Ji at around…
LOS ANGELES – Over a hundred activists, undocumented immigrants, and supporters held a prayer vigil on Wednesday, August 6 at McArthur Park in Downtown Los Angeles to call on President Barack Obama to extend administrative relief, particularly to the tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors who are now facing deportation. Obama recently expressed his intent…
LOS ANGELES — A Filipina has recently been named to a key position in the California Wellness Foundation (Cal Wellness), a private, independent organization that seeks to improve the health of the people of California through grant-making efforts for health promotion, wellness education, and disease prevention. Fatima Angeles, a 16-year veteran at Cal Wellness, was…
Family friend clarifies facts about the incident LOS ANGELES – In an August 2 article, Asian Journal reported that Fil-Am teen Paul Alimoren was believed to have drowned after he saved two of his friends from a dangerous rip current during a beach trip with his church group in Ocean Shores, Wash. According to reports from this…
