CHRISTMAS came early this year during the 2nd annual HiFi Holiday Festival attended by Fil-Am celebrities and community members. Organized by Filipinos Advancing Creative Education (F.A.C.E.), the HiFi Holiday Festival held at Rideback Ranch in Los Angeles’ Historic Filipinotown spread Christmas joy through live entertainment, free meals, family-friendly activities and a toy distribution for children…
The long-awaited landmark celebrates the Filipino American community A community celebration to officially unveil the Historic Filipinotown Eastern Gateway will be held on May 7, following the landmark’s installation at the beginning of April. Rising 30 feet high and spanning 82 feet across the width of Beverly Boulevard at the eastern entrance into Historic Filipinotown, “Talang…
THE next time you drive through Los Angeles’ Historic Filipinotown, there’s a new landmark to see as the long-awaited gateway was installed on Friday, April 1. The eastern entrance of Beverly Boulevard is now home to the Historic Filipinotown Eastern Gateway, officially named “Talang Gabay: Our Guiding Star.” Standing 30 feet high and spanning 82…
THE highly-anticipated gateway marking the entrance of Historic Filipinotown is slated to be unveiled in May, according to an update from Los Angeles Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell’s office. In a release sent on February, February 25, O’Farrell, whose district covers Historic Filipinotown, said the Eastern Gateway will be installed and publicly unveiled in time for Asian…
ANDRE Cadiz was having lunch outside of Dollar Hits in Los Angeles’ Historic Filipinotown on Saturday, April 3 when he heard a man yelling incoherently. The 26-year-old Filipino American graphic designer, who was sitting facing the restaurant with his back toward the strip mall’s parking lot, chose to ignore the remarks and kept eating. Then,…
LA Downtown Medical Center (LADMC), a five-star rated hospital by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in the heart of Historic Filipinotown, is marking its second anniversary. LADMC held a socially distanced anniversary celebration on Friday, March 5 with giveaways, a vaccination drive, entertainment and lunch for staff and community members. The medical…
HISTORIC Filipinotown restaurant The Park’s Finest has unveiled limited-edition merchandise as part of the Vans “Foot the Bill” initiative to support small businesses as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. The Park’s Finest — a family business along Temple Street that serves American cuts of BBQ with a Filipino flavor — partnered with Mabuhay Massive to design…
By Yey Coronel, FASGI Executive Director; Melanie Sabado-Liwag, PhD, MPH – California State University, Los Angeles Faculty; Reener Balingit, CHES – FASGI Mental Health Program Coordinator; and Nicole Aniceto, California State University Los Angeles, Master of Public Health Student Filipino American Service Group, Incorporated (FASGI) continues to serve Filipino-Americans and all of the residents in…
THE Pilipino Workers Center (PWC) in Historic Filipinotown is among the local organizations that have been selected as part of Los Angeles County’s Community Equity Fund to help slow the spread of COVID-19 in communities disproportionately impacted by the virus. Through the fund, announced in December, the 51 organizations — which include health care centers,…
IN the spirit of giving and bayanihan, Filipino American organizations on Thursday, December 17 held a blood donation and bone marrow registration drive in Los Angeles’ Historic Filipinotown for a Fil-Am who was diagnosed with leukemia. Kalayaan Incorporated, in cooperation with the Long Beach Bacolod Association, held the drive with the City of Hope at…
FOR one day only, diners can get a taste of Apl.de.Ap’s adobo while giving back to the Philippines, which has been recently hit by three typhoons. The Black Eyed Peas member’s non-profit organization, the Apl.de.Ap Foundation International, is partnering with Los Angeles’ HiFi Kitchen to bring “Unbreakable: Adobo in Action” this Saturday, Dec. 5. The…
HISTORIC Filipinotown in Los Angeles has experienced a disproportionately high rate of COVID-19 infections, yet when it comes to responding to the 2020 Census, the neighborhood’s response rate remains low. To tackle the two issues at hand, a pop-up event was held at the LA Downtown Medical Center — a Fil-Am co-owned hospital along West…
With less than 30 days until the 2020 census response deadline, an upcoming event in Los Angeles’ Historic Filipinotown neighborhood is part of the final push to have community members counted in the decennial enumeration. A drive-thru/walk-up census event will be held on Saturday, September 5 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at LA Downtown…
The project is expected to be completed by early 2022 A new chapter for a long-standing organization in Los Angeles’ Historic Filipinotown is underway. Nonprofit organization Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA) on Thursday, Aug. 27 announced it began rebuilding its new headquarters in the neighborhood that will incorporate affordable housing units. The project, named…
Los Angeles’ Historic Filipinotown will soon have a gateway structure to welcome visitors into the neighborhood and to honor the contributions of Filipino Americans in the city. The Historic Filipinotown Eastern Gateway Project, named “Talang Gabay: Our Guiding Star,” will be placed along the stretch of Beverly Boulevard that designates the neighborhood. It is set…
Fil-Am leaders in Los Angeles launch Filipino Complete Count Committee of LA County In an effort to combat an undercount of the Filipino community, Filipino American leaders in the Los Angeles area have established a new outreach endeavor to ensure a full count of Filipino residents in the United States in the 2020 census. On…
SAN PEDRO, CA – In conjunction with “Recuerdos-Souvenirs,” New Works by Eliseo “EL1SY” Art Silva which opened at Pinta*Dos Philippine Art Gallery on October 3 and will be up until November 23, 2019, the artist will conduct a guided tour of his Carson-based “recuerdos” on Friday, October 25 from 1:30pm -4:00 pm. Dubbed as the…
Time Out magazine highlights Filipino cuisine option in one of LA’s up-and-coming areas In the last two decades, Angelenos have lamented gentrification’s impact on the erasure of the historic local color that has raised rents and kicked out residents who’ve lived in certain neighborhoods for decades. Among the neighborhoods on the cusp of that societal…
LOS Angeles Filipino-American organizations and community leaders are seeking to rename a portion of a main Historic Filipinotown street to honor the Filipino labor leader Larry Itliong who led the famous Delano Grape Strike in 1965. A proposal to rename part of Temple Street that traverses Historic Filipinotown to Larry Itliong Avenue has already been…
The first batch of Congressional Gold Medals awarded to Filipino WWII veterans and next of kin in a ceremony in Historic Filipinotown Filipino World War II veterans in LA on Wednesday, May 9 began receiving their Congressional Gold Medals, a long-awaited formal recognition for the more than 260,000 Filipino soldiers and guerrilla fighters who fought…
Inaugural hub locations include Historic Filipinotown In Los Angeles, cars continue to be the preferred method of travel for many of the county’s 10 million residents. This is true even as investments go into expanding the city’s transit network. Having a car often means independence, more freedom, and a lot of saved time. Yet many…
Participants take on Eating Challenges, HiFi Trivia, and More for a Good Cause What: Hidden Hi-Fi is an exhilarating day of adventure for all ages! Teams of 2-4 will travel to locations all over Historic Filipinotown while performing fun tasks, solving puzzles and answering trivia at each destination– all while racing against other teams toward…
A native Angeleno, Garcetti considers himself a friend of Filipino Americans, having worked alongside and for them throughout his political career. The city, which he has led since 2013, is home to over 139,000 Fil-Ams, making them the most represented Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) group. Before he was mayor of the second-largest metropolis…
LOS ANGELES City Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell, the Board of Public Works (BPW), Bureau of Street Lighting, and community stakeholders on Wednesday, October 26 officially unveiled a streetlight project that improves pedestrian safety, and transforms the look and feel of one of the busiest commercial corridors in the 13th District. O’Farrell and BPW Commissioner Joel Jacinto…
