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Marianne Villanueva: The Voice of a Filipina Emigrant

Marianne Villanueva: The Voice of a Filipina Emigrant

Marianne Villanueva writes and publish stories about the Philippines and the lives of Filipino-Americans abroad. She was born and raised in Manila. She was accepted at the University of the Philippines Writers Workshop when she was only 17, and the Creative Writing Program at Stanford when she was 25.

Her critically acclaimed first collection of short [...]

FilAm White House Executive Chef: Cristeta Comerford

FilAm White House Executive Chef: Cristeta Comerford

Cristeta Comerford, the first woman chef in the White House is also the first of Filipino descent. She has been trained in culinary arts in the Philippines, Austria and the United States. Her specialty is in French classical techniques, ethnic and American cuisine and has experience working with chefs in San Francisco and the California [...]

The band

The band “JOURNEY” launch their US Tour this week

JOURNEY–Neal Schon (guitar), Jonathan Cain (keyboards), Ross Valory (bass), Deen Castronovo (drums) and new lead singer Arnel Pineda—is hitting the road to promote REVELATION, the highly anticipated three-disc CD/DVD package set for released June 3 exclusively at Wal-Mart stores in North America.
REVELATION: The album to look for. The future looks bright once again.

A new vitality [...]

Worlds In Collision

Worlds In Collision

According to their Worlds In Collision website :
“This project serves to record Filipino American history in the United States, through a lineage of our artists and makers and their cultural achievements in painting and sculpture, graphic design, graffiti writing, turntablism, music, writing, and film. This will function as a historical and cultural resource, for and [...]