I have been following Fil-Am singer Michelle Martinez for the past year and that is saying a lot because I am not a big fan of R&B (I can’t stand female artists singing about how they don’t need a man or Brian McKnight counting numbers). This girl has got a set of pipes and it [...]

Fil-Am artist Lorely Garrote Trinidad has a great recap of the two nights of music, poetry, and dance filled the air at Martin’s Bar in Tagbilaran City last week at THE HOMEMADE POETRY JAM, a gathering and showcase of Boholano artists performing their original work. So check out her recap THE HOMEMADE POETRY JAM REIGNITES [...]

The unfortunate events of Typhoon Ondoy has been covered non-stop in the media to the point that it made me take a break from updating this blog. Over 200 deaths have been confirmed in many reports. According to an article from Voice of America, Philippine authorities say that 240 people have died in the floods [...]

This update come to us from Kevin Nadal author of Filipino American Psychology about his upcoming stand-up performance. So if you are in the area, please attend and support Fil-Am triple threat Kevin Nadal along with the other Fil-Am Comedians at LAUGH LOUNGE NYC. Six Fil-Am Comedians (as seen on Comedy Central, HBO, Fox..etc) perform [...]

Got this update from Fil-Am Ako’s contributing editor Kristine concerning the National Alliance for Filipino Concerns (NAFCON) Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.  If you didn’t already know, next month is going to be Filipino-American History Month and NAFCON is organizing this event to kababayans (countrymen) in the US. If you are in the area and [...]

Just wanted to take this opportunity to congratulate the hardest working man I know on the internet, Christian Cabuay. For those of you who do not already know, Christian Cabuay runs multiple websites that include Baybayin.com and PinoyTattoos.com to name a few. Recently PinoyTattoos.com is a nationwide FINALIST for the 2009 Philippine Blog Awards under [...]

I wanted to share this article from TIME because contemporary Filipino novelist F. Sionil José describes Philippines the best. By Tim Kindseth Thursday, Feb. 05, 2009 The haves: Modern skyscrapers emerge from the Manila morass Peter Bialobrzeski / Laif Antipolo street winds through Manila’s Sampaloc district, right along a railway line. In his 1962 novel [...]

Thousands of people have been forced from their homes as flooding caused by heavy rain brought chaos to the Philippines capital Manila. Thousands of Pinoys are suffering after the devastation of Typhoon Ondoy hitting Philippines. In the latest updates, people in Manila and nearby towns were marooned by flashfloods after Typhoon Ondoy made its way [...]

This is some interesting news coming from BusinessWeek concerning a celebrity doctor in the Philippines suing a lawyer who used Facebook to call for patients to boycott her practice. The controversial suit was filed by Philippine celebrity doctor Vicky Belo, against Argee Guevarra, the legal counsel of one of Belo’s former patients who accused her [...]

For those of you moviegoers out there wanting to check out the latest film over the weekend, check out Fame, the remake of the 1980 musical, which centered on the students of the New York Academy of Performing Arts. In the film, Fil-Am actress Anna Maria Perez de Tagle (that is one long name) is [...]