Timeline of Our Life in America

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Positively Filipino's FilAm History timeline is the most comprehensive available. With this issue, we have added updates (in red) that hopefully keeps up with the constantly increasing number of milestones the community has chalked up to firmly establish its presence in the US. But timelines are always a work-in-progress, so please alert us if there are items missed or to be added.

Meanwhile, FilAm achievers continue to create history as they excel in their respective fields. Making the list in PF's "Fil Ams Among the Remarkable and Famous, Part 39" compiled by our publisher Mona Lisa Yuchengco, are a sportswriter/ESPN host, Miss USA 2022 and a U.S. Ambassador.

Tarmo Peltokoski, a 22-year-old Filipino-Finnish conductor is the current sensation among orchestra fans in Europe. Cultural writer Pablo A. Tariman profiles this amazing classical music star.

October 7 marks the 100th day of the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. How has he fared so far? PF's Manila-based analyst Ernesto M. Hilario writes a report card.

Here's a story that brings us back decades, to WWII and one man's harrowing experience in Fort Santiago. PF contributor Harvey Barkin has the written account of Enrique Fernandez, a Nueva Ecija tradesman, as shared by his son, Manny Fernandez.

Our Video of the Week features FilAm Ben Scharlin digging up the fascinating story of a little known revolutionary/babaylan named Papa Isio in Negros Occidental, the heart of the Philippine sugar trade. 

In The Know

How Filipino Americans could decide the balance of the Senate

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/08/filipino-americans-voters-senate/

Undiscovering the Hidden Histories of California’s Filipino Community

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-education/2022/10/04/undiscovering-the-hidden-histories-of-californias-filipino-community/?fbclid=IwAR155nPAC6P9yCV3XFLVrNbDNY3PZStr71Litvlhi9J-XefUlwbPYg_gFMY

10 Award-Winning Filipino Movies on Netflix You Should Have Watched by Now

https://www.clickthecity.com/tv/article/129988/netflix-award-winning-filipino-movies/

Rhuigi Villaseñor Has Earned It

https://www.gq.com/story/gq-hype-rhuigi-villasenor?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=spotlight-nl&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=thematic_spotlight_092122_2&utm_medium=email&bxid=620a27d6813922770b3bd8a9&cndid=68611519&hasha=05ddf22f422e66287df84d4b55ef48a5&hashb=ce49ef3437bce21746d36352988bb7db8952786c&hashc=ae79b0e4adf2c0ab70bcc4e01da4fd8713d5081e7281775da76c12a1dd74ca53&esrc=spotlight_2022_07_01&sourcecode=thematic_spotlight&utm_term=Thematic_Spotlightt

The Fascinating Life of Nick Joaquin

https://www.esquiremag.ph/long-reads/nick-joaquin-life-a00293-20190507-lfrm?utm_source=Facebook-Esquire&utm_medium=Ownshare&utm_campaign=20221001-fbnp-long-reads-nick-joaquin-life-a00293-20190507-lfrm-fbold&fbclid=IwAR2qYv7s4iUIO-t58TYlDbiAKM5HWmS1iXbl2W1BUvB2Dgh3T-05hPcnirc

This charming Filipino restaurant in Berlin has gained local fans and even television fame

https://news.abs-cbn.com/ancx/food-drink/restaurants/10/02/22/berlins-pinoy-restaurant-has-gained-fans-and-tv-fame?fbclid=IwAR0MzuizWWgOcGDfGXM-WAWqdTiQcy50S1DJfti1nU7KfrSVHvXccqrpsrM

Salad Days

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Next to halo-halo, the perfect summer treat for most Filipinos who grew up in the Philippines is buko salad, especially when fresh young coconut is readily available. Here's a traditional recipe from Kulinarya, the book put together by some of the Philippines' best chefs, that shows how buko fruit salad is done in the old days. Hint: it involves heat, not just mixing stuff together. Our Happy Home Cook recipe for the week.

If you're planning a balikbayan visit, do spare the time to visit Intramuros, the best-preserved remnant of Spanish Manila. First-time contributor Renz Mae S. Ladroma shows as what you can see and enjoy in the Walled City, complete with prices and other details.

In San Francisco where the musical, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, is on stage until August 8, PF Correspondent Myles A. Garcia focus on Alysia Noelle Beltran, the Fil-Am actor who plays the lead role of Esmeralda, the gypsy.

Emerging as one of the acclaimed books of the year, Fil-Am author Elaine Castillo's first novel America Is Not the Heart is a must-read, according to reviewer Pia Cortez.

Some riveting stories that you may have missed:

The Philippines is building a green, disaster-resilient city
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/new-clark-city-philippines/index.html?utm_source=CNN%20Five%20Things&utm_campaign=59f5ebca53-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_23_07_43&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6da287d761-59f5ebca53-91010673

In Duterte’s Philippines, Having a Beer Can Now Land You in Jail
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/21/world/asia/philippines-duterte-crackdown.html

'I tended to the bodies': attacked by the Philippine army
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/21/philippines-lives-land-lost-coffee-empire-militarised-politics

Galo's Road (page 11)
http://connectionarchives.com/PDF/2018/071118/Arlington.pdf

For video of the week, CNN Philippines features the work of Dr. Josephine Bundoc and Prosthetics and Orthotics Technician Ariel Zinampan on assisting People with Disabilities (PWD).