“Don’t play out in the sun.  You’ll get too dark!” Most Filipinos have heard this phrase from parents or elders numerous times when...

It’s no secret that Filipinos are obsessed with basketball.  Same goes for Filipino Americans.  Ask many Filipino Americans and more likely than not,...

As a Filipino American, have you ever considered moving to the Philippines?  Whether you were born in the diaspora or moved from the...

Despite efforts to create Filipino ethnic enclaves – Historic Filipinotown in LA, SoMa Pilipinas in San Francisco, Filipino Village in National City, Little...

  Welcome to Canada, eh?  In addition to our trip to Seattle last month, the TFAL crew was able to take a trip...

In Los Angeles, Filipinos have a special relationship with the Little Tokyo neighborhood. In the 1920s and 1930s, Filipino immigrants formed a viable...

Over the next few episodes, the TFAL crew brings you some voices from the Pacific Northwest.  This past month, TFAL was on location...

In this TFAL episode, we switch gears a bit and give you a few literary works in audio form by Giovanni Ortega, multi-disciplinary...

Filipinos and karaoke go together like peanut butter and jelly, like peas and carrots, like green mangoes and bagoong. Karaoke is essential to...

We talk a lot about food on the podcast (and in life) partly because it’s fun, but also because it creates discussion about...

Most of us have some ounce of Filipino pride.  “Successes” by other Filipinos such as Bruno Mars, Jordan Clarkson, and Catriona Gray become...

During the holiday season, TFAL was invited by the good folks at Cinema Sala to record a podcast episode live in front of...

Though beauty pageants in the Philippines can be traced back to the celebration of Santacruzan and other religious festivals, modern beauty pageants, emerged...

We conclude our San Diego interviews with community organizers DJ Kuttin Kandi, Kirin Macapugay, and Ree Obana. In this discussion we highlight the...