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Podcast Loida Nicolas Lewis, business leader, part 2LISTEN/PAKINGGANThis week on Pinoy Pod, Part 2 of our two-part interview with Filipino American business executive Loida Nicolas Lewis, chairwoman and chief executive officer of TLC Beatrice LLC and TLC Beatrice China and Philippines. A native of Sorsogon, Philippines, Lewis recently became the first Filipino and the first woman to be inducted into the Asian Hall of Fame in Seattle.Lewis took over TLC Beatrice in 1994. That was a year after the un ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Loida Nicolas, business leader, part 1LISTEN/PAKINGGAN This week on Pinoy Pod, Part 1 of a two-part interview with Filipino American business executive Loida Nicolas Lewis, chairwoman and chief executive officer of TLC Beatrice LLC and TLC Beatrice China and Philippines. A native of Sorsogon, Philippines, Lewis was the first Asian woman to pass the New York State Bar without having studied in the United States.Lewis took over TLC Beatrice in 1994. That was a year after the untimely death of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pilipino Cultural Night: A rite of passage for FilAm studentsLISTEN/PAKINGGANFor thousands of Filipino American college students throughout the country, it's PCN season. PCN stands for Pilipino Cultural Night, a yearly ritual featuring Filipino ethnic dances and culture, and skits exploring such issues as family, identity and history.For tens of thousands of Filipino American youths, being part of a PCN, either as performers or as members of the production staff, has been a rite of passage ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Socially conscious capitalist Yobie BenjaminLISTEN/PAKINGGANPublished May 1, 2007As a highly successful businessman, Yobie Benjamin followed a unusual path.He grew up in the Manila suburb of Malabon where his family struggled to make ends meet. He went to the University of the Philippines, where he became an activist against the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. He was arrested and tortured by the regime.After he was released, he immersed himself in the world of computers and later moved to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Pinoy Pod 48 "Heart in Two Places'' chronicles an... Pinoy Pod 48"Heart in Two Places'' chronicles an immigrant's struggles, triumphs in AmericaThis week, Pinoy Pod features an interview with veteran Filipino American journalist Gemma Nemenzo, the managing editor of Filipinas magazine. She talks to The Chronicle's Benjamin Pimentel about her new book, "Heart in Two Places: An Immigrant's Journey."The critically-acclaimed book is, in many ways, a chronicle of the Filipino American experience told from different viewpoints - that of an expatria ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Pinoy Pod 46 New cookbook celebrates Philippine c... Pinoy Pod 46New cookbook celebrates Philippine cuisine, history and culture What started out as a dare turned into a cookbook that no only celebrates authentic Philippine cuisine, but also commemorates Filipino history and culture.This week on Pinoy Pod, the authors of "Memories of Philippine Kitchens,'' restaurateurs Romy Dorotan and Amy Besa, tell The Chronicle's Michelle Louie about how the book started when a friend lamented about a dearth of good Filipino cookbooks.The husband and wife ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Pinoy Pod 45 Filipino American a hit on "YouChoob... Pinoy Pod 45Filipino American a hit on "YouChoob''In do-it-yourself world of Internet video, Christine Gambito has become a star. And the Filipino America nurse and aspiring actress is this week's guest on Pinoy Pod.Gambito is the creator, producer and cast of "Happy Slip,'' which has become one of the most popular channels on the Internet video site YouTube.com - or as she imitates her mother saying it, "You Choob.''Happy Slip, a series of short, humorous videos that draw heavily on her ex ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Pinoy Pod 44 Images from the Filipino Diaspora Vic... Pinoy Pod 44 Images from the Filipino Diaspora Victor Bareng moved to the United States in 1986, at the height of the political upheaval in the Philippines during the final days of the Marcos regime. As he began a new life in the United States, Bareng increasingly became interested in the history of Filipinos in America and in telling that story through photographs.Some of Bareng's work, together with those of veteran documentary photographer Rick Rocamora, are on exhibit at the Manilatown ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Pinoy Pod 43 "Usaping Puki" 2007 - Staking a clai... Pinoy Pod 43"Usaping Puki" 2007 - Staking a claim for peaceThe Filipina community's production of "Usaping Puki,'' the Tagalog version of Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues," created a firestorm when it debuted in the Bay Area in 2004.The themes of women's rights and domestic violence awareness - and its unbridled expressions of women's sexuality - were startling to many who seldom spoke of the topics in private.Since then, the annual performance staged by the Filipina Women's Network has drawn ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Pinoy Pod 42"Empire of care'' supplies steady st... Pinoy Pod 42"Empire of care'' supplies steady stream of Pinoy nurses to U.S.Go to any major hospital in America and chances are you'll find Filipinos on the nursing staffs. For decades, the Philippines has been a major supplier of Filipino nurses to the U.S. health care system.That's been good for the Filipinos for whom coming to America means higher pay and better benefits, although many of them have also endured exploitation and discrimination.Now, with the critical shortage of nurses in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Pinoy Pod 41 Part Two - Buffalo Soldiers returned... Pinoy Pod 41Part Two - Buffalo Soldiers returned to Bay Area with Filipino wives, customsVangie Canonizado Buell's memoir, "25 Chickens and a Pig for a Bride," tackled a little known chapter in the histories of the United States and the Philippines: The thousands of African Americans, known as Buffalo Soldiers, who served in the war between the two countries.Buell's grandfather, Ernest Stokes, came to identify with the Filipinos so much that he decided to stay in the Philippines where he st ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Pinoy Pod 40Buffalo Soldier came to the Philippi... Pinoy Pod 40Buffalo Soldier came to the Philippines to fight, instead found new way of lifePinoy Pod joins the commemoration of Black History Month with a special podcast on a little known chapter in the histories of the Philippines and the United States.When Filipino revolutionaries resisted the U.S. occupation of the Philippines at the turn of the 20th century during the Philippine-American War, thousands of African Americans were recruited to crush the rebellion.It was not an easy missio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 39FACES pushes for environmental cleanup in the PhilippinesThis week on Pinoy Pod, Michelle Louie interviews Galatea King of the Filipino American Coalition for Environmental Solidarity, or FACES, which is waging campaigns to call attention to ecological problems in the Philippines.King talks about two of the Berkeley group's main causes - getting the United States government to take more responsibility for the cleanup of the former military bases and to get Chevron Corp. of San R ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 38 The legacy of Nick Joaquin This week on Pinoy Pod, we talk to Bay Area writer Tony Joaquin, who is writing a biography about his uncle, Nick Joaquin, one of the Philippines' most revered literary figures. In a career that spanned more than half a century, Nick Joaquin wrote novels, poems, plays, essays and biographies, exploring many facets of Philippine history in the 20th century from the American colonial period to the Marcos regime. Joaquin, who ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 37No easy match for biracial Fil-Am toddler in dire need of bone marrow donorThis week on Pinoy Pod, we interview the parents of Harrison Leonardo, a 2-year-old San Leandro boy who is battling Acute Myloid Leukemia, a cancer of the blood.Harrison is in dire need of a bone marrow transplant, but the search for a donor has been difficult because of his mixed heritage. He is half Filipino and half white and his donor will most likely share the same heritage.Harrison's parents, Stepha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 36 Tagalog on Site teaches language, fills cultural void This week on Pinoy Pod, we spotlight a program that takes young Filipino Americans to the Philippines to learn Tagalog and find themselves in the process. The program is called Tagalog on Site, which combines language instruction with lessons on history, culture and life in the Philippines. Pinoy Pod's Michelle Louie talks with new Tagalog on Site director Karen Villanueva, who says that like m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Pinoy Pod 35 The poet and his past - Part 2 of ou... Pinoy Pod 35The poet and his past - Part 2 of our talk with Oscar PenarandaOscar Penaranda tells Pinoy Pod about his personal journey from his boyhood in the Philippines to his coming of age in the United States and how his experiences shaped his writing.Penaranda also reads from his book of poetry "Full Deck (jokers playing)." Often gently humorous and sometimes wickedly barbed, Penaranda's poems are like cards dealt from a fresh pack - and you can't tell how the hand will play out until t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 34Penaranda's PrinciplesStoryteller, poet and playwright Oscar Penaranda has written compelling tales for more than 30 years. His characters and story lines are as rich as his own life.Now a high school teacher, he's lived in the coastal town of Barugo on the Philippine island of Leyte, in cosmopolitan Vancouver and the San Francisco Bay Area. For many years, he was a follower of the seasons and joined the workers who toiled and trekked from the farmlands of California to the fish ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 33 FilAm scientist warns faster Arctic ice melt another sign of global warming A group of top NASA scientists led by Josefino Comiso said in a recent report that sea ice in the Arctic region in the Winter has been shrinking at a faster rate in the last two years. The alarming trend is another sign of global warming, says Comiso, is leading expert on climate change in the Arctic. This week, Pinoy Pod talks to Comiso, a senior scientist in the cry ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 32 FilAm Author Patricia Laurel In this week's edition of Pinoy Pod, author Patricia Laurel talks about how she hopes her latest book, "Only If You Can Find Me," helps Filipino American youth appreciate their cultural heritage. The book is the tale of a young Filipino American girl named Samantha Plum, who lives in San Francisco. But when Sammy travels to the Philippines for the first time for her family's town fiesta, she encounters the spirits of her ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 31The Story of the ParolThis week on Pinoy Pod, we look at the rich and diverse history of Filipino Christmas lanterns known as parols.M.C. Canlas, founder and director of San Francisco's annualParol Lantern Festival and Parade, calls the parol a "symbol of Filipino nationhood.''More on Pinoy Pod atSFGate.comLISTEN/PAKINGGAN Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 30 Covering the People Power Revolution Photographer Kim Komenich won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the People Power Revolution that forced President Ferdinand Marcos from office 20 years ago. At the time, Komenich was a photographer with the San Francisco Examiner and covered the story with then-reporter Phil Bronstein. Both are now with The Chronicle, and Bronstein is the paper's editor. Komenich said they covered "heroes'' and "larger than lif ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 29The struggle for Little ManilaFrom the 1920s through the 1960s, Little Manila in Stockton was a center of the Filipino American community, a vibrant neighborhood where the likes of Carlos Bulosan and other prominent Pinoys lived and worked.But by the 1980s, Little Manila was disappearing as developers replaced the historic structures with fast food joints and parking lots.When the last buildings were scheduled for demolition,San Francisco State Universityprofessor Dawn Mabalon a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 28 Overcoming domestic violence in the Filipino community Cherie Querol Moreno is known to many Filipinos in the San Francisco Bay Area for her work as a journalist and community advocate. Four years ago, she took on a new challenge: focusing attention on the problem of spousal abuse in the community. She is currently the coordinator of Kumares/Kumpares, which is part of the Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse, or CORA , in San Mateo County. In De ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 27 Oasis for Girls in San Francisco's SoMa For seven years, Oasis for Girls has provided a haven for girls and young women - ages 10 to 20 - in San Francisco's South of Market Area. With its after-school and community programs, Oasis provides a place for girls to discover and develop their strengths, dabble in the arts, learn life skills or simply take a personal moment along the journey to womanhood. Founded in an area that has become a home to many Filipi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 26 Chronicling the Filipino diaspora This week on Pinoy Pod, The Chronicle's Michelle Louie interviews Jeremiah Opiniano, president and founder of the Overseas Filipino Workers Journalism Consortium , a non-profit group of journalists who aim to cover the stories and the issues affecting Filipinos who have migrated far from their homeland. Opiniano touches on issues such as whether the exodus of millions of Filipinos has diminished Philippine national ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 25 Sheila Coronel takes on new challenge in Big Apple A chat with Sheila Coronel, the first director of the just-opened Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University. She talks about her career in Manila and her views on investigative journalism in today's world. In 1989, Coronel was already a highly respected reporter, but gave up her full-time job to start a non-profit organization: the Philippine Center for Investigative Jour ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 24 Singer Carlos Zialcita's passion for blues This podcast spotlights blues singer and harmonica player Carlos Zialcita, who has spent the last three decades entrenched in the Bay Area blues scene. He is one of the artists featured in the "Filipino Musicians Through The Generations" exhibit on view through Dec. 23 at the International Hotel in San Francisco. The Manila-born Zialcita, a teacher at Alameda's Encinal High School, spoke with The Chronicle's Mic ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 23 Filipina Women's Network takes on the future The Filipina Women's Network, a leading organization for career-minded Filipinas, is reaching out to a cross-section of Filipino and Fil-Am organizations. The goal: Develop a game plan to elevate the presence and participation of Filipinas in leadership positions in corporate America, public service and government. Marily Mondejar, president of the Filipina Women's Network, talks to Chronicle Deputy Managing E ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 22 Lifting the Veil on War Brides' Struggles Norma Vega Castillo, a newlywed still in her teens, was among the first war brides to leave the battle-torn Philippines after World War II. Her husband was a Filipino American officer in the U.S. Army and she hoped their shared ethnicity would make it easier to adjust to her new life. But the reality was different than her dreams. Her struggles as a newcomer and those of war brides are the subject of "Strange ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 21 FilAms embrace Reggae Spirit Skateboarding brought Chris Cortez and Jose Pangan together, but the two Filipino Americans have become more well know for their music. Cortez is the drummer and Pangan is the lead vocalist for the reggae band Native Elements. For more than a decade, Native Elements have been thriving on the Bay Area reggae scene, performing at musical festivals such as Reggae on the River and the Monterey Bay Reggaefest and packing them in a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 20 The Forgotten Amerasians More than 50,000 Filipino Amerasians fathered by military men stationed at former U.S. military bases in the Philippines are the "forgotten Amerasians." Only about 10 percent have proper documentation to prove their citizenship, but most do not have the money or the support of their fathers to come to the United States. This week's edition of Pinoy Pod looks at the Philippine Children's Fund of America , which has helped 11 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 19 Dan Gonzales pushes his students to the head of the class Meet Dan Gonzales of the Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco State University. Musicians and other performers tip their hats to him in the liner notes for their CDs and in their bios. Writers, community leaders and educators count on him as a friend, colleague or sounding board. How did one guy manage to influence so many people? Hear what broadcast journalist Malou Nubla and comedia ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 18 A cockroach on Ferdinand Marcos, Imelda sends in the clowns and other tales from a tragic murder case Part 2 of the interview with Terri Mast, widow of Silme Domingo who was one of two FilAm martyrs of the movement against the Marcos dictatorship. She recalls her bizarre encounter with the Marcoses in Hawaii during his deposition in connection with the 1981 murders of the two FilAm activists. LISTEN/PAKINGGAN Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 17 Remembering two FilAm martyrs Many Filipinos lost their lives in the 14-year battle against the Marcos dictatorship that culminated in the People Power Revolution 20 years ago.Two of them were Filipino Americans. In June 1981, Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes , two union organizers in Seattle who were also known anti-Marcos activists, were shot in cold blood. The assassinations shocked the Filipino American community. The murderers were ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 16 Farewell to Pati Poblete Pinoy Pod says goodbye to Pati Poblete and Benny Evangelista talks to her about her book, "The Oracles: My Filipino Grandparents in America." LISTEN/PAKINGGAN Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 15 The Kuyas of Comedy Three months ago, we featured an interview with Rex Navarrete , the most famous Filipino American comedian today. This week, we focus on two other Filipino humorists who are trying to tickle the Pinoy funny bone in Manila. Allan Manalo was a theater artist and stand-up comedian in the San Francisco Bay Area when he decided to move to the Philippines three years ago. He has slowly built a following in the last few years, and ha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 14 Amnesty International: More political killings under GMA An interview with Tim Parritt , the head of the Amnesty International team that drafted the report criticizing Arroyo's human rights record. LISTEN/PAKINGGAN Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 12 Remembering the Sakadas of Hawaii Part 1 Pinoy Pod features the centennial of Filipino migration to Hawaii and beyond. LISTEN/PAKINGGAN Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 11 Irwin Ver to Gringo Honasan: "Forget about coups." In Part 2 of our interview with Irwin Ver , the former head of Marcos' Presidential Guard talks about Gringo Honasan and the unrest within the Philippine military. LISTEN/PAKINGGAN Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 10 Irwin Ver recalls the final days of the Marcos regime The former head of Presidential Guard finally speaks on the Marcos years, his late father and the unrest within the Philippine military. LISTEN/PAKINGGAN Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 9 Lou Diamond Phillips and the Beteranos of World War II FilAm actor Lou Diamond Phillips talks about his reasons for supporting the struggle of Filipino World War II veterans. And then a chat with Almario Julaton , one of the thousands of Pinoy veterans who moved to the United States hoping for a better life for their families. LISTEN/PAKINGGAN Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 8 The Pinoy Soma Scene San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood -- best known as Soma - isn't the most scenic part of the city. But young Filipinos have found a home here, a place where they can express themselves in music, poetry and activism. Pinoy Pod's Michelle Louie offers an upclose look at the Pinoys of Soma. Meet hiphop artist Mario Demiera, a.k.a. Nomi ,who left the Twin Cities and was blown away by Soma's Pinoy scene. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 7 "Hello Garci" one year later The most unusual political scandal in recent Philippine history. A chat with Lito Gutierrez of Philippine News and attorney Rodel Rodis . Film director Lupita Aquino Kashiwahara also shares her thoughts on President Arroyo . LISTEN/PAKINGGAN Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 6 Malou Nubla (foreground) with sister Christine Where in the world is Malou Nubla? She was once the most popular Filipino TV personality in the San Francisco Bay Area. Then, she disappeared. Malou Nubla explains explains what happened. LISTEN/PAKINGGAN Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 5 Lakas and the Makibaka Hotel Tony Robles wanted his son, Lakas, to know more about Manilatown, the Pinoy neighborhood in San Francisco. So he started writing fun children's books. Here's the second one. LISTEN/PAKINGGAN Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 4 The Pinoy Blogger and Cavite, the thriller Episode 4 focuses on Filipino bloggers . We had a chat with Abe Olandres , Web pioneer who created Pinoytopblogs , political analyst Manolo Quezon , journalist Sheila Coronel of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism , Bryanboy and the most popular Pinoy blogger, Rickey Yaneza . And we talk to Neill Dela Llana ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 3 Usaping Puki This is Episode No. 3. Marily Mondejar and Elena Mangahas explain how the Vagina Monologues in Tagalog helped celebrate Pinay sexuality and power. LISTEN/PAKINGGAN Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast Pinoy Pod 2 Talagang Crazy! Medyo humahabol ako. But here's Part 2 of the interview with Rex Navarrete . Mas mahirap ang weekly podcast, pero kahit paano kakayanin. Listen/Pakinggan Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Podcast PINOY POD At mas marami pang kuwento kuwento... Nanahimik ang Kuwento Kuwento nitong mga nakaraang buwan. Pero balik na po. There's a reason for the break: I'm now also producing Pinoy Pod , a new podcast for Filipinos, for my newspaper, The San Francisco Chronicle . It's the first of its kind of a major U.S. newspaper and so far, it's been well received. You can check it out here . Pinoy Pod was inspir ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |