VIA Times – December 2018 Issue Vital News, Vibrant VIews for Asian Americans in Chicago & Midwest

By: Maria Girlie Pascual   This year is a special one for me. This was the year of immense joy, harried lifestyle with work and duty, and a year of reflection and pain. Like the proverbial line from the Forrest Gump ...

“They sometimes call me Dr. Phil,” he said.  Dominick Geraci is a tall, Italian, middle-aged man with a ready smile and a steady handshake.  He just opened up shop next to the monster mart Seafood City, a Filipino-owned chain of ...

By: Lou Maningas Cabalona   In our November issue, I relished in my accidental and planned encounters with boodle fights and how I have come to love what I would claim as Filipinos’ contribution to family style dining. Nowadays, it ...