VIA Times – January 2017 Issue Vital News, Vibrant VIews for Asian Americans in Chicago & Midwest

By: Victoria G. Smith   I bless you, and you bless me: this is as it should be. Families aren’t made by accident of birth, but by designs of the heart. Were we transient passengers in this journey, it would ...

CPRTV appearance of featured young local guest singers who were interviewed by Hosts Jovie Calma & Gerry Rebello are, top, L-R: Gerry Rebello, Myan Villanueva, Co-Producers of Estilo Filipino gala fashion show 2017 meeting held at Ginza Restaurant, Tom Padua ...

By: Ryan Tejero   Formed in October 2013 and formally established in 2014, Filipino Musicians of Chicago (FMOC) became a 501(c)4 and is organized exclusively as a charitable, artistic and social organization. The name, Filipino Musicians of Chicago, was conceived ...

By: James DC   We need to show more sympathy for these people. They travel miles in the Heat. They risk their lives crossing a border. They don’t get paid enough wages. They do jobs that others won’t do or ...

This coming 2017, six of GMA Network’s biggest stars are coming to California to bring the fun to Kapuso audiences abroad with GMA Pinoy TV’s Sikat Ka, Kapuso!, set to happen this January 22. Among the headliners is Kapuso actor ...

By: Lou Maningas Cabalona   Nothing fills the air with holiday spirit more than music and laughter in the company of friends and loved ones! Last January 8, to cap off the holiday celebration (you know Christmas ends on the ...

By: Mayra Salazar   It’s healthy to be skeptical in a world of uncertainties. Major news networks sometimes broadcast conflicting facts that require a bit of research to verify. There’s even a day in October dedicated to skeptics. So, this ...

Dear Editor, Politically Speaking: “When the Moon is in the Seventh House and Jupiter Aligns with Mars”—The Fifth Dimension Times change, people change. That’s the old adage whose luster has not faded and will always remain so because it’s a ...

By: Bob Boyer   My son gifted me with a book of three essays about the great Spanish epic, “Don Quixote of La Mancha.” He gave it to me on Christmas morning, as my wife and I celebrated the holiday ...

Rodell Rosel, a Filipino tenor and actor, in a major cast of the “Magic Flute” now showing at the Lyric Opera Chicago.