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SOMETIMES peer pressure is a good thing.
For FilAm disc jockey John Banaag if it weren’t for a friend pestering him to join a local radio station contest, he wouldn’t be in the situation that he is in now.
The 32-year-old Banaag better known as DJ John Magic is the Number 1 radio on-air personality and DJ in Central California. Since joining Clear Channel KBOS 94.9 (B95) three years ago, Banaag’s Night Show has dominated the 7 pm to 11 pm airwaves.
If you’re a regular viewer of The Filipino Channel (TFC), you’d be very familiar with Jaja Bolivar, the pretty host of the popular lifestyle magazine show Adobo Nation. Before being based in Northern California, Jaja had a promising career in the Philippines as an actress, comedienne, host, and performer. She was one of the regular artists in the comedy gag show, Wazzup Wazzup, doing the character of Kikiam Defensor (spoof of Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago). Jaja has also starred in the hit series Mulawin in GMA 7, and in a couple of movies, Because of You and Kubrador. 
WHEN legendary National Basketball Association (NBA) coach Pat Riley announced Fil-Am Eric Spoelstra to coach the Miami Heat, Spoelstra became the first person with Filipino and Asian heritage to coach in the NBA.
Filipinos in the Philippines, Fil-Ams and Asian Americans in the US celebrated seeing one of their own make it to the top. They hailed Spoelstra as the first ever Filipino to make it in the NBA.
But there’s a little footnote in the NBA history that many Filipinos and people in general forget.
At the San Francisco Sinfonietta’s 30th year performance of Handel’s Sing It Yourself Messiah at the Davies Symphony Hall, one Filipino-American stood out – mezzo-soprano Kristine Sinajon.
In fact, she is the only Filipino in this production.
A few weeks before the Nov 4 elections, one of the more dramatic Public Service Announcements (PSA) shown in the media to urge people to vote had the theme, "Use Your Power." The commercial showed an outstanding Filipino comic artist at work and said, "If you had the power to inspire and to make a difference, would you use it or would you waste it and strip it away? On Nov 4, use your power and vote." The producers couldn’t have chosen a better and more deserving artist born with a great talent than Whilce Portacio.
Not many Filipinos know that their kababayan, Whilce Portacio, is the genius comic artist behind such superheroes as Batman, Superman and the X-Men. Though his achievements show that Whilce has truly used his great talent to inspire and make a difference, what is even more inspiring is the man’s resiliency and determination to use his talents, in spite of almost insurmountable odds.
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