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NYC Running a Breeze for Filipina

Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by .

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by Roman Espejo Blocks after the finish line at the New York City Marathon, Bernadette “Bards” Bathan flashed her unofficial time on her running watch: 4 hours, 39 minutes and 32 seconds. Sixteen minutes under her personal best. “Do you want to take a picture of it?” she asked me. Bathan, 36, and four others […]

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Saved: Notorious Nightspot Becomes a Church

Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by .

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by Roman Espejo A downtown evangelical church in search of a home has found unlikely quarters at a former dance club in Tribeca. “You have to learn the ‘I don’t care’ dance,” Pastor Dan Stratton of Faith Exchange told his congregation during a recent Sunday service. In front of a makeshift pulpit and full band […]

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