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NYC Running a Breeze for Filipina
Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by Roman Espejo.
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 Roman Espejo.
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 […]