Bobby Reyes resumes a column that he wrote in the late 1980s for the then Southern California's Philippine Journal magazine and its sister publication, the Manila Standard newspaper (Los Angeles edition). He called his column, "Unsolicited Advice."
"I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.' "--Richard Jeni