Coming soon to WE tv (and the U.S. market) is a new unscripted show, Family Restaurant, which features the Quon family and their daily trials and tribulations behind running their family-owned restaurant, the Lingnan. The restaurant, located in Edmonton, Alberta, has been serving Cantonese and Szechuan cuisine since 1947.
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James Lim is the Executive Director of the Philippine International Aid, a non-profit organization based in the Bay Area that provides assistance in the areas of shelter, rehabilitation, education, health and nutrition, assimilation and livelihood programs to disadvantaged youth in the Philippines and in the Bay Area.
The first Filipino-American general manager in San Francisco, James Tecson Lim was born in the Philippines of Chinese and Spanish ancestry. For years, James has been very active with various organizations that help the youth in exploring career options. He served as an advisor in the Travel & Tourism Advisory Board of San Francisco Unified School District where he helped introduce the hospitality industry to high school seniors.
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From Phoung Ly for an article at Poynter.org: “Is it time to stop using the term “minorities”? The word has long been used to describe people who are not white. But changing demographics make the term outdated and oxymoronic. [...] Wordsmiths aren’t the only ones interested in this issue. In 2001, the San Diego City Council voted to ban “minority” and “minorities” in all official city documents. Terms like “underserved,” “people of color” or specific ethnic identifiers are used instead.” Does the word, like San Diego city officials claim, implies “being minor and inferior,” or is this a case of political correctness gone awry?
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I’ve seen trailers for the upcoming movie Rise of the Planet of the Apes, but have mostly seen James Franco in them and didn’t even realize that Freida Pinto, of Slumdog Millionaire fame, was in the film and is lovely than ever. What was interesting to learn was that all the apes and chimps in the film were computer generated acted through motion capture. The only real animals in the movie were your every day dogs and cats. The film looks interesting and hopefully is better than the 2001 remake of The Planet of the Apes.
While our Asian American Commercial Watch is usually relegated to hot girls on Target commercials, sometimes we write about other Asians in 30 second TV spots who catch our eye… because they look so familiar. Take this promo for Asian American cable channel MYX TV, for example. Haven’t you seen him before? I swear to god, I know this Ernie guy from somewhere but I can’t figure out where. And the baby eating thing sounds really, really familiar, too. I met someone once who ate babies. I think he used to troll our interracial dating posts. Help?
(UPDATE FROM ERNIE: In all seriousness, 8Asians will be partnering up with MYX TV offering exclusive content for its website very soon. MYX TV can be seen on Comcast’s Digital Preferred Tier in the San Francisco Bay Area, Central California and Chicago, Cox Digital Basic Cable in Orange County and Northern Virginia, MCV Cable in Guam and RCN in New York City, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, DC. It’s also available nationwide on DirecTV.)
Our internal e-mail lists have us discussing all kinds of stuff: Asian American identity, representation in the media, the experiences of activism in an academia setting and its progression as we transition to the working, adult world. And sometimes, we talk about driving tests at the DMV.
Inspired by a local news article about “Scary Larry” Chan retiring from the Pleasanton, California DMV after terrorizing tens of thousands teenagers and newly American immigrants from possibly withholding their gift of driving an automobile, what is essentially the most American of freedoms. (What did you think I was going to say, “voting?” Fuck that.) See which one of us passed our courses the first time, and see who is still reeling from the scars of their traumatic experiences at the Department of Motor Vehicles after the jump!
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From Coming Soon: “CJ E&M Pictures and Grapevine Entertainment have just announced that Rob Cohen (The Fast and the Furious, XXX) will direct a Korean War epic entitled 1950 … Marguerite Higgins, the Tribune’s then Far East bureau chief, who had covered the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps at the end of WWII, initially found herself banned by the US Army top brass from covering the Korean conflict, simply because she was a woman. Her persistent efforts to overturn this ruling eventually won her special permission from General Douglas MacArthur to work alongside the front line troops … 1950 follows Higgins’ journey across the Korean peninsula with a platoon of marines, ending with the mass evacuation on Christmas Eve of nearly 200,000 South Korean civilians escaping the oncoming Chinese and North Korean armies.”
I’m excited to see this story on the big screen, and although I don’t know Higgins’ piece in it, I’m interested in her perspective, particularly because she is a female journalist. As always, there’s always a question in my mind about the Western bias that will be inevitably present in the film, so I’m curious to see how that will play out, too.
I was trying to think of an Onion-like headline when I came across a New York Times article describing the last minute negotiation session by the House and Senate to avert the debt limit crisis:
[Senator] Mr. McConnell, meanwhile, spoke three more times that day with Mr. Biden. That night he strategized with his staff between a series of phone calls, including one with Mr. Boehner. The group ordered Chinese food, and laughed when one fortune cookie advised: “You may be spending too much money.”
Of course, with every fortune you receive you have to add, “in bed.” Yes, the U.S. is in bed with the Chinese. If you didn’t know, China is the United States’ largest creditor (how ironic given that it is still governed as a Communist country) holding over $1.15 trillion of our total $14 trillion in debt.
UPDATE 8/5/2011: Congrats to our winners: Bad Bunni and Lou Hernandez!
Coming just a week after holding their Obon Festival event, Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple will be hosting the summer’s big Tuesday Night Project (TNP) concert: J-Town Summer Sessions (JTSS).
In partnership with Glenn Suravech Mosaic Sound Recordings and Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple, TNP presents: J-Town Summer Sessions: A Live Concert Recording and Celebration of Art + Community on August 6, 2011. The event will take place at the Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple, 505 East Third Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013. J-Town Summer Sessions will celebrate Tuesday Night Project’s thirteenth year of its 1st & 3rd Tuesday Night Cafe free public arts series with a concert featuring a number of musical artists from the Asian Pacific and Los Angeles community. In addition, music producer and recording engineer Glenn Suravech will be doing a live recording of the J-Town Summer Sessions concert and producing tracks of select pieces from each artist.
Hosted by Keiko Agena, Aaron Takahashi, and Jenny Yang, the program features musical artists:
- Andrew Figueroa Chiang and the Blazing Rays of the Sun
- Connie Lim
- Dawen
- Jane Lui
- Lindsey Yung
- Mista Cookie Jar
- Shin Kawasaki
- SKIM
Plus, the event will feature visual artists and other vendors galore!
Tickets are now available at Brown Paper Tickets! Buy your tickets during the presale (Presale: $20 General Admission, $15 Student/Senior(60+)) and save yourself $5 versus pricing at the door (At the door: $25 General Admission, $20 Student/Senior). But either way, bring your kids, because 12 and under = FREE! Presale ends at 11:59pm on Thursday, August 4th, but 8Asians has some tickets to giveaway if you act fast!
Ok, ok, you just want to know how to win the tickets? Read on!
By Monica Tan
Yesterday while in Beijing’s expat district Sanlitun, I proposed a theory to my hairdresser. The reason why there were disproportionately so few Chinese men with foreign women couples is that the same distinguishing features about Asian people that make Asian women so attractive to foreign men: they’re smaller, softer, and sweeter – are the same qualities that unfortunately render Asian men unattractive to foreign women.
Many of the qualities of Chinese culture, when placed side by side with Western culture, are feminine in nature: the modesty, the submissiveness, the importance placed on harmony, family and community. Western culture, and by extension Westerners, are comparatively more independent, assertive, exuberant and into violent, team sports like American football. American football will always symbolize the West for me. The game blazes and roars in a way that makes it the last thing I can ever imagine any Chinese people ever taking up.
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When the war ended, my grandparents requested that they not be sent to Japan, despite the fact that they had renounced their citizenship. However, once a person willingly gives up their citizenship, it’s not easy to get it back. The following is the end of a FBI report on whether the family should be allowed to stay or not.
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