Posts by tincan
activist imagination. & irrelevant side notes.
in what could be considered a response to (or therapy for dealing with) the myth/existence of the apathetic asian american*, the venerable Kearny Street Workshop (an asian pacific american arts nonprofit based in san francisco) is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year, and one of its 35th anniversary programs, Activist Imagination, kicks off tonight at the Manilatown Center International Hotel in San Francisco’s chinatown. Wah! how exciting. as an arts organization, KSW is rooted in [...] Continue »
implicitly asian. and stuff about voting.
While searching for information about voting activity by race & ethnicity in california (an activity itself spurred on by hearing a radio discussion about ethnic groups being underrepresented at the polls–yeah, i know, not exactly the biggest surprise ever, but i was wondering exactly what the disparity looked like on paper), I came upon the home page of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, which announced that AALDEF had just (yesterday) filed an [...] Continue »
Louderfasterfunnier: 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors comedy show in LA
i’m posting about this primarily because i don’t think i can make it to the show myself, so i’m hoping to live vicariously through some other people who can actually check it out. said show is louder! faster! funnier! and i haven’t seen it or read any of it, but based on the excellent use of exclamation points in title, coupled with track record of the 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors — the sketch comedy group [...] Continue »
equal opportunity goodness
just read this NYT article, “the new affirmative action,” written by David Leonhardt, about how UCLA is dealing with fallout of prop 209. for context, it starts out with describing the situation UCLA found itself in after prop 209 passed: The changes on U.C.L.A.’s campus were hard to miss. In 1997, the freshman class included 221 black students; last fall it had only 100. In the region with easily the largest black population west of [...] Continue »
oh happy day: goh nakamura & dino ignacio
i am so pleased to have discovered today that two of my favorite people and artists–ridiculously talented & skilled singer-songwriter Goh Nakamura & equally endowed artist/animator Dino Ignacio — are working on a new animated video of Goh’s song “embarcadero blues.” oh happy day. i am exceedingly excited to see the final product; but here is a rough cut of it in the meantime: while i’m on the subject, if you want to catch the [...] Continue »
commemorate, bitches: i-hotel home week
as some of you gentle readers out there are perhaps aware, august 4th of this year marks the 30th anniversary of san francisco’s chinatown/manilatown I-Hotel eviction. today, july 26th, starts off the week dubbed “I-Hotel Home Week” by the Manilatown Heritage Foundation, and what better way to start off the somber (yet festive!) commemorating than a (H)API hour happy hour featuring performances (irreverent and/or irrelevant, you be the judge) by standup comics who were being [...] Continue »
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