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NPR: Long Duk Dong: Last of the Hollywood Stereotypes?

I was just driving home from work when I heard this National Public Radio (NPR) piece on (listen/read at): “Long Duk Dong: Last of the Hollywood Stereotypes?” and knew I had to blog about this right away. In “Sixteen Candles,” … Continue reading

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Conversation with Kina Grannis

A while back, I got the chance to interview the lovely Kina Grannis, on behalf of 8Asians. She is one of Interscope’s newest artists ever since winning the Dorito’s Crash the Superbowl contest. The conversation itself covers everything from some … Continue reading

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Kaba Modern from America’s Next Dance Crew Eliminated: Racial Card Played?

First, the bad news – after dancing their Asian-American hearts out on a reality show, Kaba Modern was eliminated from MTV’s America’s Next Dance Crew this week. Here’s a performance of Kaba, Fysh N Chicks and JabbaWockeeZ – the eventual … Continue reading

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Let’s help Rodney Kageyama

For a while it seemed like he was stalking us… or that we were stalking him. Whenever we would go to Little Tokyo, or if we were at some community event, or once just walking down a random street, there … Continue reading

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Margaret Cho’s Beautiful

Last week, I had a chance to go with my friend Adam to the Warfield to see Margaret Cho’s latest comedy tour, Beautiful. Margaret Cho has been on my radar for years – first as one of the first visible … Continue reading

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On fringes today in film, Asians had early pioneer

Stephen Whitty does a nice profile of Japanese-American actor Sessue Hayakawa, an early pioneer in a new medium of silent films, and one of the most well known Hollywood movie stars in his day: “Born in 1889 to a prominent … Continue reading

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Birthdays in Korea … and other dirty laundry exposed.

It should be a safe bet that those reading this blog know of the lunar calendar – not so much know its mechanics, but rather know its function with regards to important dates like Lunar New Year and the Lunar … Continue reading

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Kaba Modern’s Mike Song

America’s Best Dance Crew… Best show EVAR! At least in my opinion. If you haven’t seen the show, where in the world have you been? Okay, so our very own Ernie did a great writeup about the extremely talented crew, … Continue reading

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Wanted: Asian-American music industry

I remember long ago when I worked at an Asian North American lifestyle magazine and co-hosted an Asian music radio show the amount of CDs I would receive and cringe having to listen to in order to review them. Some … Continue reading

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March 13 – 23: San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF)

For those of you who live in San Francisco or who are in the area, this is a reminder that the 26th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF) is currently going on and runs through Sunday, March 23rd. … Continue reading

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Word of the Day: Satyagraha

“Satyagraha” is a Sanskrit word meaning “truth force.” Mahatma Gandhi coined the word to describe his philosophy of nonviolent resistance. Although he also used terms such as passive resistance and nonviolence, he created the word “satyagraha” to more accurately embody … Continue reading

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Pan-Asian Vadges

Ahh, ’tis the month that everyone and their mothers are doing their own production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues for V-Day. The Center for the Pacific Asian Family (CPAF), based in L.A., is presenting a Pan-Asian V-Day performance of … Continue reading

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