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Is Filipino Cuisine Poised To Make It Into The American Mainstream?
Whenever I see an article like this titled “Filipino Cuisine Poised to Break through Gastro Ceiling,” I think “yet again?” Over twenty years, I ate at Cafe Glenda on Solano Avenue in Berkeley and thought, “Has Filipino food finally made it?” Efren wrote about Filipino Food becoming the In Thing four years ago. A few years later came a discussion on how and why Filipino food was unassimilated. So what’s new and different this time?
2012 Growing up Asian in American Art and Essay Contest: Bridges
Every year, the Asian Pacific Fund hosts an art and essay contest on Growing up Asian in American. 2012′s theme, in honor of the Golden Gate bridge’s 75th anniversary, is bridges. San Francisco Bay Area students from Kindergarten through the 12th grade can submit essays, poems, or artwork concerning this theme and are eligible for $27,000 in prizes. Winning submissions will be displayed at special exhibits hosted at more than 50 public libraries in the [...] Continue »
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan’s Protest Background Raises Dilemma
Jean Quan faced a tough first year as the mayor of Oakland after her controversial handling of the Occupy movement. From the New York Times: “For Ms. Quan, 62, a longtime civil rights activist and former union organizer whose husband and 29-year-old daughter participated in Occupy protests, the possibility of being undone by youthful demonstrators poses a painful paradox….’My background has made it emotionally harder’ to order police actions against them, she said. “But I’m [...] Continue »
NBA’s Golden State Warriors Waive Jeremy Lin, Picked Up by Houston Rockets!
With the delayed NBA season to start this Christmas, NBA teams have begun to re-shuffle their rosters in preparation for the shortened season. Unfortunately, this includes the San Francisco Bay Area’s Golden State Warriors waiving Jeremy Lin for their team roster: Lin’s release from the team is no big surprise. Despite the short-handed roster at camp, affordable contract, and great support from the local fan community, Lin’s release is directly related to the teams efforts [...] Continue »
San Francisco’s Chinese Historical Society of America Offers Free Admissions In December
I’ve visited the Chinese Historical Society of America museum once in San Francisco a year or so ago in Chinatown and was surprised that I had not visited it before in my 10+ years of living in the Bay Area before. I learned recently that general admissions to the museum ifs now free (courtesy of sponsor by PG&E) through December in honor of their 10th year anniversary at their current location: The Chinese Historical Society [...] Continue »
LAST CHANCE: Advanced Screening Tickets Giveaway for Takeshi Kitano’s ‘Outrage’ in the Bay Area
Hey everyone – you have just 1 hour left to enter our Giveaway to win Advanced Screening Tickets for Takeshi Kitano’s ‘Outrage’ provided by 8Asians and Landmark Theatres!
Former Olympian Dr. Amy Chow on Childhood Obesity
A few Sunday mornings ago, I was flipping the channels and came across local television station ABC7 News’s Beyond the Headlines Sunday morning program, where former gymnast and three-time Olympic team winner Dr. Amy Chow was discussing the growing epidemic of childhood obesity.
Bay Area Giveaway: Advanced Screening Tickets for Takeshi Kitano’s ‘Outrage’
A few weeks ago, some lucky 8Asians readers in Los Angeles were able to see Outrage, the new film from Japan’s legendary Takeshi Kitano (ZATOICHI: THE BLIND SWORDSMAN, BROTHER, VIOLENT COP). Now it’s time for our readers in the Bay Area to see the film! Opening in Los Angeles and New York on December 2, 2011, it stars Beat Takeshi, Kippei Shiina, Ryo Kase, and Tomokazu Miura. In a ruthless battle for power, several yakuza [...] Continue »
Prelude Norcal Hip Hop Dance Competition: A Personal Recount [PARTNER POST]
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By Denise My decision to take on the role of Company Manager for Prelude Norcal Hip Hop Dance Competition, hosted by Main Stacks dance team in Berkeley, CA, came at a time of great confusion. While all of my peers around me were focusing all their energy on locking in jobs in huge business firms, I was faced the difficult task of convincing my mother to sponsor my 3-month stay in Berkeley while I planned [...] Continue »
San Francisco’s Rose Pak Rise From Activist To Power Broker
Inevitably, when discussing San Francisco politics, one will read about a behind-the-scenes “power broker” named Rose Pak. I haven’t really blogged about her because, to be honest, I did not know much about her. Pak was one of the driving forces to get Ed Lee appointed as interim mayor of San Francisco, as well as influencing him to run for mayor, despite Lee’s initial promise not to as a condition of becoming interim mayor.
San Francisco Elects First Asian American Mayor, Ed Lee
This past Tuesday, appointed interim Mayor Ed Lee became the first ever Asian American to be elected Mayor of San Francisco. Due to the sixteen candidates running to replace departed Gavin Newsom and ranked choice voting, the final results were not made official until Wednesday. Lee, a bureaucrat and political novice when he was appointed to the mayor’s job last January, finished with 61 percent of the vote after the second- and third-place ranked-choice votes [...] Continue »
The College Admissions Game, Part 2: Race and School Selection
“I don’t want to go there – it’s too Asian!” That is the last thing I wanted to hear from the Daughter. Doesn’t she know I write for a blog on Asian American issues, and now she is going all Alexandra Wallace on me? Then again, that is a sentiment that I have heard from other Asian Americans. Just how did she come up with that opinion? Did it come from some kind of Asian [...] Continue »
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