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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 »
NPR / KQED: Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse
As a Taiwanese American, I’m always interested in reading, hearing or watching in the American media discussions about Taiwan. So it was with great pleasure a few days ago that my local National Public Radio affiliate, San Francisco’s KQED, dedicated a whole hour show in its daily morning local program Forum on Taiwan. The segment an interview with Shelley Rigger, author and professor of East Asian politics at Davidson College and her new book, Why [...] Continue »
San Francisco Asian American Mayoral TV Interviews Online
The San Francisco mayoral election takes place next Tuesday, November 8th, and the local ABC 7 News affiliate has one-on-one television interviews with all the major candidates, with five out of the eleven candidates – Jeff Adachi, David Chiu, Ed Lee, Phil Ting and Leland Yee – being Asian American! Only in California. [EDITORS NOTE: Chinatown activist Wilma Pang, not featured in the video interviews, is also an official mayoral candidate.]
Help SF Asian Women’s Shelter win $10,000
San Francisco Asian Women’s Shelter has been nominated one of the Top 49 Favorite Charities in 7×7 Magazine. Help support their work in providing comprehensive services, including a 24-hour crisis line, shelter program, case management and access to health and legal services. With constant budget cuts, AWS needs all the support they can get. All you have to do is vote for #37 Asian Women’s Shelter – you can vote every day until Nov. 15th. [...] Continue »
Asian American Commercial Watch: MoveOn.org Ad Against Oakland Mayor Jean Quan
I was flipping through the channels the other day, and was surprised to see how quickly this ad by MoveOn.org got on the air two days later after the Oakland police crackdown on the Occupy Oakland demonstrators. Personally, I support the Occupy Wall Street movement and am certainly supportive of all peaceful expressions of free speech and the message they are conveying. I’m an Ivy League graduate with a “Top 10″ MBA, and I am [...] Continue »
Oakland High School Students Create Comic Book On Immigrant Experience
With the help of their art teacher, students at Oakhland International High School–many of whom are immigrants and learning to speak English–have detailed their experiences by drawing and writing comics: “By asking her students to create these comics, Bui is not only teaching them to tell stories through art, but she is helping them make sense of their lives and process what they have gone through. Bui has only reflected on her and her family’s [...] Continue »
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