8 Most Popular Posts (Last Seven Days)
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Asian American Commercial Watch: Liberty Mutual Insurance’s ‘First Word | Truth Tellers’
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In a Post-Apocalyptic Zombie World, Asian American Man Gets White Girl
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Asian Guys and that One Long Pinky Fingernail
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Scientists Study World Record Setting 77 year-old Runner Jeannie Rice
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8Questions: Interview with ‘Allegiance’ actor Michael K. Lee
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Review of Netflix Japan’s “Our Secret Diary”
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The Difference Between Internment Camps and Concentration Camps
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Internet Page Reveals How to Talk Dirty in Tagalog
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Author Archives: Jeff
Scientists Study World Record Setting 77 year-old Runner Jeannie Rice
77-year-old runner Jeannie Rice has broken every women’s distance world record for the 75-79 age group. Most runners slow down significantly after 70, but she has not. So when British scientists heard that she was running in the London Marathon … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Health and Beauty, Lifestyles, Sports
Tagged aging, Jeannie Rice, running
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US Chinatowns Feeling the Effects of Tariffs
US Chinatowns from Honolulu and San Francisco to Las Vegas and New York are feeling the effects of the Trump Administration’s tariffs. Many business in these Chinatowns have low margins and price-sensitive customers, and cost increases have a tremendous impact. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Current Events, New York, San Francisco Bay Area
Tagged Chinatown, Costco, tariffs
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Kaitlyn Chen Drafted by the Golden State Valkyries of the WNBA
Kaitlyn Chen was selected on Monday April 14th by the Golden State Valkyries in the WNBA draft. She was drafted in the 3rd round and 30th overall. We mentioned previously that she did not declare for the draft, but since … Continue reading
Posted in Sports
Tagged basketball, Golden State Valkyries, Kaitlyn Chen, Natalie Nakase
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Kaitlyn Chen’s Path to the NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship
One doesn’t see many Asian faces in in American basketball championships (the last time I can recall was when Jeremy Lin won the NBA championship with the 2019 Toronto Raptors), so it was a pleasant surprise to see Kaitlyn Chen … Continue reading
Posted in Sports
Tagged basketball, Kaitlyn Chen, Princeton University, University of Connecticut
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Mayor Michelle Wu Playing Rhapsody in Blue with the Boston Pops
Although this concert happened last year, I just recently saw this video of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu performing George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue on the piano with the Boston Pops orchestra. Rhapsody in Blue is a difficult piece (rated as … Continue reading
Alysa Liu Wins the 2025 World Figure Skating Championship
After retiring in 2022 and then unretiring in 2024, Alysa Liu has won the 2025 World Figure Skating Championship, which was held in Boston this year. She is the first American to win in 19 years. She is from Richmond … Continue reading
Posted in Local, San Francisco Bay Area, Southern California, Sports
Tagged Alysa Liu, figure skating, Michelle Kwan, Nathan Chen, Vincent Zhou
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Status of Laws Requiring the Teaching of AAPI Studies
The Committee of 100 recently released data and a visualization of that data on the status of laws and proposed laws and academic standards regarding AAPI subjects. This is an update on these laws standards since October 3, 2024. I … Continue reading
Purging (and Restoring) Asian American History on US Military Websites
After reading that references to Jackie Robinson, who broke the color barrier in baseball, were deleted from US Military websites, as part of the Trump Administration’s war against DEI and then restored after some outcry, I wondered if anything happened … Continue reading
The Long History of Chinese Americans in Texas and the Pershing Chinese
We have talked a fair amount about the history of Asian Americans in California and New York, but what about those in Texas, which has the third largest Asian American population in the United States? This Voice of America (VoA) … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged Chinese Exclusion Act, Houston, John Pershing, Pershing Chinese, Texas, Unassimilable
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The Accidental Getaway Driver
The Daughter asked me if I knew anything about a movie called The Accidental Getaway Driver, and I had to confess that I had never heard anything about it. Following the link she sent, I was pleasantly surprised by the … Continue reading
The Rock Springs Massacre and “The Driving Out”
When I saw this story about historical archeologists digging in Wyoming to study a massacre of Chinese residents that happened in 1885, I thought that the Rock Springs massacre was just one of a few massacres of Chinese, such as … Continue reading
Chinatown on the Jersey Shore
Chinatown on the Jersey Shore? Sounds unlikely, but for a time, there was a Chinatown parallel to New York’s on the Jersey Shore in Bradley Beach. In the late 19th century, a program now called the Fresh Air Fund enabled … Continue reading