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Asian Guys and that One Long Pinky Fingernail
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Asians In America: A Focus On Taiwanese Americans
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Category Archives: Entertainment
Maybe Happy Ending and Yellow Face win Tony Awards
View this post on Instagram A post shared by CBS (@cbstv) The 2025 Tony Award show saw Maybe Happy Ending and Yellow Face win 2025 Tony Awards! Maybe Happy Ending won 6 Tony Awards, including Best Musical and … Continue reading
Posted in Theatre
Tagged Daniel Dae Kim, Francis Jue, Helen J Shen, Maybe Happy Ending, Nicole Scherzinger, Tony Awards, yellow face
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“Maybe Happy Ending” nominated for 10 Tony Awards
A musical originally from South Korea, “Maybe Happy Ending” has been nominated for 10 Tony Awards. The show features Darren Criss and Helen J Shen as the leads. The musical by Hue Park and Will Aronson first debuted in South … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Theatre
Tagged broadway, Darren Criss, Helen J Shen, Maybe Happy Ending, musical, Tony Awards
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Squid Game Season 3 Official Trailer
Netflix just released the trailer for Squid Game Season 3, which they state is the final season. It will be coming to Netflix on Friday, June 27th: “Every game must come to an end. Squid Game. The final season. June … Continue reading
CAAMFest 2025 Opening Night featuring Third Act
18 One of my favorite annual events I’ve enjoyed after moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1999 is CAAMFest. Prior to 2013, CAAMFest was known as the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. This year’s CAAMFest was … Continue reading
CAAMFest 2025 Film Review: Blossoms Under Somewhere
When I read the description of this Hong Kong produced film, I thought it was interesting and also a bit odd, I will provide a Film Review of Blossoms Under Somewhere later. First, a summary of Blossoms Under Somewhere: “Ching, … Continue reading
Posted in 8mm Film Review, Entertainment, Movies
Tagged Blossoms Under Somewhere, CAAMFest 2025
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CAAMFest 2025 Closing Night with the Cast of Yellow Face
CAAMFest 2025 Closing Night screened a filming of the play, Yellow Face. It was a special evening with the cast of Yellow Face in attendance after the play’s recent nomination for three Tony’s, including: Best Revival of a Play Best … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Theatre, TV
Tagged Daniel Dae Kim, David Henry Hwang, Francis Jue, PBS, Shannon Tyo, yellow face
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San Francisco International Film Festival Premiere of ‘Isle Child’: Review and post-screening Q&A
Last year at the San Francisco International Film Festival, I got to see on opening night Sean Wang’s feature length directorial debut of Didi , which premiered at Sundance earlier in 2024. At this year’s 2025 festival, I got to … Continue reading
Netflix Japan’s “First Love”
Utada Hikaru’s “First Love” was a big hit, but it was more popular within Japan itself than anywhere else in the world. It’s a testament to its indelible place in modern Japanese consciousness that an entire Netflix produced drama would … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, TV
Tagged First love, Hikari Mitsushima, j-drama, Japan, japanese, japanese drama, Rikako Yahi, Taisei Kido, Takeru Satoh, utada hikaru
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Netflix’s House of Ninjas
Haru Tawara (Kento Kaku) refills vendings machines for a living and lives in a run-down old Japanese home compound with his motley family. Despite his father Soichi’s (Yosuke Eguchi) claims that they are a normal Japanese family, all evidence suggests … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, TV
Tagged Aju Makita, house of ninjas, Kento Kaku, Netflix, ninjas, Nobuko Miyamoto, shinobi, Tae Kimura, Tenta Banka, Yosuke Eguchi
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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
Posted in Music, Politics
Tagged Boston, Michelle Wu, overachievers, Rhapsody in Blue
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‘Home Court’ Now Streaming on All PBS Platforms
Last year, I had the opportunity to see and review Home Court at CAAMFest: “Ashley Chea is a Cambodian American basketball phenom. Home Court, filmed over three years, is a coming-of-age story that relays the highs and lows of her immigrant family, … Continue reading