The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco hosts the Preview Opening Gala of the Arts of Pacific Asia Show to support the museum’s education department and its various programs Thursday, February 1.
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This article in today's NY Times, Truly Indie Fans, really gave me warm fuzzies. It looks at the increase in African American indie rockers and skateboarders and the like. Granted, the article doesn't mention Asian Americans at all, but the issues it addresses, such as ethnic stereotypes where music (and the attendant lifestyles) are concerned, are useful in thinking about our own issues. I'm especially thinking of certain comment threads on this blog that have discussed the place of Asian Americans in hip hop.
The story portrays people who dared to cross over to where they were least expected, withstanding judgements from both sides of the ethnic fence, facing isolation and building their own community. For music.
Hell yeah.
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Justin Lin's and Steven Okazaki's newest films.
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Lieutenant Ehren Watada is a dude with some guts. He's defied the last institution you'd ever want to piss off: the US military. He's done the thing they probably fear most of their troops: he's refused to go to Iraq.
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Racism on Britain's reality TV "Celebrity Big Brother" sparks international row with India
By Sonny Le, Hyphen Advisory Board Member
The celebrity-edition of "Big Brother" on Britain's Channel 4 seems to have reveal the ugliness of British society when three white contestants ganged up on the Bollywood-star member of the house, Shilpa Shetty.
The invectives hurled at Shetty, especially from Britain's trash-talking darling of reality television Jade Goody, ranged from calling her a dog and telling her to go back to India, have yielded at least 20,000, at last count, complaints to Ofcom, Britain's broadcasting regulator, the FCC counterpart there.
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So, for a couple months out of the year, my other unpaid job besides Hyphen is curating a film festival in my hometown, Houston. Slant: Bold Asian American Images features an eclectic mix of short films (30 minutes and under). Some of the filmmakers we've featured like Greg Pak, Alice Wu and Michael Kang have gone on to make notable feature length films ("Robot Stories, "Saving Face" and "The Motel," respectively). This will be our 7th year and I'm starting my search for films again, so if you know of anything good, let me know!
We're a small festival, but we're unique in that we don't charge an entry fee and we pay the filmmakers who get accepted. To find out more about what we're looking for, please visit the website of our host venue, the Aurora Picture Show. Postmark deadline is March 1st.
In other film news, the Northwest Asian American Film Festival kicks off next week. Seattle people, it's January 25-28th. Get your tickets now on the site.
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Native Guns, a hip-hop trio including two pinoy MCs (Kiwi and Bambu) and DJ Phatrick, is one of five finalists in an online "decent exposure"-for-a-band competition.
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Our friends at Third Thursdays in San Francisco are putting together an interesting panel this week (can you believe it's already the third Thursday of January?!) entitled "How I Helped Save the World."
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I apologize in advance, because this blog posting was written in anger. I was so angry about this last night I started to cry --I'm so angry it's hard to get the words out.
And I apologize, because this isn't a specifically Asian American story. But it's about the fight that we face, nonetheless.
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Just watched Air Guitar Nation last night at a sneak peek screening for the SF International Asian American Film Festival.
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There’s been a lot of depressing news in the world of independent media these days, well print indie media at least. Independent magazines have been folding left and right.
After 7 years of publishing and 38 issues, the radical, activisty Clamor has shut down.
Another lefty mag, Lip is selling its last issue this winter after several years online and in print.
In December, our friends at the artsy KitchenSink in Oakland announced they are closing shop after their 16th issue, though they will continue to do other work under the nonprofit organization they founded.
And last week, the Independent Press Association died. Most of you probably don’t know what the IPA was. But for those of us in the indie mag business, it was a place for all us maverick, unconventional magazines to come together and figure out how this publishing thing works.
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Iwao Takamoto, who learned about illustration in a Japanese internment camp, died Monday at 81. He was best known for creating Scooby-Doo, an animation staple for generations.
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Tennessee Titans offensive coordinator Norm Chow is being considered for the open head coaching job with the Arizona Cardinals of the NFL.
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