I've been meaning to post this disturbing story for some time.
Continue reading "Asian American Woman Commits Suicide at Boot Camp"
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Would you take a class from this guy? Kal Penn in Epic Movie.
Actor Kal Penn, Kumar of Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, is going to teach two classes at the University of Pennsylvania next year.
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I have to give Center for Asian American Media and everybody involved in the 25th SFIAAFF kudos – I think it was an amazing week.
Continue reading "Where Were All the South Asian Films at the SFIAAFF?"
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So I have been thinking about what to write for this blog entry for a couple of days. As a Hyphen blogger/editor and usual attendee of the film festival, I decided to watch some screeners of films from this year's San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and blog about them.
Continue reading "Screening with Baby"
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This year's SFIAAFF features two creepshows set in the Philippines: Ang Pamana and Blackout. A fellow Hyphen staffer who had lived in the Philippines assured me one day via chat that, second to romances, horror films are plenty. "A LOT," he typed out.
Continue reading "Horror in the Philippines, Two Ways"
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So, I’m not sure if anyone watched the reality show – or docu-soap – I’m From Rolling Stone on MTV, most people didn’t.
Continue reading "Hyphy Filipina Wins Rolling Stone Reality Show"
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Anoushka Shankar talks to Mr. Hyphen (photos courtesy of Pamela Springsteen and Capitol Records)
Continue reading "Anoushka Shankar: Sitar & Beyond"
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I’ve always loved the shorts programs at the SFIAAFF. I think it is where they showcase the most exciting work being done by Asian American filmmakers. These are the films that make me think and inspire my own art.
Continue reading "The Story Behind the Shorts"
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Released in 1961, Flower Drum Song was a revolutionary movie for its time and would be unheard of if it were attempted today--a big-studio musical with a largely Asian American cast.
Continue reading "Flower Drum Song's blooms stand test of time"
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MC Hammer shows his love for Asian America and Hyphen magazine at the opening gala for the 2007 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. Hammer played talent agent Roy Thunders in Justin Lin's Finishing the Game which opened the festival. Photo by Bernice Yee
I’ll have to say, there’s nothing like a giant theater full of Asian Americans and a party with free Lychee Martinis to make you feel good about your community.
Continue reading "SFIAAFF = 2 Legit 2 Quit"
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I'm super excited to go to Saturday's panel discussion, Down and Dirty Pictures. It'll be at the Opera Plaza and starts at 1pm.
SFIAAFF is calling the featured directing trio Gregg Araki, Roddy Bogawa and Jon Moritsugu the 'original "bad boys" of Asian American cinema.' How can you resist that? I certainly couldn't.
They're to talk about their bodies of work, the role of the 'truly independent' filmmaker, and, of course, its future prospects. (What panel would be complete without a little prophesying?)
For other panel discussions, see the SFIAAFF website
Another Hyphen staffer will be going to the Ellen Kuras Master Class, which is on Sunday at 3pm, also at the Opera Plaza.
Cinematographer Ellen Kuras' laureled career has included work with Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), Rebecca Miller and Spike Lee (Summer of Sam and Bamboozled), and on films such as I Shot Andy Warhol and Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes. She'll talk about her cinematographic and decision-making processes, and colloborating with directors.
Posted by rebecca at 11:06 AM | Comments (0)
Interesting art review in this week's edition of the Houston Press (a weekly paper where I used to work): One Way Or Another: Asian American Art Now. The critic talks about a visual art show of works by Asian American artists put together by the Asia Society in 1996 and compares it to a current show (same title as the article) in the same gallery. The difference? The show from 11 years ago concentrated on themes of identity and the immigrant experience. Today, the themes don't really have anything to do with identity.
Continue reading "Art and Identity (Or Not)"
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I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats...
Buy a ticket to see this one!
Year of the Fish is a sweet, sweet contemporary fairy tale adaptation set smack dab in New York City's Chinatown.
I'll update this post with a full detailing of my thoughts soon.
Continue reading "This One Goes Out to All the Lovers: 'Year of the Fish'"
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Indonesia, where the increasingly conservative Islamist government recently passed a broadly interpreted anti-pornography bill banning acts like kissing or baring the legs or shoulders in public, is curiously experiencing a resurgence in polygamy, a practice which had gone underground during President Suharto's long tenure. Some polygamists have taken additional wives in secret, made official by clerics instead of in court, without the knowledge of their first wife. For critics, polygamists are using religion to justify out-and-out sluttery.
Continue reading "Two's Company and Three's a Crowd in 'Love for Share'"
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So, I’ve been thinking a lot about blogging and the politics around this form of journalism a lot lately, for several reasons.
Continue reading "A Lesson About Responsible Blogging"
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Well, the SF International Asian American Film Fest kicks off its 25th year tomorrow. (To learn more about the festival’s history, read Jeff Yang’s column about the fest here.) Which means I pretty much disappear for the next week, sitting in theaters.
I’m dismayed to find that some of the things I wanted to see are already sold out. So, learn a lesson from me and buy your tickets in advance. Beats waiting in the rush line.
Continue reading "Film Fest Fever"
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In today's San Francisco Chronicle, Helen Zia writes a powerful piece about the casualties of war.
Continue reading "Casualties of War"
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Sprawlingly ambitious, Joy Dietrich's feature film directorial debut Tie a Yellow Ribbon touches upon just about every young Asian American women's identity issue there is, the sum of it being that it pretty much sucks to be one.
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By William Wong
For nine years (1989-1998), I wrote a regular column for AsianWeek, the San Francisco-based weekly newspaper that bills itself as “The Voice of Asian America” but that now has egg foo yung on its face for its incredibly stupid decision to publish a racist rant (“Why I Hate Blacks”) by a young writer named Kenneth Che-Tew Eng, or as AsianWeek labels his (now former) column, “God of the Universe.”
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Imogen Cunningham portrait of Ruth Asawa, "Ruth Holding a Form-Within-Form Sculpture" (1952)
After your Friday night's carousing, shake off your hangover and go see some quality art!
Continue reading "Art Exhibitions & Events This Weekend - LA and SF: Ruth Asawa and Witness to War"
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Mr. Hyphen talks to one of the world's greatest Sarode players, Aashish Khan.
Continue reading "Aashish Khan - Sarode Torchbearer"
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The documentary begins by introducing us to Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani, an 80-year-old homeless artist in New York City, in the months before 9/11.
Continue reading "Cats of Mirikitani"
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I'm not sure there is anything that new in the "Trying to Crack the Hot 100" story in the style section of Sunday's NY Times, but it was interesting that it was in the style section.
Continue reading "No Asian Am Timberlake in Sight"
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So, there was a forum on “Ethnic Media’s Role in Covering Race Relations” Friday at the Chinese American Citizen’s Alliance in the heart of San Francisco's Chinatown.
Continue reading "AsianWeek Racist Column Spurs Ethnic Media Forum"
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In the comments on the Asian Week debacle, a commenter named Franky notes:
I read your post about Latinos calling you chinito. Just for the record that just means Chinese. When you put -ito on the end it usually is an affectionate term. I don't think you should regard that as racist the way blacks making fun of your eyes is.I was about to leave a comment in response, but thought it better to address my thoughts on 'chinito/a' separately. I spent seven years of my growing-up in Central America, as the hapa daughter of foreign service officer, with a Salvadorean stepmother and extended family. 'Chinita' became the bane of my existence.
Continue reading "On Being a Chinita"
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