Hyphen magazine - Asian American arts, culture, and politics

Here be stuff, inna bag:

• Jim Kelly, martial arts master and Bruce Lee's co-star in Enter the Dragon, is interviewed at Wondercon. He talks about Lee's racial troubles in Hollywood.
• Fil Am Melissa Ann Apuya, 24, is running for Democratic County Central Committee in San Francisco. She represents the rising generation, and will be interesting to watch for that reason.
• Speaking of which, is the DCCC in Hawaii trying to defeat a Democratic woman candidate who is the first Asian American woman to preside over a state legislative chamber ... in favor of a white man?
• A morally-fallen Tiger Woods returns to professional golf to make the current PGA showdown one between an Asian, and an Asian American.
• Did you know that Malcolm McClaren's life partner was Korean American? Whatever, just my way of working an R.I.P. into Hyphen blog.
• An Indian American was given 81 months (almost 7 years) in prison for a medicare scam that cost the government over $8 million.
• India is pushing for Pakistani American alleged terrorist David Headley's extradition.
• Iranian American Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh was released temporarily from an Iranian prison for the New Year celebrations, after paying nearly $1 million bail.
• The producers of reality TV nightmare The Jersey Shore are looking to cast The Persian Version.

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• Obama names Indian American to White House bioethics panel.
• Profile of Oakland A's catcher Kurt Suzuki.