The new Hawaii Five-0, with Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park, will feature two of the most high-profile roles for Asian Americans on TV this fall.
As a progressive feminist-type, I am obligated first to say that beauty pageants are appalling, superficial, etcetera. As a closet girly-girl, I am fascinated by them, in kind of the same way my inner bad-ass is with tattoos. So yes, I watched Miss USA on Sunday, and it was awesome. But initially, I wasn’t that impressed by Rima Fakih of Dearborn, Michigan, who won the title of Miss USA 2010. Don’t get me wrong: she looked amazing. But what was with her weird interjections in the middle of answering her question?
Shanghai Restoration Project, with producer Dave Liang and MC Jamahl Richardson (aka Natural Fact), performed last Saturday night at the 92Y Tribeca in New York City, in celebration of the World Expo currently taking place in Shanghai.
Photobooth courtesy of Orange Photography / Event photos by JJ Casas
Thanks to all the SF party people for coming to celebrate and thanks to our collaborators for making this not just a party, but a community affair! A visual recap...
WE'RE COMING TO THE EAST COAST! Friday, June 4. The Delancey. Featuring performances by Magnetic North & Taiyo Na featuring The Home:Word House Band, Heather Park, Conchita Campos, Cynthia Lin, Sidney Outlaw, and The Misnomers.
Olympic speed skater and medalist Simon Cho was an undocumented immigrant. What do you think about that?
ABC has canceled FlashForward, the sci-fi show that starred John Cho in one of the most visible television roles for an Asian American actor in recent years.
Because rampant commentary on the Times Square Bomber still rulez, news is all over the place this week. Plus, we're waiting for primaries. But we have an Onion article! And there are elections going on here, there, and everywhere.
Well, let them get Times Square all out of their system. Here's what else is going on:
Wednesday May 19th -- Oakland
A Village Called Versailles Screening
Photo: My maternal grandmother and me in 1981
One of the reasons I wanted to learn Mandarin was so that I could converse more easily with my grandparents, but by the time I arrived in Taiwan on a language scholarship, three out of four of them had passed away. I came here anyway, thinking that if I knew more about Taiwan, I’d know more about them -- and about myself in turn.