May 14, 2009
Win a Ticket to the Maker Faire Bay Area
Hyphen and
Maker Faire, the world's largest DIY festival celebrating creative innovation, invite you Hyphenites to share your answers to "What would you do to reMAKE America?"
10 lucky readers with the most intriguing and thoughtful answers
will receive one free weekend pass (worth $50) to this two-day extravaganza where entrepreneurs, risk-takers and artists collide amidst flamethrowers, indie fashion, rock bands, and rockets on May 30 and 31.
Email your groundbreaking answer to han(at)hyphenmagazine(dot)com by: Friday, May 22, 2009. Please also include your name, age and mailing address in case you win the prize.
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April 30, 2009
The World's First Sikh Supermodel?
The difference a year makes. One year ago, Hoboken-area Sikh entrepreneur Hansdip Bindra
made the news as a victim of a bias crime when a fellow bar-goer demanded he remove his turban, and, when he wouldn't, knocked it off for him. Fast forward one year and another Sikh entrepreneur-turned-media darling, Sonny Caberwal, is being hailed for his ability to flaunt yellow, pink and green turbans with panache in campaigns for
Kenneth Cole and
GQ.
News outlets such as the UK Telegraph are
anointing him as "the world's only Sikh professional model." Is he?
I doubt it. The Sikh community is a strong (and apparently fashionable) one, and Sikh models abound within the community
if you know where to look.
But if you don't, or prefer not to see them, such as the people behind major fashion runways who specialize in
one-color-fits-all fashion shows, then Sonny Caberwal (now signed to modeling agency BOSS) can seem like a wonder.
Let's hope he's not a one-hit wonder.
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March 30, 2009
Checkout Hyphen's Six in the City Party Photos
A big thanks to everyone who came out to Hyphen's sixth anniversary party on Friday night at Club Six. We had a great crowd, great music, great fashion show and great cake.
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January 20, 2009
Inauguration Week Linkfest
Too many events and stories to round up on this historic day -- below
is a short list of all things political (and tangentially political):
(Photo taken in San Francisco, where folks replaced Bush Street signs with Obama ones. Photo courtesy of 0x000org. Some rights reserved.) - Former Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki was confirmed today as the head of the Department of Veteran Affairs under the new administration, vowing to better care for wounded, homeless and unemployed veterans. Shinseki, the highest-ranking Asian American in military history, famously predicted in 2003 that a post-war Iraq would require more troops than the Bush administration had anticipated. (Despite being dismissed at the time, he was inevitably proven right.)
- Along with Gen. Shinseki, five other Obama cabinet members were sworn in today, including Secretary of Energy Dr. Steven Chu.
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January 13, 2009
Slumdog Sweeps, Hollywood Still Sucks and Hot Fair Trade Fashion
With
Slumdog Millionaire sweeping the box office AND the
Golden Globes, I guess South Asians are in line to be the ethnicity du jour again in 2009. Of course, I thought the movie was wildly entertaining, and gave a
City of God glamour to the slums of Mumbai. (Suck this,
City of Joy.) And seeing Bollywood superstar
Shah Rukh Khan make an 11th hour appearance to present really made it seem like Indian film had arrived.
But my champagne-fueled, Desi pride just couldn't get it up to full joy because where were the Asian Americans? But forget that even, where were the black people?
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December 9, 2008
Melissa's Crafty Holiday Gift Guide
I'm not going to lie. I like stuff. I like getting it and I like giving it. As much as I can bravely plow through a mall during the holiday season ('tis the Hong Kong heritage in me), it's more pleasant to buy artist-made goods from the comfort and convenience of the Interwebs. Here're a few crafty, small-run, and indie media gifts.
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December 7, 2008
Thakoon Designs Clothing Collection for Target
Target recently announced the next designer for its limited-edition line and it's Thakoon Panichgul, whom we wrote about in issue 13. As budget fashionistas already know, the Minneapolis-based mass retailer with the hypnotic TV ads has been wooing up-and-coming designers to create limited-edition women's collections for them under its GO International label. Target gets the coolness cachet, the designers get tons of publicity and marketing, and we get facsimiles of designer goods at much cheaper prices.
Thakoon's collection drops on December 28th and let's just say that I've already marked it in my calendar.
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November 13, 2008
Desi Fashion Designer Convicted of Rape
