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Filmmakers Tadashi Nakamura and Yasmin Fedda are featured on a recent CNN segment called "Young People Who Rock," where they highlight people under 30.

Does Asian fetish apply to language and culture, not just romance? 

It's a lazy Sunday afternoon, my baby is napping, and I thought I'd blog today.

Hyphen's been writing tidbits about Bobby Jindal for a while, whether it's in our "Heroes/Villains" chart back in Issue 8 or blogging about him.

Lately I've been thinking a lot about the role of grandparents -- and also other extended family -- in raising a child.

So it's been, like, months since I've blogged here. Mostly because since the arrival of my little one, I've have limited time. But also, this is the Hyphen blog, and I'm thinking, my life has been revolving around this little fellow who eats/pee/poos/sleeps and hardly leaves time for me to do the same, and why would anyone here want to read about that?

I recently heard about Presidential Scholar Mari Oye. This article in the Boston Globe talks about Oye, who had the chance to meet the president.

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.

In today's San Francisco Chronicle, Helen Zia writes a powerful piece about the casualties of war.

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.”