Hyphen magazine - Asian American arts, culture, and politics

Having just survived a winter Olympics season pre-empting our favorite sit-coms, perhaps we're particularly aware of the Asian female domination of figure skating in recent years. But the US has been fielding Asian American women Olympians in...

ARISTOTLE GARCIA BARED IT ALL while winning the Mr. Hyphen competition by re-enacting Tom Cruise's infamous, tighty-whitey, Bob Seger lip-synching scene back in October. But his true colors came out when he brought his mother, 1 8-year-old...

In Zen calligraphy, the zenith is becoming one with the characters. The artist must free herself from outside disturbances. Otherwise discord will be revealed in the fluidity of the brush strokes.

The dualities of Zen principles are...

Something is happening in L.A. 

A transition. A filling of a void. An emergence of enthusiastic Asian Pacific Islander visionaries.

First spotted and coming out of nowhere is Actors at Play. They are a young collective...