Hyphen magazine - Asian American arts, culture, and politics

ALL YOU HEAR is the rhythm and rhyme. Twenty or so young folks sit huddled in small circles free-styling before the Active Leadership to Advance the Youth hip-hop workshop begins. A solid beat drops through the mini speakers. They bob their heads...

CAMBODIAN American filmmaker Socheata Poeuv's debut documentary film, New Year Baby, wowed audiences and won the Jury Prize at the 2007 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. I saw the film right before I left for a five-month...

WEED REFERENCES and extolling the virtues of female frontal nudity-exactly what you'd expect at a panel discussion about the movie Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. Throw in an exhibit hall full of fanboys dressed as Japanese elf...

PLUMES OF SMOKE usually hover over the crowd at The Independent. Sticking out might be a 6-foot-1-inch Asian American guy with a mohawk. Or, you might notice him chatting onstage with the band, or on his cell phone weaving through the masses...