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Kip Fulbeck

Kip Fulbeck

WHO BETTER to be our Hybrid issue cover centaur-the mythical half-man, half horse-than writer, filmmaker, musician, professor and all-around thought-provoker Kip Fulbeck. Along with his Cantonese, English, Irish and Welsh background, Fulbeck...

Melanie | Thu, Mar 4th- 11:48pm | Books Section, Feature, Issue 13: Hybrid - Winter 2007, Profiles, Race
Lost in Translation

Lost in Translation

ON A SATURDAY MORNING in downtown Honolulu, a small group sits practicing the traditional Hawaiian art of lauhala weaving. Over a pair of picnic tables, they are cutting and intertwining the dried leaves of the hala tree to make hats and baskets...

Alex Yoshio Mac... | Tue, Mar 2nd- 1:05pm | Feature, Issue 13: Hybrid - Winter 2007, Race, Social Issues

Interrogasian

Hyphen's sensei of sensibility answers your questions about Asian culture.

Dear Interrogasian,

Why do the Chinese spit so much?

-Chan is Spitting, Frisco

Interrogasian | Fri, Oct 1st- 9:45am | Feature, Issue 13: Hybrid - Winter 2007, Interrogasian

Driven to Sing

SAYEEDA AKHTER would rather be wearing a voluminous red sari-wrapped loosely around her ample hips and puddled around her feet-to hide the pedals of the yellow cab she is driving for the day. But her crisp white polo shirt and neatly cuffed khaki...

Rosalyn Menon | Fri, Jun 4th- 1:16am | Feature, Issue 12: Transit - Summer 2007, Music

Meeting the Stranger's World

Photographer Ichiro Okada

SHE OPENED THE DOOR to her small Manhattan studio apartment, earnestly shook my hand and said, "Hi. I'm Laurel," as if I hadn't just flown across the continent and arrived at her doorstep. "Sorry it's so...

Rebecca Klassen | Wed, Feb 22nd- 5:34pm | Art & Design, Feature, Issue 12: Transit - Summer 2007

All Aboard, Next Stop Chinatown

A packed coach pulls off a Chinatown sidewalk, away from a smiling woman holding a wad of $20s. The driver, speeding down 1-95, speaks little English and turns up the volume on the Jackie Chan movie blaring throughout the cabin. A diverse group...

Gena Kiu | Fri, Jun 4th- 1:14am | Feature, Issue 12: Transit - Summer 2007, Social Issues

Asian American Manpower

 YUL KWON and Robin Sukhadia took atypical approaches to life, and both had victories in 2006 that led to profound changes.

Before Yul gained fame and $1 million by winning the CBS reality show Survivor, he worked at Google...

Jane Liaw | Fri, Jun 4th- 1:15am | Feature, Issue 12: Transit - Summer 2007, Race

Our House Stands In a City of Flowers

On the day my aunt dropped Mariamma’s baby, the man from Batu Pahat had arrived on one of his visits. He’d been sitting in his usual seat when the baby had squirmed out of my aunt’s arms and plummeted headfirst towards the...

Preeta Samarasan | Tue, Apr 20th- 12:46am | Feature, Issue 11: Faith - Spring 2007
Embracing the Stranger

Embracing the Stranger

AT THE TEMPLE on 16th and Dolores streets in San Francisco's Mission District, Robert Bernardo steps in front of the Sha'ar Zahav congregation to deliver the Rosh Hashanah sermon. He recalls the December night three years ago when he first...

Lisa Wong Macabasco | Sun, Jun 26th- 1:31pm | Feature, Issue 11: Faith - Spring 2007, Culture, Social Issues
A 4-Star Fight

A 4-Star Fight

Inside the 4 Star Theater's tiny snack counter,

Ling Liu | Wed, Mar 3rd- 10:22pm | Feature, Issue 11: Faith - Spring 2007, Culture, Film
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