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Editor's Note: Mixing It Up

 

Despite the cover , you won’t find other references to manimals in...

Harry Mok | Mon, Nov 7th- 12:10pm | Editor's Note, Issue 13: Hybrid

Other: An Asian Pacific Islander Prisoners' Anthology

For years, I've been complaining that Asian American literature is either trapped in Amy Tan's mystical Chinatown or Jhumpa Lahiri's "whitewashed" suburbs. Where are the stories of the people who don't fit the narrow focus of the model...

Neela Banerjee | Fri, Feb 19th- 6:50pm | Books Section, Issue 13: Hybrid

Best of Both Worlds

For those still mulling over how to solve the perennial debate between boxers and briefs, look no further. And if you're wearing these, your partner won't either. While working a stint at Victoria's secret retail, O Boxers designer Analisa...

Rebecca | Fri, Feb 19th- 6:47pm | Issue 13: Hybrid, Takeout

Find Your Bliss

It ain't your grandma's Hawaiian quilt, but these sexy accessories were inspired by it. Raised in Hawaii, Bliss Lau moved to New York and blended island sensibility and urban details. Easy on the eyes and nice on the shoulders, Lau's bags...

Sita Kuratomi B... | Fri, Feb 19th- 6:44pm | Accessories, Issue 13: Hybrid, Takeout

Hybrid Families

No matter what your views are on adoption or the baby book tradition, one thing is certain: My Family, My Journey (46 pg., Chronicle Books), a scrapbook for the growing audience of adoptive families, fills a gap in the literature. Written by...

Michelle Koehn | Thu, Mar 4th- 10:56pm | Books Section, Issue 13: Hybrid, Takeout
Bollyhood

Bollyhood

MANDEEP SETHI may not look like your typical mixtape trading, backpack wearing, headphone rocking, hip-hop connoisseur. In fact, when people see Sethi, they see a young bearded South Asian male who wears a black turban and sports Vans shoes,...

Asiana | Thu, Mar 4th- 10:55pm | Issue 13: Hybrid, Music
Horror on Tape

Horror on Tape

HORROR IS A FEELING oft expressed but rarely defined. Entire genres of literature, film and arts have taken on this moniker, but the means of generating horror and why humans find things horrible is often left unsaid. Horror is seemingly such...

Jason | Thu, Mar 4th- 10:54pm | Issue 13: Hybrid, Essay, Film, News & Politics
Top Three: Adriane Tomine

Top Three: Adriane Tomine

More Peanuts

By Charles M. Schulz (Henry Holt & Company, Inc.)

This was a hand-me-down paperback that I've had my entire life, and I still enjoy today. This was the first work of art that I can remember having...

Adrienne Aguirre | Thu, Mar 4th- 10:54pm | Books Section, Issue 13: Hybrid
Good Cop, Bad Cop

Good Cop, Bad Cop

WRITER ED LIN has a knack for writing about characters that inhabit the underside of the Asian American Dream. In his first novel, Waylaid, the main character is a 12-year-old Chinese kid who helps his parents rent sleazy motel rooms to...

Neela Banerjee | Thu, Mar 4th- 10:53pm | Books Section, Issue 13: Hybrid, Profiles

The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam

Ann Marie Fleming's graphic novel, The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam, is a whirlwind, magical mystery tale of origin-searching. The novel, an adaptation of Fleming's documentary film, tracks her search through five continents to uncover the...

Nasia Anan | Fri, Feb 19th- 6:52pm | Books Section, Issue 13: Hybrid
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