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- Update: Military Board Says Lt. Dan Choi Should Be Discharged 9:28pm Jun 30
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Hyphen magazine issue #17 release party tonight at 111 minna, san francisco. featured performers are iLL-Literacy, jane lui, mandeep sethi & povan and neko punch with DJ’s citizen ten (change the beat, SMT), maliciouslee (golden age with appearances by do d.a.t and isis g), dj franchise, and mothership! http://tinyurl.com/noabbf
Hyphen magazine don't subscribe to our e-newsletters? you should, and can on our website! in the mean time, here's the latest on winning free tickets to happenings in the community. http://tinyurl.com/ma7s29
Here's the speech Army Lt. Dan Choi gave on Saturday at the Pink Triangle unveiling ceremony in San Francisco as part of Pride weekend activities. Choi is an Iraq war veteran, Arabic speaker and West Point graduate. Sounds great...
Uh ... was anyone actually suggesting that Obama invade Iran? I mean, other than crazy mans on da streets?Because (m)O('bettah)bama is the very opposite of a brutal regime dictator tyrant evil axis thingie. (m)O('bettah)bama is good. It is Ahmadinejad who is brutal 'n' evil. And Kim Il thingie...
Calling it a setback and "an opportunity to keep fighting," Lt. Dan Choi faces discharge from the Army National Guard for violating the "don't ask, don't tell policy" for gays and lesbians in the military...
Source: www.nytimes.com
Dr. Gary D. Kao, accused of mishandling treatment for prostate cancer, spoke before a Congressional panel.
Tuesday June 30th -- San FranciscoGoh Nakamura and Jane Lui ShowBay Area singer/songwriters Goh Nakamura and Jane Lui will be teaming up for a special performance with plenty of banter, crooning and...duets!7 to 11 pmCafe du Nord2174 Market Street, San Francisco$ 10 at the door or tickets here ...
Wednesday June 24th -- NYCWriting and Tactics From Bangladesh to BurmaTaslima Nasrin and Ma Thida, two medical doctors and activists involved in social movements in Asia, will speak about their writing and the tactics that have enabled them to do so despite death threats, imprisonment, and exile...
Attendees of this year's Frameline San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival will be able to catch a screening of Fruit Fly: the newest film written, directed, composed, edited, and probably catered by H.P. Mendoza, he of Colma: The Musical fame...
Photo source.A new study shows that sex selection is creeping into Asian American communities. Prof. Lena Edlund of Columbia University ... and her colleague Prof. Douglas Almond studied 2000 census data and published their results last year .....
Currently making the rounds and garnering rave reviews at film festivals is Lee Isaac Chung's Munyurangabo, a tale following the eponymous hero's mission to avenge his father's death with the help of his friend Sangwa...
Tuesday June 15th -- NYCNovels of Heartbreak and FollyRomesh GunesekeraBooker prize finalist Romesh Gunesekera will read from his most recent novel The Match, about a Hamlet-esque Sri Lankan cricket player on a mission to find love...
A picture is worth a thousand words, but images wherein the subject expresses complex human emotions via maxillofacial/upper extremity juxtaposition is worth at least 2,500 words. This website seeks to illuminate and enumerate the apparently dozens of ways we Asians pose...
Hyphen magazine we're collecting tributes to elders in our community who have passed: http://tinyurl.com/ncwrwk
We've collected remembrances of some of the great people who've passed recently: scholars Ronald Takaki and Him Mark Lai, civil rights activist Richard Aoki, poet Al Robles, and judge Sandra Otaka. See the remembrances here. If you've got one, feel free to post a comment bel
For news and conflict junkies, and those of you who are just wondering what the hell's going on with the post-election protests in Iran, the BBC offers this round up of places to go on the web to follow along.Exhiliratingly, and exhaustingly, Ahmadinejad's government is playing "whack-a-mole"...
Photo credit.Missed this one a couple weeks ago:A new study from the European Union shows that ethnic profiling in police stops doesn't help catch terrorists...
Hyphen magazine "the uc administrator told me that asians are 'too dull – they study, study, study.' he then said, 'If you ever say I said this, I will have to deny it.'" http://tinyurl.com/myybjs
Judd Apatow is taking an interesting -- and to some, confusing -- approach to marketing his upcoming film Funny People, starring Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen. Apatow and Co...
In The Brothers Bloom (released May 29, 2009), Rinko Kikuchi is luminescent, pitch-perfect...and silent.Her character's name is Bang Bang, and supposedly Bang Bang can't speak English. However in the film she understands everyone, even though she speaks to no one...
Hump Day comes and Hump Day goes, but the bridge into the weekend can feel seamless this time around with the help of the IndioBravo Filipino Film Festival...
Whoa. I feel so out of the loop. But seriously, who is this dude?Nerd dance talk here: his technique is flawless. I'm so bummed that I won't be seeing him compete due to contractual obligations with Miami City Ballet (yes he's a professional ballet dancer), but way to represent Alex!
Tuesday June 9th -- NYCLOLcats with Ben HuhImage courtesy of Asian American Writers' WorkshopKum lizzens tooz Ben Huh, the mastermind behind LOLcats. The Pet Holdings CEO's book A LOLcat Colleckshun, based on his website I Can Has Cheezburger...
The Honorable Sandra Otaka, the first Asian American appointed to the bench by the Illinois Supreme Court, and a longtime advocate for the community, passed away on June 6 of natural causes...
Current TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were sentenced to 12 years in a labor prison. The pair had been arrested in March by North Korea on charges they illegally entered the country...
Hyphen magazine slanty-eyed sotomayor as buddha on cover of national review. WTF? http://bit.ly/nrcvr
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Oh, man. As if we needed another reminder as to why cartoon art is a medium that can be used for evil as easily as good, here comes another in a long series of racist National Review covers trafficking in Asian stereotypical imagery. More on this later. For now...I'll let the image spaek for itself.
In his latest piece at SFGate, Asian Pop columnist Jeff Yang wonders if the term Asian American has relevance in today's world. Activists began using "Asian American" during 1960s civil rights movement as a way to forge their own identity in a society that considered them orientals and outsiders...
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