1.12.2020

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An American Adaptation Of 'Parasite' Is An Offensive Way To Treat The Brilliant Original
Remaking foreign-language films in English just panders to audiences that are too lazy to do a bit of reading.

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Linsanity, A Botched Headline And An ESPN Editor's Journey To The Priesthood
Remember the ESPN editor who wrote that infamous "Chink in the Armor" headline regarding Jeremy Lin? He lost his job... and eventually changed careers. And found peace.

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Here's how HiFi, or Historic Filipinotown, got its name
At some point, Los Angeles' Historic Filipinotown neighborhood started going by a new name: HiFi.

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From Slavery to Japanese Internment: A Family Embodies What it Means to Love Thy Neighbor
"This is a beautiful story of beautiful hearts. The Albright-Marshalls found a safe space from racism to grow their families. This was a family that had survived slavery; everything else is tempered by those roots. That was the seed. They shared their food, their caring, and their love with others who came into their neighborhood. This is the history of a lineage."

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How a Japanese Family Jumpstarted Rice Farming, Deep in the Heart of Texas
Deep in the heart of Texas, Japanese migrants once brought their ingenuity and effort to boost the American rice crop, but their efforts were eventually stifled by nativism and border anxiety.

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Thousands Fly From SoCal To Taiwan To Vote In High-Stakes Presidential Election
Thousands of Taiwanese in the U.S. flew back to Taiwan to vote in the country's presidential election.

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Why I Had A Hard Time Watching American Factory
Indie film producer Karen Chien on her unease in watching American Factory:"By privileging spectacle over scenes of say labor activism, the film misses an extraordinary opportunity to create a radical solidarity."

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Issue #150: Cathy Park Hong by Ken Chen
An interview with Cathy Park Hong, whose new essay collection Minor Feelings confronts the shame, self-hatred, and overwhelming anxiety of being Asian American.

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When everything changed: Novelist Ocean Vuong reflects on a year of intense highs and lows
By his own account, 2019 was a "roller-coaster" year for poet and fiction writer Ocean Vuong.


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