3.26.2023

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How Filipinos in the Mission Recorded the First Asian American Rock Album
In the 1970s, San Francisco rock band Dakila was the second Filipino band signed to a major label in the U.S., the first American band to record a track in Tagalog -- and the first to put their Filipino identity front and center.

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The Summer Camp
Where We Are is a series about young people coming of age and the spaces where they create community.

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The unseen Asian American mental health crisis
Asian Americans' psychological state over the last few years has been one of hypervigilance and pretending -- constantly having to act as if everything is "business as usual." But as Asian Americans across the country continue to grapple with violence, cracks are appearing in their ability to live their everyday lives.

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Abi Balingit's Cookbook Mayumu is an Ode to the Sweet Side of Filipino Cuisine
The Dusky Kitchen blogger Abi Balingit's new cookbook Mayumu: Filipino American Desserts Remixed is crammed full of recipes for sweets like adobo chocolate chip cookies, halo-halo baked Alaska, and much more.

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Beverly Soon Tofu's Monica Lee Writes the First-Ever Cookbook About a Koreatown Restaurant
Monica Lee's forthcoming cookbook Sohn-mat features traditional Korean recipes from the legendary Beverly Soon Tofu, one of LA's most famous Koreatown restaurants, including soondubu jjigae.

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Two action icons and a pop star take ‘John Wick 4' to new heights
No Hollywood franchise is doing ballistic, balletic, bone-crunching fight action better than the John Wick series — and in its newest installment, a murderer's row of talent joins Keanu Reeves to take the hit-man saga to the next level.

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How to Stay, When to Vanish
Jean Chen Ho's Criterion essay about Bi Gan's Long Day's Journey Into Night, the pandemic, her sense of time, and the ending of a relationship.


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