Your Halloween Costumes 2023

Our annual gallery of awesome reader-submitted Halloween costumes.

Happy Halloween! You know what that means. Every year, I put the call out for photos of your awesome costume photos for our annual Angry Asian Halloween Costume gallery -- starring you, the amazing readers and supporters of this website. It has become an extremely popular feature, and something I look forward to sharing every year (especially the adorable kid costume photos). Please keep them coming!

Check it. Here's the first round of photos, with more costumes coming...

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Hasan Minhaj Addresses Embellished Stories Detailed by The New Yorker
After a New Yorker piece chronicled fabrications in Hasan Minhaj's stand up act, the comedian issued a video rebuttal, saying he thought "the lines between truth and fiction were allowed to be a bit more blurry" in his personal storytelling.

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Spilling the Tea
Growing up in his family's iconic Chinese restaurant taught Curtis Chin how to survive in 1980s Detroit -- and how to embrace his identity as a gay Asian American.

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‘The Golden Screen’ author reflects on the movies that shaped Asian America
Jeff Yang's new book The Golden Screen: The Movies That Made Asian America, serves as a kind of colorful mixtape examining the many works that have shaped our understanding of the Asian American community.

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Shannon Lee on growing up with her father Bruce and her problem with Quentin Tarantino
Shannon Lee, actress-turned-writer -- and daughter of Bruce Lee -- says she has never met Quentin Tarantino and 'doesn't know what his issues are' with her father.

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The Unholy Son
On searching for faith, freedom, and the love of a father.

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Constance Wu Talks Landing Her Dream Role in 'Little Shop of Horrors'
Constance Wu has wanted to play Audrey, the timid flower shop worker in Little Shop of Horrors, ever since she caught a community production of the musical as a kid. Shge's finally taking on her bucket list role in the Off-Broadway revival.

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Chargers super-fan goes viral after loss to Cowboys on Monday Night Football
Despite the Bolts' recent loss to the Dallas Cowboys on Monday Night Football, one Los Angeles Chargers fan's reaction to a game-tying touchdown caught the attention of ESPN’s cameras and now, the internet.

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A Deep-Fried Pho Sparks Scandal at the State Fair of Texas
A debate over who gets credit for inventing a dish proliferates on and off the Dallas fairgrounds.

They Call Us Bruce 215: They Call Us Albert Pyun King of Cult Movies

Jeff Yang and Phil Yu present an unfiltered conversation about what's happening in Asian America.

What's up, podcast listeners? We've got another episode of our podcast They Call Us Bruce. (Almost) each week, my good friend, writer/columnist Jeff Yang and I host an unfiltered conversation about what's happening in Asian America, with a strong focus on media, entertainment and popular culture.

In this episode, presented in partnership with the Hawaii International Film Festival, we welcome Lisa D'Apolito, director of the forthcoming documentary Albert Pyun King of Cult Movies, and Anderson Le, Artistic Director of the Hawaii International Film Festival, to talk about the life and career of prolific cult filmmaker Albert Pyun. They discuss Pyun's passion for movie-making by any means necessary, from chasing early cinema dreams in Hawaii, to breakout success with The Sword and the Sorcerer, to his ridiculously extensive 50+ movie resume stuffed with direct-to-video titles like Nemesis, Dollman and Crazy Six. Also, believe it or not: The Good, The Bad, and The WTF of the films of Albert Pyun.

This episode is sponsored by the Westside Theatre's Little Shop of Horrors, starring Constance Wu and Corbin Bleu. Use the discount code LSOPOD10 for $10 off tickets.

They Call Us Bruce 214: They Call Us Kishi Bashi

Jeff Yang and Phil Yu present an unfiltered conversation about what's happening in Asian America.

What's up, podcast listeners? We've got another episode of our podcast They Call Us Bruce. (Almost) each week, my good friend, writer/columnist Jeff Yang and I host an unfiltered conversation about what's happening in Asian America, with a strong focus on media, entertainment and popular culture.

In this episode, we welcome singer, violinist and multi-instrumentalist Kishi Bashi, whose latest project is the album and "songfilm" Omoiyari, a musical journey to understand World War II-era Japanese American incarceration, assimilation, and what it means to be a minority in America today. He talks about exploring empathy and compassion through music, drawing parallels between incarceration camps and contemporary treatment of migrants and Muslims, and finding better understanding of his own bi-cultural identity in the process.

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'Korea is hiding our past’: the adoptees searching for their families – and the truth
Amid allegations of a corrupt adoption system in Seoul that falsified children’s records, those sent to Denmark as youngsters are desperate to find out their real stories.

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I Was Told My Parents Were Dead. 38 Years Later, I Got An Email That Changed Everything.
In 2011, Cat Powell-Hoffmann opened an email from an adoption agency that changed her life.

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The Pink-Haired Secret Weapon Behind Blue Eye Samurai
Animation director Jane Wu used to hate who she was. Her new Netflix series Blue Eyed Samurai explores a warrior who also hides to fit in.

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Alice Wu's Saving Face Told a Queer Asian Story When It Was Far From the Mainstream
"Wu's trailblazing film made space for me to simply imagine a world where I could tell intersectional stories."

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The Miami Marlins' Kim Ng is the first female GM to lead an MLB team to the playoffs
The Miami Marlins' Kim Ng is the first female general manager in MLB history to lead her team to the playoffs.

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Fumi Abe Will Not Be Handing Out Business Cards
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They Call Us Bruce 2013: They Call Us Here Lies Love

Jeff Yang and Phil Yu present an unfiltered conversation about what's happening in Asian America.

What's up, podcast listeners? We've got another episode of our podcast They Call Us Bruce. (Almost) each week, my good friend, writer/columnist Jeff Yang and I host an unfiltered conversation about what's happening in Asian America, with a strong focus on media, entertainment and popular culture.

In this episode, we welcome Arielle Jacobs and Jose Llana, the stars of the revolutionary new Broadway musical Here Lies Love, an immersive roof-raising disco musical that tells the story of Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos. They discuss the unique thrill of performing in this groundbreaking, form-busting theatre experience, their immense pride in being a part of Broadway's first ever all-Filipino cast, and the complicated responsibility of narrativizing this very real history of the Philippines -- The Good, The Bad, and The WTF.