After wild dance goes viral, South Bay restaurant robot returns to its tame routine
Can't stop won't stop... the dancing robot. At Haidilao Hot Pot in Cupertino, California, restaurant-goers are reguarly greeted by a remote-control robot programmed to dance, say hi and do friendly hand gestures. But a viral video making the recently rounds shows three staffers having to restrain the robot when its dance moves get a little out of control. Someone apparently hit the "crazy dance mode" button. I don't know, I'm pretty sure this is how the robot uprising in Terminator got started.
The Sunny Naqvi case shows how outrage, politics, and incomplete information collide
"As a journalist, it’s always been important for me to center the people directly impacted by injustice and tell stories that capture their full humanity, not just ones that fixate on their trauma. So, when I opened Instagram last Friday and learned that 28-year-old Sundas ‘Sunny’ Naqvi, a U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent, had allegedly been detained for roughly 30 hours at O’Hare International Airport, I, like many others, was outraged. But, as more information about the situation has trickled out, it’s become evident the story is not as clear-cut as initially thought."
Minnesota’s Laotian refugees with decades-old convictions swept up in mass deportations
They served their prison sentences and in many cases never reoffended. They built quiet lives in Minnesota, marrying and having U.S.-born children. But many Laotians whose families fled after the Vietnam War and legally settled here as refugees -- because of history, politics and crimes they committed decades ago -- now risk being sent back to Laos, where they don’t speak the language, don’t have family, and are unlikely to be welcomed as citizens.
Walking Bruce Lee’s Oakland with Jeff Chang
Scholar and Bruce Lee biographer Jeff Chang, author of Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America, takes The Oaklandside on a tour of the sights and sites of the martial artist's roots in Oakland.
The Sartorial Is Political in "The New York Sari"
The New York Sari, an exhibition at New York Historical, reminds us that the sari is a living art form, an heirloom, a document, and a political statement in one. The show serves as a primer on South Asian history in New York, framed conceptually and visually through the sari in all its infinite pleats, drapes, and patterns.
