Video Shows Disturbing Attack on Asian Man

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Asian man attacked, mocked in San Francisco's while collecting cans
San Francisco police are investigating a disturbing attack on an Asian man in the city's Bayview district that was captured on video and posted on social media over the weekend, showing a group of men shouting racial slurs and mocking the victim. The video shows a man swinging a metal bar at the victim while apparently robbing him of his large collection of cans as onlookers record the attack on their phones.

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Randall Park to Co-Host Hybrid Alternative-Scripted Series 'True Story'
Randall Park and Ed Helms are attached to co-host a hybrid scripted-alternative series titled True Story at NBC. In the series, everyday Americans sit down with Helms and Park to share their most extraordinary and unbelievably true stories for the first time. As the stories unfold, a star-studded cast of comedians and actors will appear in dramatized re-enactments.

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Kristen and Bobby Lopez Reveal New Movie Musical
Kristen and Bobby Lopez, the Oscar-winning husband-and-wife duo behind Frozen, have announced their next movie musical project will be an adaptation of Jen Wang's graphic novel The Prince and the Dressmaker.

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'Loveboat, Taipei' is Getting a Movie Adaptation
ACE Entertainment, the makers of the To All the Boys I've Loved Before franchise, has optioned the rights to Abigail Hing Wen's bestselling young adult novel Loveboat, Taipei. Inspired by Wen's experiences, the story follows 18-year-old Ever Wong, who is sent from Ohio to Taiwan to study Mandarin for the summer. But what she thinks is a cultural program turns out to be a teen free-for-all that is notoriously dubbed "Loveboat."

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Lulu Wang Serves Cocktails and Answer Questions at Pop-Up Q&A
How cool is Lulu Wang? On Sunday night, the award-winning director of The Farewell served as bartender at Auburn in Los Angeles, where she served cocktails and answered questions from behind the bar for 300 guests during an impromptu pop-up Q&A.

Introducing 'Angry Asian America' on ISAtv

I'm on the YouTubes! New web talk show with co-host Jenny Yang



All right! This has kind of been a long time coming, but I'm pleased to share the premiere of Angry Asian America, my brand new web talk show with the fine folks at ISAtv. Each episode, my co-host Jenny Yang and I will be talking about news and culture from the APA community, plucking stories from the blog to discuss with special guests. For this inaugural installment, we're joined by two of my favorite people, Phil Wang of Wong Fu Productions and Jen Wang of Disgrasian. Check it out:

Saving My Mother With a Safety Pin

Guest Post by Jen Wang



Hey, folks! I'm on vacation, taking a much-needed blog break. Some batteries need recharging. But don't worry -- I've enlisted the generous help of some great guest bloggers to keep things fresh around here while I'm gone. Here's Jen Wang of Disgrasian on her mother, happiness and life-saving safety pins.

A recent study published by the London School of Economics found that happiness peaks at two times in your life: age 23, and again at age 69. My mother turned 69 this year. And she'll tell you she's happy, very happy, in fact, the exact words she used to describe herself just the other day.

This was in the same breath as her telling me that she has no energy or the desire to do anything any more, and she's worried sick about getting older. She's worried that, like her own father, she'll get struck down by a heart attack. (She's had two angioplasties in the last 20 years.) She's worried she'll have a stroke. She's afraid when she comes to visit me for long periods how far away she is from her doctors. She vows that her next move will be to a home closer to the hospital.

Sound and Fury Podcast Episode 4: Jen Wang

What's up, angry listeners! Huge thank you to everyone who's downloaded episodes 001, 002 and 003 of Sound and Fury: The Angry Asian Podcast. This has been a really rewarding new project thus far, and I've receiving lots of great feedback. Be sure to subscribe if you haven't already.

We're still figuring out a good schedule and workflow for producing new episodes, but it's coming together all right. I'm super proud to present this episode, which features a great conversation with one of my good friends and fellow bloggers, who I've wanted as a guest since when the podcast was just an idea.

So check it out. Here's my conversation with Jen Wang of Disgrasian...