This being an important election year, there's been a lot of talk about the growing influence of Asian American voters and the important...

Rocky Aoki, founder of the ubiquitous Benihana Japanese steak house chain in North America, died last week in New York. He was 69: Benihana...

The following email was sent to the organizers of the U.S. Air Guitar Championships by Francis Hsueh, who attended the Brooklyn Regional la...

Next month, tourists from all over the world will visit Beijing for the Olympic games. I'm sure many fearful and reluctant foreign dine...

The Sacramento Bee has another good article on the many Japanese Americans who played baseball in internment camps during World War II: Cal...

Bay Area friends, mark your calendars... here's another cool event for a good cause. Over twenty community and professional organizatio...

The Center for Asian American Media has narrowed down the pool of contestants for the Toyota Matrix Free Your Story Contest to seven semi-f...

The 5th Annual 72 Hour Film Shootout Awards are happening today, 12:30pm at Asia Society in New York. The Shootout Awards are presented wit...

John Woo's long-anticipated epic movie Red Cliff opens this week in Asia. It's been a long, hard road for the project from the sta...

This week at the Television Critics Association Press Tour, Margaret Cho talked to reporters about her upcoming "semi-scripted" c...

Phil informs me of the L.A. History Project , six new plays about the city of Los Angeles and its rich history. Presented by Edge of the Wo...

Not the strongest week for America's Best Dance Crew . Most of the teams did decent jobs, but ultimately the speed-up challenge tripped...

This week in Atlanta, a Pakistani man was charged with killing his daughter because she wanted out of an arranged marriage: Dad charged with...

Damn, now that is a beautiful man. Takeshi Kaneshiro is the new face of Armani. The half-Japanese, half-Taiwanese heartthrob will reporte...

At some point, we've all gotten a kick out of sites like Engrish.com, which point out examples of poorly executed English signage in Asi...

My man Tak Toyoshima, the guy behind Secret Asian Man , could use your help. The San Francisco Chronicle is currently running a vote, aski...

Lots of folks writing in to tell me about Katee and Joshua's Bollywood-inspired routine last night on So You Think You Can Dance . Ver...

ABC News has a really interesting story on Tony Hsieh, the CEO of online shoe retailer Zappos: Shoe-ing Away Convention . The company, head...

In Monroeville, Pennsylvania, and Indian American restaurant owner is claiming that the city council has been biased in its consistent denia...

Next week, ImaginAsian presents the Los Angeles premiere of Mighty Warriors of Comedy , Sung H. Kim's Emmy-winning documentary about the...