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12.14.2011

guest post by oiyan poon: the college admissions debate & the asian american 1%

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Our friend OiYan Poon weighs in on the latest round of media hype surrounding Asian Americans and college admissions. This post was origin...

kal penn's next movie: harold & kumar do not go to lowe's

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I particularly enjoyed Kal Penn's tweet about Lowe's and their bonehead, bullshit intolerance: Our next movie: "Harold &...

missing: 28-year-old judy nam, last seen december 2

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Some news of a missing person in Queens... Police are asking for the public's help in locating 28-year-old Judy Nam of Flushing, who has...

yo yo ma on the floor of a bathroom, with a wombat.

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Yo Yo Ma on the floor of a bathroom, with a wombat. I started seeing this phrase tweeted and re-tweeted the other day. I thought the refe...

"lonely" 27-year-old posed as harvard freshman for months

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Asians behaving badly... fake Harvard freshman edition! Last week at Harvard University, a 27-year-old man was kicked out of a Harvard Yard ...
12.13.2011

beatrock music 2-year anniversary celebration, september 17

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If you're in the Bay Area, you've got to check out the second anniversary celebration of Beatrock Music, the independent record la...

vote for your favorite pitch in the unity new u entrepreneur competition

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Check out the UNITY New U: News Entrepreneurs Working Through UNITY fellowship competition. You can vote online for entrepreneurs of color ...

asian american 2011 rap-up by jason chu

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As 2011 draws to a close, here's a video of emcee Jason Chu looking back at the year in Asian America... in a rap: Asian-American 2011...

racist graffiti found near korean church fire

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This week in Los Angeles, authorities are investigating a possible hate crime and arson at a North Hills Korean church, which vandalized wit...

g.i. joe: retaliation trailer

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Oh hell yeah. Check out the freshly dropped first trailer for G.I. Joe: Retaliation , directed by Jon M. Chu. Yeah, the first movie was k...

new york times museum review offers possible justifications for internment?

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At first glance, Edward Rothstein's New York Times museum review of the Heart Mountain Interpretive Learning Center in Powell, Wyomin...

angry gift guide: kid's walker

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Holy crap. For my latest nomination for The Awesomest Thing Ever (international committee, are you listening?) I give you the Kid's Wa...

lawmakers condemn lowe's for withdrawing advertising from all-american muslim

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By now, you've heard about Lowe's ridiculous, cowardly decision to pull advertising from Discovery Channel/TLC's All-American Mu...
12.12.2011

visions of astropolis, december 16

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If you're in Chicago, I implore you to check out the premiere screening of Visions of Astropolis , an audio-visual collaboration betwe...

parents asked church member to discipline their kid -- with a beating

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What the hell? Last week in Irvine, California, a man was arrested for beating a teen with a metal pipe -- with the permission of the kid...

target commercial: little drummer girl

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Yet another one of these awesome nationally-televised Target commercials featuring an Asian American family front and center. This one fea...

guest post by karin chien: an open letter to the producers guild of america

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Our friend, indie film producer extraordinaire Karin Chien , whose latest film Circumstance is nominated for an Independent Spirit Award,...

chan sung jung defeats mark hominick in seven seconds

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I'll admit I'm not much a fight fan, but this is pretty sweet. Over the weekend at UFC 140 in Toronto, underdog South Korean fight...

firefighters in pearl harbor photo identified!

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Remember that awesome photo of female firefighters at Pearl Harbor? Some research has turned up more information about the photo to set the...

jeremy lin heading to the houston rockets

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On Friday, news broke that Jeremy Lin had been let go from the Warriors . That had to be rough to get cut from his hometown team, but bef...