ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

Daily TWiP - Tsuru Aoki, one of the first Asian actresses to receive top billing in an American film, born today in 1892

2010-09-09T15:41:32Z

Welcome to Daily TWiP, your daily dose of all the holidays and history we couldn’t cram into The Week in Preview. Long before the first installment of “The Karate Kid,” the American movie-going public was flocking to see movies featuring Asian and Asian-American Read More......(read more)

"India & Africa": Coltrane Tribute by Asian American Orchestra

2010-09-09T14:01:00Z

As the founder, leader, and primary arranger for the culturally omnivorous, Grammy Award-nominated Asian American Orchestra, drummer Anthony Brown is engaged in an ongoing process of re-visioning essential American musical texts from an embracing Pacific Read More......(read more)

Back on Track

2010-09-09T11:36:32Z

In the 1980s, Amos Kotomori emerged as one of Hawaii's avant-garde designers, inspired by Issey Miyake, and eager to push boundaries at a time when Asian-American artists, writers and visionaries were beginning to find their voice. Read More......(read more)

Local briefs, September 9

2010-09-09T04:43:08Z

First 5 gives money to Asian-American group First 5 San Bernardino gave $172,000 to the Asian American Resource Center at its meeting on Wednesday. Read More......(read more)

Jo Koy, the post-ethnic comedian

2010-09-08T22:07:31Z

Asian-American jokes made him famous. Now the Seattle has found a new audience poking fun at family life. Read More......(read more)

MZI Global Presents: Modern Bohemian Chic by Korean Fashion Designer Hee Deuk Yang’s at NYC Couture Fashion Week

2010-09-08T07:01:00Z

Korean designer Hee Deuk Yang is no exception to the trend in Asian-American designers sweeping today’s fashion scene with modern, Eastern flare. Read More......(read more)

Distillation of Roots

2010-09-08T01:08:11Z

Four artists examine their bifurcated heritage at John F. Kennedy University. by DeWitt Cheng Distillation: Meditations on the Japanese American Experience, featuring works by Reiko Fujii, Lucien Kubo, Shizue Seigel, and Judy Shintani, is a joint project Read More......(read more)

Exhibition chronicles the Vietnamese-American experience

2010-09-07T21:32:54Z

The Cornell and Ithaca communities will celebrate the Vietnamese-American experience with the arrival later this month of the traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibition "Exit Saigon, Enter Little Saigon -- Vietnamese America Since 1975," co-curated Read More......(read more)

Investigating The Real Detective Charlie Chan

2010-09-07T06:03:44Z

The fictional, aphorism-spouting Chinese detective is best known today as a stereotypical relic from a less sensitive time. Yunte Huang tells the story of the real man who inspired the caricature in Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective Read More......(read more)

Dance, Dance Evolution

2010-09-07T04:51:10Z

Among the dozens of dancers on stage, the three smallest ones grab the spotlight. Jeremiah Bastida — who looks miniature in his oversized white T-shirt — has been dancing with Funksters, the youth division of San Francisco Bay Area-based hip-hop dance Read More......(read more)

Most US kids see fewer food ads on television: study

2010-09-06T22:27:18Z

Most US kids saw fewer TV food ads between 2003 and 2007, but black kids were bombarded with more calorie-rich advertising than whites, a study showed Monday. Read More......(read more)

Neighbors

2010-09-04T11:12:46Z

• RANKINGS: William Liu, a professor in psychological and quantitative foundations in the University of Iowa College of Education, recently was recognized in top rankings compiled in two separate studies published in the leading academic journals Psychology Read More......(read more)

'Charlie Chan,' by Yunte Huang

2010-09-04T05:10:51Z

Charlie Chan The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous With American History By Yunte Huang (W.W. Norton; 288 pages; $26.95) Charlie Chan, the portly fictional Chinese American detective immortalized in six novels and 47 movies, starting... Read More......(read more)

Daily Dose: 09/03/10

2010-09-03T19:37:02Z

NATION >> Kimlime Check-Taylor named Assistant Principal at troubled South Philadelphia High School Philadelphia- Kimlime Chek-Taylor, a long-time Philadelphia educator of Cambodian descent, has been officially named assistant principal at South Philadelphia Read More......(read more)

Commitment: The Complete Recordings 1981 - 1983

2010-09-03T11:59:35Z

Commitment The Complete Recordings 1981--1983 No Business Records 2010 Following on from the artistic success of their splendid Muntu Box Set (2010), No Business Records has restored the only release by the ground-breaking cooperative Commitment to availability. Read More......(read more)