Tag: asian american
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January 22, 2008 06:11 PM EST --
You are invited to participate in the Fiction Readers Online Book Club. Connect with Avon A fiction authors and learn about their new book releases.
Each month the group will:
1.) Give . . .
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September 27, 2006 07:50 PM EDT --
Iva Toguri D'Aquino died Sept. 26, at age 90, in Chicago. You might not know her, or remember her today, but she was a victim of circumstance who was once one of the most hated women in the United . . .
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December 21, 2006 01:35 AM EST --
Note: The article I just posted got me to thinking about a column I wrote way back in the day, before blogs were a twinkle in some developer's eye, about Asians on TV. It's posted in the archives . . .
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September 14, 2007 03:10 PM EDT --
I have always been suspicious of the words community and culture because I find myself on the outskirts no matter how hard I try to fit in. I smile when everyone is serious or cry when everyone laughs. . . .
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January 14, 2008 01:32 AM EST --
Michaela Conlin as Angela Montenegro and Emily Deschanel as Dr. Temperance Brennan in "Bones."
The best thing about DVDs is the opportunity to fall in love with television . . .
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September 23, 2008 12:52 PM EDT --
The 9th annual DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival is right around the corner. The film festival will be hosted at a variety of locations–including Red Line adjacent venues: the Landmark E Steet . . .
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September 09, 2006 07:54 PM EDT --
NOTE: This is an excerpt from the first chapter of my book, "Being Japanese American," which was published in 2004 by Stone Bridge Press. It's about the history and culture of Japanese Americans. . . .
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June 27, 2007 01:06 AM EDT --
We spent some time at the Sakura Matsuri, or Cherry Blossom Festival, in downtown Denver's Sakura Square this past weekend. It was a good chance to catch up with old friends and we ended up filling . . .
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September 18, 2006 10:53 PM EDT --
I thought Cai Boy's headache remedy was one of the most fascinating aspects in last week's Survivor. First, it seemed to work on a migraine. I've never had one (Thank God)) but I have a couple . . .
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April 19, 2007 01:19 PM EDT --
There's a fascinating discussion going around in the e-mail list for New York chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association. It began the day that news of the Virginia Tech shootings broke, . . .
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September 09, 2006 08:30 PM EDT --
Makoto Iwamatsu died in July at the age of 72, of esophageal cancer. It's a huge loss to Asian Americans.
If you know him at all, you probably know him better as simply Mako, the Japanese actor, . . .
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December 21, 2006 01:21 AM EST --
When "Survivor" announced its just-ended season, I was one of the many critics who thought splitting up the tribes along racial factors was a stupid and potentially harmful idea. After just two . . .
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April 09, 2007 02:00 PM EDT --
An immigration coalition known as the Rights Working Group held hundreds of community meetings Thursday to push for immigration reform that "restores basic civil liberties and human rights, protects . . .
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June 12, 2007 06:48 PM EDT --
It was the first time he’d seen red pubic hair, and it took a moment for him to stop staring at it and tend to the matter, literally at hand. He had one gloved finger inside the woman’s . . .
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June 27, 2007 01:00 AM EDT --
Way back in May, I didn't write about it, but I should have. In one week during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, the character played by Masi Oka in the terrific series "Heroes" helped . . .
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November 18, 2007 06:01 PM EST --
Bill Hosokawa in 2005, sitting next to a caricature at the Denver Press Club
Bill Hosokawa died of natural causes at age 92 in Sequim, Washington, where he lived with his daughter. . . .
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May 22, 2008 08:29 PM EDT --
"Taiko is more than a loud drum," says Masato Baba.
We speak about Heidi Varian's book The Way of Taiko , published by Stone Bridge Press. Varian is a disciple of Seiichi Tanaka, who . . .
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September 09, 2006 08:35 PM EDT --
The scene was surreal: I was part of a bon odori dance in the middle of the countryside, with a couple of hundred spectators -- mostly local Caucasian farm families, along with some Hispanic and African . . .
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September 09, 2006 09:01 PM EDT --
Food might be the cultural constant of the Japanese American community, even generations down the line, but language is the most important.
Without the ability to speak Japanese, we can't communicate . . .
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December 19, 2006 02:38 AM EST --
My wife Erin and I attended a networking event tonight of a new organization forming in Denver, the Colorado Chapter of the National Association of Asian American Professionals, and had a great time with . . .
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