There’s a week of winter break left, and only a few days before the year ends. So if you’re looking for something to read or watch during 2012, here are some suggestions (Asian/Asian-American in some way, of course): BOOKS Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri These eight stories by…
— Written by Deanna Hoang-Yen Tran There was a buzz around the Matrix Theatre on the opening night of the play All My Sons, written by Arthur Miller, directed by Cameron Watson, and produced by Joseph Stern. The play brought up the themes of greed and the consideration…
— Written by staff writer Grace Yim The University of California Regents meeting on November 28th was accompanied by the small but loud and pasionate student protesters. UCLA graduate student Jason Ball says protesters are expressing outrage over UCLA budget cuts and fee hikes, bank bailouts and economic…
When I first started reading comics in the summer of 2010, I was expecting comics to possess the same quality that most popular media in my life did: a lack of diversity. Despite the abundance of color in life, and the varied axes on which people live, it…
NOTE: John Ohashi was one of the founding members of Pacific Ties in 1977. Part of his interview was featured in this quarter’s print issue. The rest can be found here. PACIFIC TIES: I heard we were a group founded on advocacy. JOHN OHASHI: I don’t know about…