Note: This quarter, Pacific Ties will be publishing online rather than in a print issue. We decided to focus our articles around war and violence in the API community. This article was written in response to The Hunger Games movie casting choices. Although the casting choices do not…

BY CAROL LEE As an avid reader and loyal fan of all literature captivating and unique, I immediately jumped on The Hunger Games bandwagon at my friends’ and even my 14 year old sister’s insistence. I found Collins’ ideas incredibly fresh and her characters poignant, especially Katniss who…

San Francisco is a world-class city that never sleeps and Chinatown is a small but lively segment of the Bay Area metropolis. On the way to Chinatown, people pass through an area called the Tenderloin, the home of various quirky and colorful characters. Tourists can find 30 blocks…

With the success of The Avengers, media consumers like myself can’t help but look to the future and think, “What next?”  Well, what’s next is Iron Man 3.  But now I’m wondering, what does the comic book industry have anything to do with Asian Americans? Unfortunately, it has…

In an email sent to contractors in the Gulf Oil Spill, BP specifically told them not to hire vessels owned by Vietnamese Americans and Cambodian Americans in the oil spill clean-up. Despite the fact that over half of the fisherman affected by the oil spill were Vietnamese Americans…

The Big Bang Theory’s Mayim Bialik at UCLA! The Regents Scholar Society Presents MAYIM BIALIK: UCLA alumna, actress, and author. May 2nd, 7:30pm, Rolfe 1200 In addition to starring and garnering laughs on “The Big Bang Theory” as neuroscientist Amy Farrah Fowler, Bialik also holds a PhD from our very own…