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…
To start, this is a bit of an informal post about something I discovered. One of my friends commented about how all the k-pop stars look so gorgeous followed by another mentioning this thing called BB cream. So when I don’t know something, I typically open up Wikipedia and find…
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…
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…