Jeannie Suk, a Korean American, is the first Asian professor to be granted tenure at Harvard Law School. On October 14, she was granted tenure through faculty vote. She is an alumnus from Harvard Law School, and became an assistant professor at the Law School in 2006. The…

After dragging itself out of a dispute over rights to the original story, Oldboy (a Japanese manga by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya that was adapted into a critically acclaimed Korean movie in 2003), is back on track to be made into a Hollywood remake. There are three…

Not for the first time, Hollywood is planning to whitewash a movie (or several movies). All You Need is Kill, a Japanese sci-fi novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, and Akira, a 1980s cyberpunk manga by Katsuhiro Otomo, have both been picked up by Hollywood for mass-American consumption. All You…

I saw The Phantom of the Opera last Saturday. Phantom is extremely popular–the Pantages was packed on Saturday– and the longest-running musical on Broadway. As billed in most advertisements, it’s the “haunting love story of a brilliant composer shamed by his disfigurement, and the opera singer he falls…

Preliminary results on the props, according to the Huffington Post: 19: No 20: Yes 21: No 22: Yes 23: No 24: No The LA Times has projected Jerry Brown to win for governor, and Barbara Boxer for senator, which is a good thing for Democrats, because it looks…

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