I was browsing the LA Times’s A&E blog Culture Monster when I saw an article about CalArts (the California Institute of the Arts) recently opening a new building called Wild Beast. The name comes from a Morton Feldman quote: “I am interested in how the wild beast lives in the jungle, not in the zoo.” Wild…
DetailsI’d heard about Secret Identities–the Asian American superhero anthology–a few times before, but I never got around to reading it until news came out that a second volume is slated for release in 2012 (the details are here). I ordered it on Amazon, read it, and loved it. It’s so refreshing to see Asians as superheroes,…
Details…ended a few minutes ago, but, er, I felt it would be better to make a late post than no post (way to make a first impression here, though, right?) Blog Action Day is a yearly event that has bloggers all around the world focusing on one issue, in order to raise awareness and promote…
DetailsFor my Ethnocommunications class, we viewed a documentary called A Village Called Versailles. One of the TAs believes that this is what opened the nation to acknowledging that a Vietnamese community exists in New Orleans. Even when Hurricane Katrina occurred, this community remained voiceless from mainstream media. Sure, Anderson Cooper covered it for a bit,…
DetailsStephen Bingcang left for El Salvador during winter break with UCLA Habitat for Humanity (H4H). He left because he wanted to help. Bingcang, a fourth-year Anthropology student, saw houses destroyed by floods and people without homes. Even though there was a language barrier, he volunteered to help build and fix these buildings. “I didn’t understand…
DetailsThai farmworkers protested in front of the Wat Thai Buddhist temple in Sun Valley on Sept. 8. Their representative spoke on what federal authorities call the largest labor-trafficking case in U.S. history. A federal grand jury in Honolulu indicted Mordechai Orian, president of Global Horizons Manpower Inc. and five of his associates for labor coercion…
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