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Oct. 5 - Oct. 11, 2001
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Dare to be an artist: young Asian Pacific Islander Americans show their true colors at KSW’s APAture.
By Yafonne
Bennett Lin and his Berkeley based Indie pop trio “The Yearlings” was scheduled to play at APAture 2001 last weekend when he ran into unforeseen circumstances. Besides having to fire his drummer, Lin’s lead guitarist Indian American Raj Mehta was robbed and beaten up at a local laundry mat that Saturday morning. “Well, he looks sort of like Osama Bin Laden. You know, with those gentle features. Maybe that has something to do with him getting beaten up,” says a frazzled Lin sheepishly back stage, one hand scratching his head.
But for all his Bambi like awkwardness on stage, Lin held his own as a soloist, and surprised the audience with a set of sensitive, dreamy folk songs that sent the girls whistling. “The Girl with the saddest smile, I’ll never find, ‘cause I learned the saddest smile, in the end is mine.” Lin sang with his electric guitar in his honey tenor voice.
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By Lia Chang
Victor Keung Wong was a fine artist, a visionary photojournalist, a consummate stage actor and a successful Hollywood character actor. Charismatic, contemplative, funny, insightful and profoundly spiritual, he was a trailblazer for Asian Pacific Islander American broadcast journalists — an APIA Leonard Zelig who traveled the currents of post-war American life: the Beat Generation, the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War Era and the Asian American movement...
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