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	‘Bollywood/Hollywood’ Celebrates Double Vision By Neela Banerjee AsianWeek In a relatively unpublicized U.S. premiere, acclaimed Indo-Canadian director Deepa Mehta’s latest film, Bollywood/Hollywood, opened at the Naz8 Cinemas in Fremont, Calif. The event was a fund-raiser sponsored by local nonprofit foundation Stree: Global Investments for Women, and benefited the San Mateo County Health Services’ program for at-risk teen mothers. A relatively new organization, Stree was founded in May 2001 by Dr. Malini Alles as a foundation dedicated to health care for women in poverty in the United States and internationally. “100 percent of the proceeds of this movie will go towards in-need teen mothers in San Mateo,” local journalist Hari Sreenivasan said in his introduction of Stree. “That’s a lot more good than if you went to see 8 Mile.” COMPLETE STORY...		A New Nightmare: Cambodian American Deportation Carries History’s Weight (Feature) Local and National Reports Document Sept. 11 Backlash (in National News) Airport Screeners Pick Up Final Paychecks (in Bay Area News) Ultimate Diversions: Inside the Twilight Zone (in Business) Mark Chung: American Soccer’s Coolest Man (in Sports) ‘Bollywood/Hollywood’ Celebrates Double Vision (in A&E) Emil Amok: APA Judge Grants Screeners Temporary Victory (in Opinion)

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Taiko Brings International Beat to Berkeley By Brian Kluepfel Special to AsianWeek The Sproul Plaza on UC Berkeley’s campus is dominated by drummers each weekend, a rag-tag and eclectic collection of congas and cowbells, bodhrains and bongos — even plastic buckets making a joyful, noisy circle. That beat was replaced temporarily this weekend by the 34th International Taiko Festival — which brought the international vision of San Francisco Taiko Dojo’s founder, Seiichi Tanaka — to a sold-out audience in Zellerbach Hall...

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