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As Tasty as Ice Cream: Sal Vanilla does Singapore
Last week, Japanese performance group Sal Vanilla brought its Zen-infused mixed-media art to the tiny city-state of Singapore.
[inter/action] enjoyed a three-night run at Little Asia 2003, a new mini-festival that will also present Australian percussionist Ben Walsh and the country’s own Daniel K. & Co. over the following weeks. Singapore recently joined Little Asia, an […] -
Chinese Immigrants and Small Businesses Give Gonzalez a Shot
With less than one week until the election, San Francisco’s mayoral candidates are stepping up their campaigning and targeting the Asian Pacific American population, particularly the Chinese.
According to the Chinese American Voters Education Committee (CAVEC), an estimated 78,000 APAs are registered to vote in the city, with Chinese Americans making up 70 percent of that […] -
Leal Attracting Support of Women
City Treasurer Susan Leal is running in the San Francisco mayoral race as a self-proclaimed woman’s woman who is supported by female leaders and women’s groups.
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Newsom Redefines “Progressive”
San Francisco’s highest profile mayoral candidate, Gavin Newsom, is stumped. Sitting at his steering wheel and driving himself to probably the 10th function of the day, he has just been asked to tell a reporter something different and significant about himself, something that’s not in the campaign website hagiography or the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s […]
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Heavy Does It: Family-friendly Barrio Fiesta isn’t as good as mom’s
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Like a Wave: Lin Hwai-min brings “Moon Water” to the Bay Area
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
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Beyond Bollywood: 3rd I premieres the first S.F. South Asian film festival
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UpFront News Briefs
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“He comes out to California to raise money, and he never discusses his views on social issues. Who would want their community to be associated with David Duke supporters?” -
No Daly Machine Politics
Last week, an Asia trade mission benefiting San Francisco’s economy was interrupted by acting Mayor Chris Daly’s putsch. By taking advantage of Mayor Willie Brown’s absence, Supervisor Daly anointed an environmentalist and an Asian Pacific American architect to succeed two APAs on the powerful Public Utilities Commission (PUC).
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AsianWeek 2004 ELECTIONS ENDORSEMENTS
San Francisco’s Asian Pacific American community makes up more than one-third of the city’s 776,000 residents. Unfortunately, political campaigns overlook our numbers and recognize that APAs represent only one-sixth of the electorate. Since no single voter group in San Francisco comprises a majority, voters must build coalitions and forge compromises with the APA community. When […]
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Duh Mayor for a Day
Chris Daly has revived my interest in San Francisco politics. I admit, I haven’t been all that interested since I was mayor. But more about that later.For those of you who don’t know Daly, he’s a supervisor for the city and county of San Francisco who will forever be remembered for the stunt he pulled […]
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Who on the Left gets Left Out?
With mayoral candidates unlikely to draw a majority in the Nov. 4 election, conventional wisdom is that a December runoff is inevitable.
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I think college is a time for experimenting. Ignore the parents, date your girlfriend but others too.
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Guys: "Raqcoon Mammal" would appear to have squashed this nail on its hammerhead. Squarely. Well, coolly as well? MSMedia are truly passe in today's B&B, that's Barnum & Bailey, young'ns, one of whom is said to have said that "there's one born every minute," meaning "suckers" as in placebo/nostrum buyers.
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McCain's voucher plan will help poor Asian kids to escape public schools, and receive decent education at private schools, many of which are indeed "faith-based", e.
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Also, a Jewish guy's clarification of the Lafayette High School situation: Mike Berman’s Letter to AP Dear Sir: Today’s AP article, “Asian Youths Suffer Harassment in Schools” was informative but sadly misleading in one important aspect.
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Dear "observer": You are absolutely right about my personal education history, insofar as I was lucky to be one of only three? Chinese-American students at Horace Mann Grade School in San Jose, way back in the mid-'20s, Half-"right" in the ensuing fact I attended Francisco Jr.
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I have a feeling that Christian and Frank Eng went to all-white schools and don't know what it's like for Asians to attend "diverse" schools, so I post a 2005 article: http://www.
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As a reader, I feel I have joined the conversation too late to make sense of this, since it's already at the level of polemic.
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"And I understand that those Asian-Americans who do uncritically embrace racist ideas about black people usually glean them from the dominant (i.
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Jammer: You are more than "right." Your experience is, likely, not all that different from ANY suffered at the hands of bullies.
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