VHS or Beta
November 30, 2007
Post-punk, electroclash, dance punk, new wave, no wave — call it what you will: VHS or Beta front man Craig Pfunder just wants to see you dance at his shows.
As vocalist and founding member of the Louisville, Kentucky, indie rock band, Pfunder is a refreshing presence in a music scene saturated with Asian Americans quietly lurking behind the keyboards, such as Ladytron’s Reuben Wu and Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsystem.
Nice Guys Finish Last
November 30, 2007
Anthony Bourdain, chef and host of The Travel Channel’s No Reservations, thinks San Francisco is crazy for thinking that nice guys make good chefs. “I was never about Casey!” Bourdain told me at Stacey’s Books on Nov. 19. “It was always all about Hung [Huynh, winner of season three] — from the start, it was Hung all the way. He might not have had the best beginning, but in the end, he had more than others were offering.” The acerbic wit signed copies of his newest book, Without Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach, and remembered warmly his stint as a Top Chef judge, “even though the pay was s***.”
Calendar: 11/30/07
November 30, 2007
‘Turning 60 Images of India and Pakistan’
EVENT: Presented by the San Francisco Public Library
DESCRIPTION: A photo exhibition by Barbara VanderBorght and Tracy Benshoof (India), and Moazzam Sheikh (Pakistan).
DETAILS: Free, through Dec. 31,
Main Library, Café Exhibition Case, 100 Larkin St., San Francisco.
CONTACT: sfpl.org Read more
Who’s Hot:11/30/07
November 30, 2007
Friday, November 30
Meet Market Fridays by Tribeca and Beyond Entertainment
Details: Horizon Restaurant and Lounge, 498 Broadway Street, San Francisco,
10pm - 2am, 21+
Music: Hip-hop
www.sftribeca.com
‘Undoing’ movie
San Francisco Afterparty
Details: O Izakaya lounge in Hotel Kabuki, 1625 Post St, San Francisco
10pm
www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/ketih@keithpr.com/undoingmovie
Saturday, December 1
Element at Mission Rock
Details: Mission Rock, 817 Terry Francois Blvd, San Francisco
10pm - 2am, 21+
Music: Hip-hop
www.elementsf.com
Synergy Presents Lush Saturdays
Details: Boss Nightclub, 750 Harrison St, San Francisco
10pm - 3am, 21+
Music: Hip-hop
www.synergysf.com
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MySpace or MyDisgrace?
November 30, 2007
AsianWeek is proud to debut its weekly advice column, AskQ. Check here every week to see Q’s answers to your life, love, work and family questions — Q’s got you covered.
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Dear Q,
I’m a recruiter, and I go to many career fairs to talk to students. Social networking Web sites such as MySpace and Facebook can help employers get to know prospective employees in an informal light. But these profiles can also be potentially incriminating or contain things they Read more
The Good AIDS News
November 30, 2007
The good news is that UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, says there’s less AIDS in the world than they thought: 33 million infected worldwide compared to last year’s 40 million. The bad news is that critics were right to say that one can’t just extrapolate wildly high numbers on the basis of surveys of sexually active women and drug users. Now they’re surveying actual households, and they’re not finding those kinds of numbers.
Supreme Court Must Strike Down Discriminatory Voter ID Law
November 30, 2007
Imagine going to vote and having poll workers ask you to present your naturalization certificate. They say it’s required under state law, but no other voters are required to show their certificates. This happened to one voter in Flushing, New York.
It’s often because of voter ID checks that certain voters are racially profiled. Just like African American and Latino voters in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004, Asian Americans have to overcome discriminatory barriers to exercise their right to vote.
Read more
Letters to the Editor: Nov. 30 - Dec. 6, 2007
November 30, 2007
Hypocrisy by The Numbers
I was taken aback by Dr. George Koo’s calling American criticism of Chinese human rights abuses “hypocrisy” (“Yahoo Takes Hit Meant for China,” Voices From the Community, Nov. 23).
By any objective measure, China’s human rights record is much worse than America’s. Look at rankings of freedom of the press, a basic human right as defined by the United Nations. Reporters Without Borders ranked the U.S. as number 44 in terms of press freedom; China was number 159, the eighth worst in the world. Read more
Qs for Q
November 30, 2007
Qs for Q
Dear Q,
I have all these questions about life, love, work, family — but every time I read advice columns, it is from a white person’s point of view, which just doesn’t help me at all. Sometimes, I can’t just talk to my parents about things because of the language barrier. Sometimes, I just can’t be assertive with my boss because I was raised to respect my elders. Sometimes, I find myself falling into the passive Asian woman stereotype, and I don’t know how to stop that. And I want to be an artist, not a software engineer, but don’t know how to tell my parents.
Read more
Letters to the Editor: Nov 23-29, 2007
November 29, 2007
Setting the Record Straight
I notice this account of the Renato Hughes case omits the fact the homeowner’s son was beaten with a baseball bat during the robbery, causing brain damage (“Uncommon Injustice,” Rodel Rodis, Nov. 9). The son lives in a rehabilitation center and can no longer feed himself. Break into someone’s home at 4 a.m. and beat their child with a baseball bat? Expect to get shot, and consider yourself lucky if you only get life in prison.
Kerry Maxwell
Via Web site
The Changing Face of L.A.’s Little Tokyo
November 29, 2007
A new wave of multicultural investors, residents and visitors is transforming Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo, the largest of three major Japantowns left in California. Read more
The 25 Most Infamous Yellow Face Film Performances Part 1
November 28, 2007
It may be hard to believe, but there was once a time when Hollywood would routinely turn to non-Asian actors to portray Asian characters in films.
Often, these “yellow face” performances both reinforced and embodied all the negative stereotypes — funny accent, slanted eyes, buck teeth, and enough “Orientalism” to send the yellow fever meter through the roof.
For those too young to know this history or those wanting to take a walk down memory lane, here are the 25 “yellow face” film performances (so no David Carradine in Kung Fu unless the long-rumored film version gets made) that have arguably had the most impact on our cultural landscape.
And if you think “yellow face” existed only in the non-P.C. past, note that three of the entries are from this year.
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