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VHS or Beta
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 […] -
Nice Guys Finish Last
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 […]
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Calendar: 11/30/07
‘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.
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Who’s Hot:11/30/07
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+
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MySpace or MyDisgrace?
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 […] -
The Good AIDS News
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 […]
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Supreme Court Must Strike Down Discriminatory Voter ID Law
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 […] -
Letters to the Editor: Nov. 30 - Dec. 6, 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 […] -
Qs for Q
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 […] -
Letters to the Editor: Nov 23-29, 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 […] -
The Changing Face of L.A.’s Little Tokyo
A new wave of multicultural investors, residents and visitors is transforming Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo, the largest of three major Japantowns left in California.
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The 25 Most Infamous Yellow Face Film Performances Part 1
Click to see the gallery
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 […]
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An inspirational article. It makes me want to join a Dragon Boat team.
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Sorry, folks: This duncehead corner is not quite "done" for the day, as in still baying at the moon here.
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Dear Linda & Sue: Gee . . . "beauty" -- well, in this case, let's make it "handsomeness," or "hunky"?, who knows what sexists are reading these posts? -- lies in the eyes of the beholder? In which case, Sue, it would seem thzt your eyes have been glazed by too many subscriptions to too many glossy mags and equally surreal movies and teleseries.
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Mmm, let's see here. This piece, while not as "celebrated" as the author's third effort in the same vein and while it IS "old," still has legs.
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To Yul and my brother Mark -- way to go, I am so proud of you. Keep it up! We are all pulling for you.
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