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Free Hep B and Hep C Testing at AHSC’s Healthy Living Pavilion
18 May 2012 11:42 PM | No CommentsThe Healthy Living Pavilion at the 8th Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration taking place at San Francisco’s Civic Center on May 19th, will provide free and low-cost health services, professional medical advice, interactive activities with prizes and health-related education materials. Located on Larkin Street between...
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Amok again: Have a “Lin-sane” Street Fair!
18 May 2012 11:35 PM | 1 CommentWhat, another year? Another heritage month? Why not let your friendly longtime amok columnist slice and dice things up for you nicely? This year we replaced poor Asian American YouTube hater, Alexandra Wallace, the blonde buxom bully of Asian Americans in the library, with basketball...
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SF Hosts Largest Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Celebration Saturday, May 19 at Civic Center
18 May 2012 11:11 PM | No CommentsSAN FRANCISCO – The City is hosting the largest pan Asian street fair nationwide to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage month on Saturday, May 19th at San Francisco’s Civic Center. The 8th Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration, produced by the AsianWeek Foundation, will feature a...
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Rob McKenna Opens WA Campaign Office In Seattle Chinatown/ID
18 May 2012 1:53 AM | No CommentsI got this in my e-mail box. I first ran into Rob McKenna when he ran for Attorney General back in 2000 on the campaign trail for Supt of Public Instruction. Now he’s a favorite to be the next governor against Jay Inslee. While Rob...
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Cultural Procession Highlights Faces of Asia
18 May 2012 12:08 AM | No CommentsColorful Asian ethnic attire will be paraded through the Asian Heritage Street Celebration as part of the Faces of Asia cultural procession at 11 a.m. “The cultural procession is an opportunity for people from different ethnic groups to come together to wear their cultural attire...
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Emil Amok Archive
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Amok again: Have a “Lin-sane” Street Fair!
Posted on May 18, 2012 | 1 CommentWhat, another year? Another heritage month? Why not let your friendly longtime amok columnist slice and dice things up for you nicely? This year we replaced poor Asian American YouTube hater, Alexandra Wallace, the blonde buxom bully of Asian Americans in the library, with basketball... -
Amok: This year, Alexandra Wallace for Street Fair Queen
Posted on May 21, 2011 | 3 Commentsby Emil Guillermo In the nearly 15 years of writing my “Amok” column in that historic ethnic media publication known as AsianWeek, I can’t recall ever seeing a force unite such a group as disparate as Asian Americans so totally. And just in time for... -
Rod McLeod’s Political Experiment: Can you win without money?
Posted on June 4, 2010 | No CommentsSan Francisco lawyer shows how to be above it all—spend practically nothing. By Emil Guillermo Rod McLeod–an accomplished trial lawyer and partner at one of the world’s biggest firms–is running on Tuesday for a Superior Court judgeship in the City and County of San Francisco.... -
On Asian American Pacific-Islander Heritage Month, and other matters
Posted on May 13, 2010 | No CommentsFunny how immigration has become the issue gripping all of us “professional ethnicists” during this Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. How’s this for a replication of the Nueva Arizona experience? When someone asks me for my papers I’m all ready with a standard reply:... -
No Redemption for Bill Richardson
Posted on January 1, 2009 | 10 CommentsDon’t forget him: Wen Ho Lee is 2008’s person of the year I know, Lee made news back in 1999. But people forget, and they need to remember. That’s especially true now that Lee’s main tormentor, Bill Richardson — the former energy secretary under Clinton... -
Christmas Dog
Posted on December 25, 2008 | No CommentsNo, I didn’t eat one for Christmas dinner. But this year, it was a dog sitting on my lap who gave me my first real sense of Christmas. It was a quiet moment when a simple living being just looked up at me, and all... -
Stocking Stuffer
Posted on December 18, 2008 | No CommentsNot a creature was stirring, not even a mouse… With the Federal Reserve cutting bank lending rates to near zero, and “safe” T-bills yielding near zero returns for consumers, let me be the first to welcome you to the new Zero World. It even comes... -
In an Administration of Firsts, APA Firsts
Posted on December 11, 2008 | No CommentsBut will the IL scandal and Candidate ‘5’ put a snag in the appointment of the first APA woman to the Senate? You may be smirking about this week’s political scandal involving Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (that’s Bla-GOYA-vitch for all you phonetically inclined). -
A Slap in Our Face: We can’t forget what Richardson did to Wen Ho Lee
Posted on December 4, 2008 | 11 CommentsAlso Read: Commerce Secretary Appointment Draws Ire From Asian Americans Wen Ho Lee is as close as it gets in contemporary Asian Pacific American history to a mythic victim of racism in our nation. -
Of Hot Turkey Sex, Bush and Obama
Posted on November 27, 2008 | 2 CommentsIs change coming to your Thanksgiving table and to the White House? All this talk about change these days. This year, is there going to be a change at your Thanksgiving meal?