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West Coast Helps Launch National Hepatitis Testing Day
22 May 2012 11:30 PM | No CommentsU.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) highlights Hep B Free and Hep C Task Force for Los Angeles and San Francisco as part of nearly 100 testing events across U.S. SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES, CA – May 19, 2012 – Fresh on the heels...
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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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Reel Stories Archive
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South Park’s China Probrem / Pixar Still Spurns Asians
Posted on November 24, 2011 | 3 Comments[hu1stblog] South Park’s China Probrem (accent get it? probLem??) When it comes to racial humour, my rule is that it had better be pretty damn funny, and South Park is usually pretty damn funny. I missed watching the show from the start, but Cartman’s... -
Medicare’s “Extra Help” Program Helps Those With Limited Income Pay For Prescription Medications
Posted on September 26, 2011 | No CommentsWASHINGTON, D.C. – Making ends meet should not mean going without your medications. If you have limited income and resources, Medicare’s “Extra Help” program sets it up so this year you pay no more than $2.50 for each generic drug and $6.30 for each brand... -
‘In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee’ Premieres Tonight on PBS’s POV Series
Posted on September 15, 2010 | 4 CommentsSAN FRANCISCO — Her passport said she was Cha Jung Hee, even though the eight-year-old girl knew that she was not. Yet, over the course of forty years Deann Borshay Liem came to forget that day she arrived in America in March 1966, a transnational... -
Food – Vancouver Film School Canadasian Short
Posted on March 19, 2010 | No CommentsSpeaking of why Asians can’t get more Oscars, these folks are working to change that. Vancouver Film School mostly put out cute computer animated shorts, and many if not most feature budding Asian filmmakers / animators, but this one hit me in the gut. Don’t... -
‘Beginnings and Endings’ for Lodestone Theatre Ensemble
Posted on November 12, 2009 | 2 Commentsby Philip W. Chung Writing is always hard. Even under the best of circumstances, it’s hard. If anyone tells you differently, they are either lying, soulless or just a bad writer. So it was with some trepidation that I approached writing my latest play Grace... -
Bụi Đời (Dust of Life): A Moving Portrait of Multifaceted Asian American Experience
Posted on November 12, 2009 | No CommentsBy Lee Ngo Bụi Đời (Dust of Life) - R – Le Van Kiet, dir. Le Van Kiet’s first feature-length film is a tour-de-force that thousands within the diasporic ethnic Vietnamese communities around the globe have been waiting to see. Based on true events in... -
Daytime Drinking: Entertaining and Unpredictable
Posted on August 21, 2009 | No Comments(photo courtesy of DaytimeDrinking.com) There may not be another country where drinking is as much a part of the culture as it is in South Korea. Three billion bottles of soju, a vodka-like distilled alcohol known as Korea’s unofficial drink, are consumed every year which... -
A “Thirst” That Satisfies
Posted on July 30, 2009 | No CommentsI’ve said it before in the pages of Asian Week and I’ll say it again-Korean director Park Chan-Wook may be the most interesting filmmaker working in the world today. If Thirst, his latest effort, doesn’t quite rank with his best films like Old Boy and... -
All Blood and No Bite
Posted on July 7, 2009 | 1 CommentBlood: The Last Vampire Is it just me or has the recent trend for all things vampire left you feeling like the genre has – and pardon the bad pun – lost its bite? Whether on TV in True Blood or on the big screen... -
The White Man Saves the Day Again?
Posted on December 31, 2008 | 16 CommentsClint Eastwood in ‘Gran Torino’ Hollywood has a tradition of producing films where the heroic Caucasian protagonist saves the helpless people of color. Think Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves or Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai — not only do the white characters act...