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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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News Archive
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Martin Yan and Local Chefs Demonstrate Asian Cooking
Posted on May 15, 2012 | No CommentsMartin Yan and Local Chefs Demonstrate Asian Cooking For the first time ever, the 8th Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration is offering the public a chance to learn how to cook delicious Asian dishes at the festival’s cooking demonstration booth located at Ellis and Larkin... -
Borax II: 1954 American Mini-Chernobyl Meltdown And Explosion
Posted on May 14, 2012 | 3 Comments[Fukushima Nuclear Crisis|Simplyinfo] Here’s a nuclear meltdown I’ll bet you never heard of. Atomic Arnie mentioned on Infowars the Borax experiments which was a DELIBERATE nuclear meltdown and prompt-critical explosion. Yes that’s what is was. Man they did some crazy stuff in the 50s, like... -
Fukushima One Year: Apocalypse Not – Nuclear No
Posted on May 14, 2012 | 23 Comments[Fukushima Nuclear Crisis|Simplyinfo] The mainstream media continues to ignore the heroic efforts in Japan to control the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident site which remains a huge mess. Some of this smells like the usual “no White Americans Were Harmed So We Don’t Have to Report... -
America and the Tragic Suicide of Pvt. Danny Chen
Posted on May 11, 2012 | 3 CommentsQuestion: What Do Jeremy Lin, Vincent Chin, and Danny Chen Have In Common? Answer: All three were called anti-Asian names by racists who didn’t like the color of their skin. For Jeremy Lin, the recent name-calling on ESPN was by no means his first. From... -
Happy Birthday to the Lees
Posted on May 11, 2012 | No CommentsTOO LEGIT TO QUIT: His day job that is. Obviously MC Hammer’s no longer on campaign video payroll as more than 500 Herbst Theater attendees watched his Honor Ed Lee’s uncoordinated un-choreographed moves during a belated 60th birthday celebration orchestrated by Claudine Cheng’s May 7... -
Honoring Asian Pacific American Mental Health Day
Posted on May 10, 2012 | No CommentsSAN FRANCISCO – Richmond Area Multi-Services, Inc. (RAMS) proudly joined many others in the community to honor “Asian Pacific American Mental Health Day” on May 10th, as first established in 2010 by the State of California and the City & County of San Francisco, to... -
CSU Trustees Appoint Leslie E. Wong as President of SF State
Posted on May 10, 2012 | No CommentsThe California State University Board of Trustees has named Leslie E. Wong, president of Northern Michigan University, as president of San Francisco State. “I am pleased and honored to be chosen as the next president of San Francisco State, and look forward to working closely... -
SF State to Honor Graduating Asian American students
Posted on May 8, 2012 | No CommentsSan Francisco State University’s graduating class includes a number of exceptional Asian American students who have overcome obstacles, given back to their communities and achieved academically. Of the 7,869 undergraduate and graduate students that will be honored at the University’s Commencement ceremony on May 19,... -
Telltale Signs: Scarborough will not be Mischief Reef redux
Posted on May 4, 2012 | 3 CommentsIf Filipinos could only unite to save the Scarborough Shoal from being invaded by China as Filipinos did to save Jessica Sanchez from being eliminated in American Idol, perhaps the Philippines can still manage to retain its ownership of the disputed shoal in the future.... -
San Francisco International Film Festival Closing Night
Posted on May 4, 2012 | No CommentsThere’s always something interesting about the power of the red carpet — there’s some kind of alchemy that happens and brings it to life when celebrities take their magical ride down the crimson path. The cameras flash and people move about in anticipation to get...