New York’s Broadway theater district isn’t called the Great White Way for nothing. Its most heralded dramatists are a roll call of great white men: Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, […]
Author: Serena Kim
Serena Kim was the editor-in-chief of Character Media.
Review: Mitski’s ‘Be the Cowboy’ is Powerful Art About Personal Weakness
About two-thirds of the way through Mitski’s fifth album, she makes a naked confession: “My God, I’m so lonely/ So I open the window to hear sounds of people.” […]
Ronny Chieng Weaves Comedy Gold From His ‘International Student’ Stories
Sporting a razor-sharp, closely fitted gray suit, Ronny Chieng dribbles and moves with ease around the hoop in the parking lot of KORE in the soupy heat of Gardena, […]
Producer Nina Yang Bongiovi: Why I Create Opportunities for Underrepresented Storytellers
As told to Serena Kim After receiving her graduate degree from USC, Nina Yang Bongiovi headed to Shanghai to work as a director’s assistant in martial arts action films. […]
Review: ‘Minding the Gap’ Is a Love Letter to Skateboarding 12 Years in the Making
Skateboarding tends to attract the rebels of the world—the outcasts, the iconoclasts, the freaks, the weirdos, the kids with no dads, and the kids who don’t fit in with […]
Cover Story: Don’t Get Comedian Jo Koy Started About Paying Dues
If you take a long and winding road way up into the tree-lined North Hollywood hills, you will arrive at a meandering driveway lined with big, fancy cars. You […]
Dr. Ken’s Family Comes to ABC This October
Give a warm welcome to the second network show this year featuring an Asian American family. Less than a year ago, it was hard to say whether Fresh Off […]
Linda Dong Makes Comedic Videos That Young Girls Can Relate To
It started with a camcorder her dad bought her when she was 11 years old. Vietnamese Canadian actress Linda Dong, 22, who has garnered 590,000-plus subscribers and 78 million […]
Audrey Fall 2015 Cover Story: Constance Wu
Constance Wu has had one surreal year. As Jessica Huang on the hit ABC comedy Fresh Off the Boat, Wu not only jumped from a relative Hollywood unknown […]
The Road Untraveled: These Artists Prove That It’s Never Too Late to Chase Your Dreams
It may be clicheÌ to say that as Asian Americans, we’re often pressured to forgo our more artistic or creative passions for a stable career path. And yet […]
Haikus with Hotties Nomination #5: Dan Choi
In case you hadn’t heard, we successfully funded a Kickstarter in less than 3 days on August 18, 2015, and now we’re making a 2016 calendar out of […]
Haikus With Hotties Nomination #6: Cary Fukunaga
In case you hadn’t heard, we successfully funded a Kickstarter in less than 3 days on August 18, 2015, and now we’re making a 2016 calendar out of […]
Can Hari Kondabolu Stay In the Top Five, Plus Dan Choi and Cary Fukunaga Join the Pack
We’re collecting votes until Tuesday, August 25 at 11:59PM PST to see who we should pursue for our 2016 Haikus with Hotties calendar, and we’re giving you Daily Hot Five charts […]
LAST DAY TO VOTE for your Favorite Hottie!
We’re collecting votes until Tuesday, August 25 (TONIGHT) at 11:59PM PST to see who we should pursue for our 2016 Haikus with Hotties calendar. Time to rally the […]
Ryan Higa Fans Organize, and Chef Viet Pham Joins The Hot Nominees
We’re collecting votes until Tuesday, August 25 at 11:59PM PST to see who we should pursue for our 2016 Haikus with Hotties calendar, and we’re giving you Daily Hot Five charts […]
