If Hello Kitty can have her own amusement park, then it wouldn’t be too much to ask for a Hayao Miyazaki theme park, right? With about 26 animations […]
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Looking For a Fun Way to Celebrate Lunar New Year? Check Out The Americana at Brand
My Chinese American sister-in-law said that she had never seen a lunar new year parade or celebration, so when I found out about the festivities going on at […]
Must-Read of the Week: ‘The Lotus and the Storm’ by Lan Cao
From the author of the critically acclaimed debut novel Monkey Bridge comes The Lotus and the Storm, another look at the Vietnam War and its aftermath, this time from […]
#MuslimVDay: Valentine’s Day Cards That Combat Islamophobia
The racist tweets that followed American Sniper gives us just a small taste of the Islamophobia and the anti-Muslim sentiment that is alive and well in America. According to […]
Miyazaki’s ‘Princess Mononoke’ Now Available As a Collectable Book
Hayao Miyazaki fans, rejoice! A special edition of the ground-breaking 1997 animated feature film Princess Mononoke is now in collectible coffee table book form, except that this imprint […]
Eat Your Heart For Vanessa Hudgens As Rizzo in ‘Grease’
It seems that the musical bug will not stop biting Vanessa Hudgens. Less than a week after her debut as Gigi at the Kennedy Center, Fox announced that Hudgens will […]
This Cartoonist Shows the Reality of Being An Asian Daughter… And Single
If you know how it feels to be an Asian daughter (or more specifically, an Asian daughter who’s single), then Connie Sun gets you. Taiwanese American cartoonist Connie […]
Cardistry: It’s Not Magic, It’s An Art Form
If you’re anything like me, your idea of shuffling a deck of cards is cutting it in half and rearranging it. Sad, right? A basic card shuffle just isn’t […]
Disney Artist Combines ‘My Neighbor Totoro’ With ‘Big Hero 6’
Big Hero 6‘s Baymax is easily one of the most beloved animated characters of 2014. What’s not to love about this personal healthcare provider? He’s big, huggable and […]
Filipino Artist Uses Sun and Magnifying Glass to Create Detailed Portraits
As a child, I was left in awe after I discovered that the sun is the source of the earth’s heat and energy. I can still recall hunching […]
Illustrator You Byun’s Visually Stunning World
Pictured above is “Hide and Seek,” an artwork from You Byun’s first children’s book, Dream Friends. Do You See What I See? Take a peek into the fantastically detailed world […]
Celeste Ng on How to Take Female Asian Writers Out of Your Blind Spot
In Western society, the voice of the books we read are normally from, well, white men. That’s what author Celeste Ng came across while promoting her book Everything I Never Told […]
Even After 20 Years of Dancing, B-Boy Ronnie Abaldonado Has No Plans of Quitting
At the age of 32, Ronnie Abaldonado, or B-Boy Ronnie as he’s known in the b-boying world, has spent more than 20 years breakdancing. His career is filled […]
Photographer Captures New York Chinatown in the Early 1980s
Twenty years ago, photographer Bud Glick went on a mission to capture New York’s Chinatown for the New York Chinatown History Project, which is now the Museum of Chinese […]
Must-Read of the Week: “Our Happy Time” by Gong Ji- Young
Among the many lessons to be learned from acclaimed novelist Gong Ji- Young’s Our Happy Time, a book that has sold over a million copies in South Korea and […]
