The K-pop genre tends to bring to mind thoughts of neon hair, wide-eyed girls with flawless, pearlescent skin, barely legal boy groups executing perfectly synchronized dance routines whilst holding […]
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Shirley Chen Takes On Gunsmoke And Gloomy Weather At The 2020 Sundance Film Festival
In Park City, Utah, the weather is chilly and gray, but actress Shirley Chen wears a warm grin—and several layers of coats. The morning after her silver-screen debut at […]
DJ Zhao Wants To Talk To You
It’s a gloomy, cold Monday afternoon, uncharacteristic for Los Angeles in January, and Kenny Zhao is searching for a good place to chill figuratively, not literally. The Chinese American […]
Spirited Away: Go Bottoms Up With Baijiu During Lunar New Year
Famed American journalist Dan Rather covered Richard Nixon’s trip to China in the ‘70s and tried baijiu, the world’s most consumed spirit. Based on his report, let’s just say […]
Throwback: Past And Present Collide Through Anna May Wong And Michele Selene Ang
It all started with a dress. A knee-length, body-hugging, black and gold-sequined, qipao-style dress complete with black fringe at the shoulders and hem. Hanging proudly in my mom’s closet […]
Review: Sanmao’s ‘Stories Of The Sahara’ Brushes Away The Sands Of Time
The very word “Sahara” can conjure up a number of images, perhaps of gleaming artifacts from long-gone, exotic civilizations. Or of a vast, sandy emptiness, populated solely by camels […]
‘Little America’ Star Angela Lin Talks Pulling In Some Big Roles
It’s a sunny morning in Southern California’s San Fernando Valley, and at a cozy Toluca Lake bakery, the sort with handwritten chalk signs and hardwood tables, Angela Lin is […]
Review: ‘The Gentlemen’ Delivers Mindless Fun In Spades
In the middle of a vast farm field sits a lone shipping container that holds a secret. Beneath its surface is a purple-lit tunnel occupied by hundreds upon hundreds […]
Breakout Asian American Star Ella Jay Basco Triumphs As First Live-Action Cassandra Cain
Somewhere in the early Los Angeles morning, a cell phone vibrates—on the other end is 13-year-old Korean Filipina actress and singer Ella Jay Basco, calling from overseas in the […]
How ‘Birds Of Prey’ Director Cathy Yan Is Earning Her Feathers
In April 2018, the web was seized by storm when a short news release from DC Comics and Warner Bros. announced that director Cathy Yan would helm an already […]
Review: Awkwafina Turns The Cameras On Herself In ‘Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens’
If you’ve never found yourself pantsless, chasing your towed car down the street, or sobbing into a wig at a police station, then you might not have much in […]
Ricky Cometa Talks Worldbuilding And The Message In The Magic Of ‘The Owl House’
When Luz, the daydreaming protagonist of Disney Channel’s new animated series “The Owl House,” first stumbles onto the Boiling Isle, her formerly dull life is illuminated in more ways […]
Throwback: Lay’s Magic Masala Potato Chips Provide A Link To Home
For 10 rupees (approximately 14 U.S. cents), I could buy a bag of Lay’s Magic Masala potato chips from my school’s canteen. The fried chips, doused in every perceivable […]
The Treatment: A Chinese American Confederate Soldier Changes The Course Of History In ‘The True, Tall Tales of Robert E(ng) Lee’
Editor’s note: For each issue, we choose an unproduced screenplay and present it to you as a one-page description of the proposed movie. A talented illustrator then reimagines the […]
‘The Good Doctor’ Actor Will Yun Lee Sets The Caregiving Standard
If you’re part of an Asian American or Pacific Islander family, or maybe have watched a few episodes of “Fresh Off the Boat,” you know how important caregiving is to […]
