The anticipation began building four months before Meg & Dia released their surprise fifth album, “Happysad.” On March 25, the sisters appeared on Instagram with their first post as a […]
Category: From the Magazine
Food For Thought: Food Stylist Sophia Chang Is The Master Of #Foodiegram
These days, it’s hard to imagine any meal, in any corner of the world, where someone isn’t taking a photo of their food. Conservative estimates suggest that there are […]
The Treatment: Two Chinese American Best Friends Strive To Outsmart A Journalist In ‘The Ringmen’
INTRODUCTION 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 and promising illustrator […]
Standup Comedian Sierra Katow Is The New Queen Of The Comedy Club
Sierra Katow stands confidently on stage with mic in her hand, only fidgeting when she tucks strands of her long black hair behind her ear. She’s been honing her […]
Travel ‘47 Meters Down’ With Actress Brianne Tju
Nothing could be worse than being trapped in abandoned underwater ruins, with a dwindling oxygen supply and no escape … unless there was a merciless shark nearby, waiting for […]
Andrew Kung’s ‘The All-American’ Proves You Don’t Have To Fight To Be A Man
Flipping through the pages of Andrew Kung’s book, “The All-American,” feels almost like looking into a bejeweled, decadent wonderland—if that wonderland was populated solely by Asian American men. From a […]
A Chat With Michele Josue, The Director Of Netflix’s ‘Happy Jail’
In 2007, an unlikely video went viral. Originating from the Cebu province of the Philippines, it featured a group of inmates (and even a “ladyboy”) dressed in those signature […]
Get To Know The Girl Behind The Ghost Of ‘The Terror: Infamy’
There’s something uneasy that haunts the dirt roads of the Japanese American community living on Terminal Island on this season of AMC’s anthology series, “The Terror.” Many horror movies like […]
Review: David Yoon’s Debut Novel Will Have You Falling ‘Frankly In Love’
It’s a tale as old as time, or at least as old as the young adult literature genre. Two people, typically young, white and rebellious, initiate a clever fake-dating […]
Review: Looking For A New Food Show To Binge? Check Out ‘The Chef Show’
A wildly colored food truck with a pair of longhorns strapped to its front careens down a hilly, winding road in beautiful stop motion-esque glory. Suddenly, “El Jefe” hits […]
Review: J. Lo And Constance Wu Bring A Real-Life, Diamond-Studded Scam To Life In ‘Hustlers’
Clad in silver sequins, Ramona (Jennifer Lopez) prowls onto the stage as Wall Street businessmen in slick suits roar and “make it rain” at the dancer’s feet. But the […]
Blonde Redhead’s Kazu Makino Is Going Solo With ‘Adult Baby’
Time stands still on a Friday evening on the Italian island of Elba. Two cups of hot matcha have been whisked until frothy. A tired musician stares at her […]
Review: Mongolian Band, The Hu, Transcends Language Through The Power Of Music
Across the vast grassy steppe, a low rumble sounds. It’s not a herd of antelope or Przewalski’s horses. It’s a Mongolian biker gang. And this gang is armed with […]
Got MILCK? Meet The Voice Of The 2017 Women’s March, Connie Lim
On the gray, misty day of the 2017 Women’s March on Washington, MILCK, aka Connie Lim, led a small group of singers to join the hundreds of thousands of […]
Food For Thought: Is Fusion Asian Food Really Even Asian?
There are few food terms that have turned more rancid than “fusion.” When fusion cuisine first gained currency in the 1980s, it was supposed to communicate a kind of […]
