June 9, 2012
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June 11, 2012
It’s the future. The year is 2352. A group of Walrusoid Robots are looking back on history. (Oh yeah, in the future, as it turns out, when all computers have…
June 12, 2012
AFTER 1989 is a series that reexamines the intersection of race and pop culture during the ’90s. The mid-1990s were a transitional period for Asian American narrative cinema. The…
June 11, 2012
Takeshi Miyakawa is about to blow up. For years, the Brooklyn-based, Japanese-born furniture designer has been unknown to the general public. Instead, Miyakawa cultivated a small but dedicated fan base…
June 13, 2012
AFTER 1989 is a series that reexamines the intersection of race and pop culture during the ’90s. In 1992, a group of nine gentlemen from Staten Island issued an…
June 14, 2012
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June 19, 2012
AFTER 1989 is a series that reexamines the intersection of race and pop culture during the ’90s. The following is an excerpt from a longer essay. This is a…
June 19, 2012
The upcoming action film Red Dawn, slated for a November release, shows a group of plucky American teenagers fending off a North Korean invasion. The movie was originally filmed with…
June 19, 2012
As Mike Davis notes in Ecology of Fear (2000), Los Angeles is a city with a “propensity for spectacular disaster,” both real and imagined. Even during those rare periods when…
July 12, 2012
You might want to know: Sheng Wang writes jokes and cooks food in his New York Chinatown apartment when his roommate is at work. He strives to write a fart…
June 22, 2012
Do you remember the SATs? Did they suck, or what? Well, compared to China’s national university entrance exam, the gaokao (lit., “test you must ace or work as a menial…
June 25, 2012
The bhangra world is buzzing with news that a track by the Glasgow production team Tigerstyle, “Nachna Onda Nei,” has made it onto the provisional playlist for the London Olympics…
June 25, 2012
Evan Narcisse over at gamer blog Kotaku interviews Navid Khonsari about his real-world political action game—set in Iran in 1979, on the eve of the Iranian Revolution—for which a conservative…
July 12, 2012
In 1993, the Chinese television broadcaster CCTV began airing A Beijinger in New York, a series based on Cao Guilin’s semi-autobiographical novel about a Chinese couple, Wang Qi Ming and…
June 27, 2012
Julio Salgado, the 28-year-old undocu-queer artist and DREAM Act movement leader, appeared on the front cover of TIME Magazine last week with other fellow undocumented immigrants. Mexican-born Salgado channels his…
June 27, 2012
“So I would have no objection if we picked out a country that is a likely suspect and bombed some oil fields, refineries, bridges, highways, industrial complexes, airports, military bases,…
June 27, 2012
Xu Xi lives in the flight path connecting New York, Hong Kong, and the South Island of New Zealand. The New York Times once named her a “pioneer writer from…
July 2, 2012
In 1991, Richard “Q-Bert” Quitevis, a 21-year-old Filipino American DJ from San Francisco, entered the prestigious, international Disco Mix Competition (DMC). He left as both the first Asian American and…
July 10, 2012
Some of you may have read before how I feel at protests: I felt my heart pound the first time I saw someone stand at a podium, fist in air,…