Blog Catalog Blog Directory (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ImaginAsian Entertainment, America’s first 24/7 cable network that provides Asian-inspired media content, will host a special
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Powered by catchy grooves, an all-out marketing frenzy and a wildly addictive Internet dance craze, the teenage divas known as the Wonder Girls have become Korea's biggest pop phenomenon. But can they make it big in America? New York — Shoulder,...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 03/26/2008
With Asian American hip-hop dancers Kaba Modern and Jabbawockeez recently grabbing the limelight on MTV's hit reality show "America's Best Dance Crew," Jeff Yang talks with Benson Lee, director of the newly released feature documentary "Planet B-Boy" on how...
Blog Catalog Blog Directory (Free subscription) | 03/24/2008
Blogging about design, Asian pop culture, movies and a lot more. Anything under the sun!
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
New dad Jeff Yang, thinking about food, identity, and culture, talks with Jennifer 8. Lee, author of the just-published "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles" Prologue: Made with love Our second son, Skyler Jordan Yang, was born two weeks ago — a candy-pink...
Off Center (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
How would you spend a perfect day in Minneapolis? This is a question Walker Teen Programs Manager Witt Siasoco answered in a two page spread in Giant Robot, the fantastic asian pop culture magazine. Like any good day, it starts with coffee, breakfast, followed by a mysteriously short 1 hour workday. There are [...]
Music Snobbery (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
... they come from and the music they play. Although, if you just listen to their happy, smiley 60s Asian pop, you'd think they would fit right into the indie pop scene. First off, they are from Indonesia. I know more about astro-physics than I do about that country. Unfortunately, the first thing I think of is that it's a hot bed of terrorist activity. That aside, the band is pretty well establish...
MissInfo.tv Blog (Free subscription) | 02/29/2008
tomorrow night I’m gonna be repping for my Kreen team, with the homie Park Jin Young aka JYP , at his show at Madison Square Garden. JY will be showcasing his new stable of acts, The Wonder Girls, G-Soul, J-Lim (who has been working with Big Boi from Outkast), and Min (who is Lil’ Jon's project). Should be fun, but I’m scared ishless of stages, so wish me luck : ) If you're a fan of Asian pop...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 02/27/2008
... Indonesia, Malaysia, the United States (legacy members who never left, plus new growth among Asians here), and Singapore. Friendster has kept its growth going by launching fan profile pages for Asian pop singers, launching four new languages since September ( Chinese , Japanese, Korean, and Spanish), and letting developers create apps for its site. So does that mean that Friendster...
Japundit (Free subscription) | 02/02/2008
... and we can enjoy the best part about sales shopping — talking about our purchases afterwards.” Via Asian Pop with YienJee Share This
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 01/29/2008
Two years after Comcast shrank its ambitious plans to build creative, original programming for English-speaking Asian American audiences, the cable giant is shutting down the network. Jeff Yang wonders: Is this a wake-up call for Asian American media —...
Japundit (Free subscription) | 01/27/2008
... else when they cat fight), they have ruled out cancelling the show as demanded by the union. Via Asian Pop With Yien Jee Share This
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 01/16/2008
Jeff Yang catches up with playwright David Henry Hwang, whose latest work, "Yellow Face," is an uncompromising and unexpectedly personal wrestle with the thorny issues of race, culture and Asian American identity. NEW YORK — In one of the most...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 01/04/2008
In a letter to his unborn (and as-yet-unnamed) son, Jeff Yang shares life lessons learned from some of the year's dubious and distinctive Asian and Asian American happenings Dear Son, You don't know me yet, but I'm your dad. It's New Year's Day, Jan. 1,...
