East Asian Pop Culture: Analysing the Korean Wave (Transasia: Screen Cultures)
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
At the start of his just-completed tour of Asia, President Barack Obama gave a packed crowd at Suntory Hall in Tokyo a taste of his signature oratorical skill, delivering a speech intended to set the tone for his eight-day journey across the continent. It was...
The Music Digest (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Credited as the largest boy band in the world, the Korean pop boy band Super Junior is also a major icon in Asian pop scene. With its bestselling third album Sorry, Sorry, conquered the charts of several Asian countries especially in Thailand, Taipei, China, and Japan.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
For the geekerati, it was a Pentagon Papers moment. Last week, the anonymous "total transparency" site Wikileaks unveiled a new cache of classified documents -- memos revealing the top-secret terms of a proposed international treaty, the Anti-Counterfeiting...
BUNNY BISSOUX (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I managed 5 posts in a row that weren't about Asian pop idols'let's celebrate with an Ohno GIF:
GameSetWatch (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
[With the heavily video game-influenced Data Beez chiptune music tour hitting San Francisco tomorrow, with extra stops in Portland and Seattle, GSW correspondent Jeriaska spoke to some of the artists on their bleeptastic audio and visual output.] The Data Beez West Coast chip music tour is currently in full swing, with stops planned for San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. The Los Angeles stopover...
HotelChatter - (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
If you're a fan of Asian pop music then you're bound to know that Hong Kong singer Jacky Cheung is quite a star – they even call him the "God of Songs" in that part of the world. Knowing that, the fact that there's now a Jacky Cheung Rock Star Suite at Macau's Hard Rock Hotel is pretty cool news. Even if you don't know too much about Jacky Cheung, you'll learn plenty by staying in his...
The Moment (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Photos by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images Michael and Eva Chow. What: Michael and Eva Chow's blowout to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Upper East Side chapter of the Mr. Chow empire. Where: Mr. Chow, 324 East 57th Street. Who: Brooke Shields, Cindy Adams, Hamish Bowles, Glenda Bailey, Olivier Zahm, Jefferson Hack, Terence Koh, Thakoon Panichgul, Mischa Barton, Andres Serrano, Beth Rudin deWoody,...
the finer dandy (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
I know I am two weeks behind with this, but it’s not like Asian Americans have been flooding entertainment and pop culture (I’m jus’ sayin…) However, I did finally watch New York, I Love You (a continuation of the much more robust and enjoyable Paris, je t’aime) and despite what some people are saying, there was [...]
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
For fans of the 1984 Pat Morita and Ralph Macchio blockbuster "The Karate Kid," the spy photos that leaked out of China last month were like a crane-kick to the heart. The half-dozen blurry pics, snapped from the forest surrounding Hubei Province's Wu Tang...
Twilight Lexicon (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
The Asian pop culture and current happenings website Ningin talked to Justin Chon about his upcoming plans and life since Twilight. “JI: Cool deal. So, has life here changed for you since Twilight happened? JC: Life — I mean, in some ways, yeah. Like I get to travel a lot. Ya know, once in awhile [...]
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
My mother-in-law never asks for anything. She's a model of thrift and self-sacrifice -- about 0.4 on the Arc scale (where 1.0 is full Joan), which makes any request from her something that immediately commands my full attention. "Next time you go shopping,...
the finer dandy (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
We got models, little computer savvy girls, awkward community college dudes and a few others this week… Danny Pudi plays the vacantly endearing Abed in NBC’s Community Danny Pudi as Abed in Community. He’s probably one of the few things that is funny on that show. The little Asian girl in those Windows commercials. Yeah, she’s cute…and kinda [...]
the finer dandy (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Didn’t have too many Asians show up on my radar this week… John Cho is lookin’ pretty intense on ‘FlashForward’ - Photo Credit: ABC/Bob D’amico John Cho on Flash Forward… Sandra Oh on Grey’s Anatomy… B.D. Wong on Law & Order: SVU… Margaret Cho on Drop Dead Diva… I think I saw about five Asian zombies in Zombieland… That...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
A few years ago, while we were watching Ben Stiller's kiddie classic "Night at the Museum," my then four-year-old son Hudson had a skeptical moment. "Daddy, is everything really alive in the museum?" he asked. I told him no, that things in museum exhibits...
the finer dandy (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
The tally went off the charts this week… Anna Maria Perez de Tagle is the ‘joy’ of ‘Fame’ Anna Maria Perez de Tagle: The tween starlet plays Joy in Fame. Valerie Tian can be spotted in Jennifer’s Body (she was also the abortion protester in Juno, also a Diablo Cody scribed film) How did I manage to leave out [...]
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