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2010 Fall Arts Guide
Fall is the time when a new season for the arts gets under way. This year is full of promise. It is hard to predict trends but a few things do stick out
Read More »Music to His Ears
A local, passionate, young violinist develops and conducts his own orchestra before heading to Columbia University.
Read More »“A Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop” and “Harimaya Bridge”
A Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop Based on the Coen Brothers’ 1984 classic, “Blood Simple”, this Chinese version about infidelity, murder and miscommunication is a remake by renowned filmmaker Zhang Yimou (“Raise
Read More »Yamamoto’s show at the Greg Kucera Gallery
An artist borrows memories from her Hawaiian childhood in the 1960s to inspire her modern work
Read More »Is the Definition of Sophistication Obsolete?
Recently the wife took me to a ballet performance, where I promptly fell asleep. It was some sort of story about a doll that came to life and fell in love with a guy.
Read More »A Chinese Elder’s Casino-Bus Nightmare
They call him Old Li. Too ashamed to return to China, he endlessly rides buses from New York to casinos. Never gambling, he lives on rebate coupons
Read More »Asian Americans and the Struggle for Equal Marriage Rights
With the passage of the Defense of Marriage Act of 1998, Washington state banned marriages between people of the same sex within its borders. The Act was upheld in 2006 by the Washington State
Read More »Model Minority Myth and the ‘Miracle Drug’
Asian American college students are increasingly misusing dangerous prescription drugs like Adderall to help get good grades
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