Throughout her prolific career as a music video director, Los Angeles based filmmaker Maegan Houang has explored a wide range of dark fantasy topics with her uncompromising direction. But while videos like "Chatroom", "Happy", and ...
At the tail-end of 2018, the members of the now sizable group ACN: Los Angeles held a holiday mixer. Asian American artists all around Southern California showed up–exchanging business cards, drinking, and 1-v-1-ing each other ...
It's an unfortunate fact of life that every great, slow-paced, colorfully lush Asian film that gets released immediately gets compared to those of director Wong Kar-wai. That's just the world we live in. And although ...
Jazz musician Cody Dear is part of a burgeoning Instagram music community devoted to sharing, collaborating with, and encouraging musicians internationally. Dear is a Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist who plays a fusion of R&B, jazz, soul, ...
Eerie has all the elements of a great horror film. Creepy ghost girls? Check. Scary, oppressive nuns? Check. A beautiful lead actress subjected to terror? Of...
There’s much to be said about the period of time following the Vietnam War and the circumstances surrounding the relocation of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese refugees to the United States. After being thrown into ...
What does it mean to be an American in this day and age? It wasn't until recently that the answer to that once-simple question became more and more obscured--and more impossible...
“Do I have to write songs that everybody loves? With words so meaningless / Yet I’ll still smile and strum.” So goes the revelation that Filipino musician RJ Manulid comes to on “Impostor” at the ...
Before diving into an album named Keep Drinking, you should already have a sense that you’re in for a good time… especially if the band who made the album is called Drinking Boys and Girls ...
Compared to its distant relative, the butterfly, the moth is a little bit underwhelming. Duller, darker, and always second best–that’s the moth’s unfortunate reality. Yet, they’re a creature that is constantly drawn to the spotlight. ...
