When I got into UC San Diego in 2018, there was a really popular video called “UC SCHOOL STEREOTYPES EXPLAINED” by the Fung Bros. I felt a weird combination of relief and resignation when UC ...
Like many of us during this turbulent pandemic, I have become quite accustomed to the everyday homebody lifestyle. Waking up a quarter to lunchtime, slinking my way out of bed, only to end up mindlessly ...
In the first few weeks of 2021, it seemed like the political tension in America had reached a breaking point. Terrorists stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC. The sitting president threatened to undermine the ...
Toronto-based singer-songwriter Estyr landed on our best songs of 2019 list with her debut single “Human Alchemy,” a gorgeous reflection on the vagaries of a relationship. Her latest single “Slow Drip” widens the scope of ...
Back in 1975, the Southeast Asia region was heavily impacted by a few major events: the Fall of Saigon, which signaled the end of the Vietnam War, the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, and the ...
Face it, your hometown probably isn’t the best setting for a musical. Most of us are dying to run away from the dead-end local joints, deadbeats, and the people we grew up with for the ...
Back in January, when I first saw Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, the world felt different. The world was different. Coronavirus hadn’t been identified in the States yet. “Social distancing” ...
These days you’re probably spending more of your recreational Internet exploration watching videos and playing games on your smartphone. But for a generation of millennials, hopping onto the family’s only desktop after school or work ...
Selena Yip is the Festival Director of the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival (PAAFF), a “showcase event of Philadelphia Asian American Film and Filmmakers, a non-profit organization founded in 2008 dedicated to supporting and highlighting ...