Bitter, Sweet: Thao Nguyen and her band Get Down Stay Down is out with their fourth full-length release, Know Better Learn Faster. ISSUE: Spring 2010 DEPT: Personalities STORY: Jimmy Lee Here’s your chance to watch a young pop artist mature and take on new musical risks. And with her fourth full-length release, titled Know Better [...]

Passion Play executive producer Rebecca Wang is a woman on top. ISSUE: Fall 2011 DEPT: Personalities STORY: Janice Jann Don’t call Rebecca Wang a multi- hyphenate. “Multi-hyphenates do not present motion pictures,” says the film producer who released her first Hollywood film, Passion Play in May 2011, starring Mickey Rourke, Bill Murray and Megan Fox. [...]

In my senior year of high school, I remember how my buddy hosted a viewing party for the finale of—actually I don’t recall which America’s Next Top Model season it was because there are so many! What I do remember is the diversity of the contestants from Indian American Anchal Joseph to Korean American Gina Choe. With the ANTM series still [...]

It’s tough getting any movie made, much less one about an Iranian forbidden lesbian romance coming of age drama. So kudos to producers Karin Chien, Melissa M. Lee and Maryam Keshavarz (who also wrote and directed the film) for releasing Circumstance earlier this year and to rave reviews. The movie centers around a pair of [...]

If a true artist cannot fully express himself, can he still be called an artist? I’m not trying to be a quasi-philosopher here, but in terms of the recent detention of Ai Weiwei, the answer is yes! The Chinese contemporary artist was detained on April 3 by Chinese officials at the Beijing airport before he [...]