http://harrymok.com/blog Asian American news, views and other assorted things Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:31:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrO87ItXoNg[/youtube]A free showing of the classic film "Breakfast at Tiffany's" in Sacramento has been canceled after it was pointed out to organizers that Mickey Rooney's yellow-face Mr. Yunioshi scenes are offensive to many Asian Americans. After the first protests, Rooney's scenes were going to be deleted from the film for ... http://harrymok.com/blog/breakfast-at-tiffanys-screening-canceled-over-mickey-rooneys-yellow-face-character/ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILACsB0hyos[/youtube]Singer-songwriter Goh Nakamura, who performed at the Hyphen Hybrid Issue party, releases his second album with a show at Cafe Du Nord in San Francisco on Wednesday. From the preview I've heard, the tracks sound great. Scrabbel and Michelle Amado will also perform at the album release party. ... http://harrymok.com/blog/goh-nakamura-releases-new-album-ulysses/ OK, had to geek out over this for a minute. Now I'm better. This movie poster with John Cho, whom you may know as Harold of "Harold and Kumar," for the new "Star Trek" movie was released this week. As you also may know, Cho is taking over the role ... http://harrymok.com/blog/john-cho-star-trek-poster-released/ Olympic swimmer Natalie Coughlin, who's added a bronze, silver and gold medal to her collection so far in Beijing, is a quarter Filipino, something that with all the media coverage of her, probably isn't that well known. Asian Journal has an interview with Coughlin in which she talks about her career, ... http://harrymok.com/blog/swimmer-natalie-coughlin-is-part-filipino/ Comcast yanked Asian American television network iaTV from its San Francisco channel offerings last month, and apparently nobody noticed. The cable company cited low viewership as the reason. I have to admit, I rarely watched iaTV. One reason was the channel guide never showed what was on iaTV, so it was ... http://harrymok.com/blog/iatv-pulled-from-san-francisco-cable-system/ The news media likes to do "reaction" stories, especially if there's a tie to a particular race or ethnicity. With the Olympics starting on Friday in Beijing, a natural story is finding out how Chinese Americans feel about the games being hosted in the "homeland." According to the San Jose Mercury ... http://harrymok.com/blog/chinese-american-reaction-to-the-olympics/ San Francisco Giants pitcher Geno Espineli is reportedly the first full-blooded Filipino to play Major League Baseball and I read today (see very end of story) that teammate Tim Lincecum's mother is Filipina. Espineli's parents are immigrants and he and his siblings were born and raised in Houston. He's a ... http://harrymok.com/blog/filipinos-geno-espineli-tim-lincecum-play-for-giants/ Jeff Yang ponders whether Barack Obama could become the first Asian American president, even though he's black, just like Bill Clinton was once called the first black president, even though he's white. Yang, in his Asian Pop column, makes the case the Obama's upbringing in Hawaii, a state with a ... http://harrymok.com/blog/obama-the-first-asian-american-presidential-candidate/ My trip to Chicago last week for the Unity Journalists of Color convention drew some parallels the "Across Asian Middle America" feature in the Road Trip Issue of Hyphen, which hits the streets in August. Chicago is a great city and has a sizable Asian American presence, but it's nowhere near ... http://harrymok.com/blog/experience-in-chicago-raises-questions-about-stereotypes/ Jeff Yang's Asian Pop column and a post by The Black Snob at The Dregublog last week broach a familiar topic for Asian Americans: dating and sex. Who Asian American men and women are and aren't doing it with is always good fodder for Internet chatter. If anything touches a ... http://harrymok.com/blog/interracial-dating-and-asian-americans-always-a-hot-subject/