Goodwin Liu nomination moves forward
Goodwin Liu’s nomination to be a judge on the US Court Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has moved a step closer to fruition with the Senate Judiciary Committee vote to move it to the full-floor Read More …
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Racial undercurrent to attacks on Asian Americans
The death of Tian Sheng Yu after a senseless beating on an Oakland, CA, street has brought up the issue of racial tensions between Asian Americans and African Americans (the suspects in the attack are Read More …
Hyphen Inside/Out Issue hits the streets
Mr. Hyphen Pahole Sookkasikon wants you to take a sneak peek at The Inside/Out Issue of Hyphen, with him on the cover, which is now posted on the Hyphen site. The print edition is on Read More …
2010 Giants tickets for sale
Once again, I’ll be selling Giants tickets for View Box 313, row A, seats 10-11. These seats are in the front row if the upper deck behind home plate and have great views of the action Read More …
Korean American Studies Center to open at UC Riverside
Great news for all you Asian American studies scholars out there. The University of California, Riverside, is launching a  Korean American studies center with the help of a $2.7 million endowment from the Overseas Koreans Foundation.
Food section debuts in Hyphen Inside/Out Issue
Food and Asian Americans are irrevocably linked. Much of this is due to  chop suey imagery forged by the likes of  TV chef Martin Yan or the perceived exoticness of Asian food and the explosion of fusion Read More …
Hyphen nominated for Utne Independent Press Award
Great news: Hyphen is up for a 2010 Utne Independent Press Award in the social/cultural coverage category. If you’ve not heard of it, the Utne Reader is a magazine that digests and reprints the best from alternative Read More …
Jake Shimabukuro thanks YouTube
Shimabukuro been called the Hendrix of Ukulele (or for you 80s heavy metal fans, the  Yngwie of Ukulele, as former Hyphen Music Editor Todd Inoue described him). I sawShimabukuro play at Yoshi’s San Francisco on Monday night, Read More …
Hyphen release party video on Myx
If you couldn’t make it to Hyphen’s Trailblazing Issue release party, here’s a video from Myx with some highlights.
John Cho discusses ‘Harold and Kumar,’ ‘Star Trek’ sequels
Flash Forward star John Cho says that a script for the third Harold and Kumar has been written and that it will be a holiday-themed movie that takes place a few years after the last film. Read More …