8 Most Popular Posts (Last Seven Days)
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Asian American Commercial Watch: Liberty Mutual Insurance’s ‘First Word | Truth Tellers’
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In a Post-Apocalyptic Zombie World, Asian American Man Gets White Girl
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Who Is The Asian Woman Sitting Courtside At Lakers Home Games?
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Review of Netflix Japan’s “Our Secret Diary”
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Asian Guys and that One Long Pinky Fingernail
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The Difference Between Internment Camps and Concentration Camps
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The Attractive, Accomplished, and Fake Chinese Women who want to connect with me
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Do Asians Have Body Hair?
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Category Archives: San Francisco Bay Area
Bay Area Giveaway: Tickets for ‘City of Life and Death’
UPDATE 9/22/2011: Congrats to the winner, Eunice P! City of Life and Death is a visionary drama of the 1937 Japanese-Chinese conflict known as the Nanking Massacre. Released in China in 2009 under the title 南京! 南京! (Nánjīng! Nánjīng!), this … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Movies, Promotions, San Francisco Bay Area
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Michelle Le Search Finds Body, Identity Not Yet Confirmed
We have talked about how Giselle Esteban was arrested for murder in the Michelle Le missing person case; investigators say that cell phone records show Giselle Esteban and Michelle Le’s phone both took similar paths to the Sunol Canyon area, … Continue reading
Posted in (simple), Current Events, Local, San Francisco Bay Area
Tagged Giselle Esteban, MIchelle Le, murder
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Cupertino Union School District Fails NCLB Rating
Cupertino public schools have a reputation for academic excellence and a large Asian American population. Two schools in the Cupertino Union School District, Faria and Murdock-Portal, scored 998 out of 1000 on the Academic Performance Index (API), a tie for … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Local, San Francisco Bay Area
Tagged Cupertino Union School District, No Child Left Behind
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Shark Fin Soup Ban Closer To Reality In California
On Tuesday, California State Senate voted 25 to 9 to ban the sale, trade and possession of shark fin and thus the sale of real shark fin soup (there’s always substitute shark fin…). California’s State Assembly had already passed the … Continue reading
Is SF’s Interim Mayor Ed Lee Really A Lee Or A Mah?
I saw yet another interesting article posted by a friend on Facebook regarding San Francisco Interim Mayor Ed Lee’s family origins and family name. Back in August, I had blogged about how the Lee family association is one of the … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, History, Local, Politics, San Francisco Bay Area
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Goodwin Liu Confirmed to California Supreme Court
Earlier this spring, UC Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu was blocked by Senate Republicans for an Obama appointment to a federal appeals court. On Wednesday, Liu was confirmed to a seat on the California Supreme Court: The Commission on Judicial … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Local, Politics, San Francisco Bay Area
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SF’s Democratic County Central Committee Ignores Asian American Mayoral Candidates
In an inexplicable move, San Francisco’s Democratic County Central Committee, which is composed of 32 committee members, did not endorse any of the major and very qualified Asian American candidates for mayor: [The DCCC] recently endorsed Supervisor John Avalos as its … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Discrimination, Politics, San Francisco Bay Area
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San Francisco’s Building 640 To Honor Japanese American Linguists from World War II
There’s an abandoned warehouse in Presidio National Park but soon, Building 640 will be the site of a new learning center, revealing its secret history as a Military Intelligence Service Language School. In 1941, the military housed and trained 60 … Continue reading
Posted in History, San Francisco Bay Area
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Two Pounds Noodles, Two Pounds Meat: Tales of the Pho Garden Challenge
The Pho Garden Challenge requires that you eat a bowl of pho with two pounds of noodles and two pounds of meat in less than one hour. When I saw a recent article on this food challenge, I looked into … Continue reading
Asians Behaving Badly: San Jose Panda Express Sued for Latino Discrimination
Via the Mercury News: “The federal government said Wednesday it is suing a Panda Express restaurant in West San Jose for making its Latino workers clean toilets while Asian employees stood by and enjoyed an easier workload. The U.S. Equal … Continue reading
Posted in (simple), Discrimination, Food & Drink, Local, San Francisco Bay Area
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Tickets on Sale for the 2nd Annual Kollaboration SF [SPONSORED POST]
“The second annual Kollaboration San Francisco show is fast approaching, and tickets are on sale NOW! Kollaboration San Francisco is the largest Asian American entertainment event of the Bay Area, and one of the fastest growing chapters of a nationwide … Continue reading
SF Interim Mayor Ed Lee’s Family Ties to Chinatown
When I was growing up in Western Massachusetts, I remember my family befriended a Chinese family who moved into the area to open a family business. I learned one day that they were descendants of Confucius–in fact, something like the … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Family, Local, Politics, San Francisco Bay Area
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