A-pop! Asians in new fall sitcoms
A monthly column about all things Asian in popular culture By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Racial caricatures as an incentive to buy … chips? In yet another stunt of using racism as humor,...
View ArticleA-pop! Castles don’t float in Asia, Roger Mayweather is bananas
A-pop! All things Asian in popular culture By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly This month was wacky. In the words of the inimitable Sharon Stone, “Is that karma, when you’re not nice that the bad...
View ArticleA-pop! Summer blockbusters and new opportunities
All things Asian in popular culture By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly From America to Japan, June was a month of rebooting in the world of pop culture. This meant some Asians were fortunate...
View ArticleA-pop! Controversy abound: plastic beauty queens and R-E-S-P-E-C-T for...
All things Asian in popular culture! By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Do you hear that sizzle? No, it’s not the sound of an egg cooking on the sidewalk, as summer finally ramps up in Seattle —...
View ArticleA-pop! Back to School Edition
All things Asian in popular culture By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly It’s the ubiquitous question on everyone’s lips on the first day of school, “How did you spend your summer vacation?” If you...
View ArticleA-pop! September Edition
A monthly column about all things Asian in popular culture By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Between fall television premieres and online dowries (you read that correctly), September saw Asians...
View ArticleA-pop! The New Bond Girl
A monthly column about all things Asian in popular culture By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly With November underway and Halloween behind us, I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday and avoided...
View ArticleA-pop! Twitter idiots strike again, and a farewell to Das Racist
A monthly column about all things Asian in popular culture By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly The holiday season typically compels people to perform acts of goodwill despite conflicts and...
View ArticleThe 10 Best Asian Pop Songs You Might’ve Missed in 2012
By Reese Umbaugh For the Northwest Asian Weekly When South Korean artist Psy’s song “Gangnam Style” became a worldwide phenomenon this year, the formerly niche genre known as K-pop (short for Korean...
View ArticleA-pop! Top 10 Pop Culture Stories from 2012
By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly With 2013 officially underway, everyone is clamoring for a fresh start by tackling their New Year’s resolutions. While it’s certainly good and well to usher in...
View ArticleA-pop! Asians invade the screen
By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Even though 2013 has only been underway for a few short weeks, there’s already a lot of news to cover, including anti-Americanism, television castings, and even...
View ArticleA-pop! The Awards Season — An Asian American night at the Oscars, Grammys,...
By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly It may still be chilly and dreary, but Asians have been heating up the awards scene like no other this past month! From film to music, February saw Asians and...
View ArticleA-pop! On both screens — Winning awards, winning reality, and the first...
By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly It may be officially springtime, but the vestiges of winter and its awards season still linger. Read on to see how Asians have been winning in the media this...
View ArticleA-pop! Goodbye Ebert, goodbye Lin, hello China.
By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Honoring Roger Ebert In early April, the world bid adieu to Roger Ebert, famed writer, journalist, and film critic, who passed away after an 11-year battle with...
View ArticleA-pop! A month of influence, celebrity, and success
By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly TIME and the most influential Asians TIME recently published the 2013 TIME 100 — its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world — which...
View ArticleA-pop! Out of school and on the silver screen — From Seattle and beyond
By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly The heat is rising in Seattle as summer finally makes an appearance in the city! And as temperatures are soaring high, so too are the profiles of many young...
View ArticleAsian America at the Capitol Hill Block Party
By Charles Lam Northwest Asian Weekly Each year in July, the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce closes off a portion of the neighborhood to host the Capitol Hill Block Party, a music and cultural...
View ArticleA-pop! Heroes and villains — Racists think they’re not racist, and Asian...
By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly From racist music videos to Asian superheroes, July was an interesting month for Asians and pop culture. And by “interesting,” I mean equal parts disgusting and...
View ArticleA-pop! The end of an era and the start of a new one — Goodbye, Miyazaki!...
By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Summer is out and fall is in! But before we usher in the new season, let’s take a moment to reflect on all that has happened in the pop culture world this past...
View ArticleBehind the scenes — The good, the bad, and the ugly in Asian pop culture
By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Chinese food going viral One of the biggest YouTube viral hits this past month was the profoundly offensive and ridiculous music video for “Chinese Food,” a pop...
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