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Mar 28, 2017 Anarchy in Asian America at USC with Gregg Araki, Jon Moritsugu, and Roddy Bogawa

by Martin Wong

On Friday, I attended a panel of underground filmmakers called Anarchy in Asian America featuring Gregg Araki (Totally Fucked Up, The Doom Generation, Mysterious Skin), Jon Moritsugu (Mod Fuck Explosion, Fame Whore, Scumrock), and Roddy Bogawa (Junk, Some Divine Wind, I Was Born, But...

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Mar 21, 2017 City of Gold screening with Laura Gabbert and Jonathan Gold at the LAPL Main Branch

by Martin Wong

Although newspapers, magazines, books, and movies can be accessed online these days, I find myself going to to the library more often than ever. Partially because I am a Luddite who likes to crack open books with pages and still watches movies on DVD, but also because the LAPL hosts so many cool programs. This...

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Mar 14, 2017 Roots: Asian American Movements in Los Angeles 1968-1980s at CAM

by Martin Wong

Roots: Asian American Movements in Los Angeles 1968-1980s at the Chinese American Museum in El Pueblo de Los Angeles documents the Black Panther-inspired Yellow Power Movement in which Asian Americans united to stand up against oppression, fight for their communities, and effect change in society. Roots actually opened to a packed audience one day before our...

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Mar 07, 2017 Scene Report: Maya Soetoro-Ng at Cal Poly Pomona on Peacemaking

by Martin Wong

As soon as I found out AMaya Soetoro-Ng would be giving a talk about peacebuilding, I got ordered free tickets. Don't we need peace more than ever? And who doesn't remember her speech for her half-brother Barack Obama the DNC in 2008? The current advisor at the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace & Conflict Resolution...

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Feb 28, 2017 Scene Report: L.A. Art Book Fair 2017

by Martin Wong

I vividly recall the feeling when Superflat show opened at MOCA. The line stretched across the Pacific Design Center campus, music was blasting from a tented reception area, and contemporary art was suddenly cool for fans of fashion, comics, and rock 'n' roll. The annual L.A. Art Book Fair at MOCA in Little Tokyo is kind...

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Feb 22, 2017 Anarchy in L.A.: Steve Jones, Cheetah Chrome, and Bob’s Donuts all in one night

by Martin Wong

Punks not dead but it is getting longer in the tooth. That's why I jump on every chance I get to meet or see the subculture originators while I can, and living in Los Angeles affords plenty of opportunities. For example, Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols signed his autobiography at The Grove last Thursday....

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Feb 15, 2017 Firecracker run in Chinatown and two-and-a-half minutes of 100,000 firecrackers going off

by Martin Wong

When friends talk about taking kung fu or karate lessons when they were kids or even Muay Thai or MMA as adults, my response has always been that I prefer to run. There was a time when I would participate in a lot of 5Ks, 10Ks, and the Bay to Breakers. Nowadays, I just sign...

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Feb 07, 2017 Chinatown Year of the Rooster Parade at the crossroads of public education

by Martin Wong

The other day, one of my daughter's teachers remarked that she was already sad about Eloise moving on to middle school in just a couple of years. Already a third grader, she is more than halfway through Castelar Elementary's K-5 span. My response was that my wife and I would be sad as well. We feel...

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Feb 01, 2017 Save Music in Chinatown’s not dead!

by Martin Wong

I felt a little stupid trying to get people to attend last Sunday's benefit concert. Making phone calls, writing post cards, marching in the streets, and gathering at the airport--there were plenty of things that friends were doing to protest the White House's crusades against women, minorities, LGBT, immigrants, public education, the environment...

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Jan 26, 2017 Toro Y Moi

by Staff

Chaz Bundick and his creative partner Brendan Nakahara design t-shirts and talk about their design process for Yours Truly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKO300FNWXc...