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A-pop! Three white ladies Columbus’d mahjong … and other stories!

January 28, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Welcome to the first 2021 edition of A-pop! I have some reheated leftovers from the end of 2020 for you (mmm, I love leftovers!) as well as some shiny new items to share. Let’s get to it!

Filed Under: Column: Pop Culture, Feature stories Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 5 | JANUARY 30 - FEBRUARY 5

A-pop’s 2020 hall of fame/shame—The brightest and the very worst—from a truly craptastic year

December 17, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Man, I can’t wait for 2020 to be over, too! Writing this roundup was kind of hard because the high points were hard to come by, the low points were plentiful, and everything—when it comes to Asian popular culture, constantly revolved around the pandemic and how every white person thinks that Asians are the problem. (Instead of white people’s pervasive racism being the problem.)

Filed Under: Column: Pop Culture, Feature stories Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 51 | DECEMBER 19 - DECEMBER 25

A-pop! On dogs, public-shaming, accidental racism, and true love!

November 25, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

“The Pack” is a reality show featuring dogs and their owners (or as I like to say, their human mommies and daddies). Each team goes around the world competing in athletic challenges for a chance to win $500,000.

Filed Under: Column: Pop Culture, Feature stories Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 48 | NOVEMBER 28 - DECEMBER 4

A-pop! — White people who do and say racist things — and the white friends who love and forgive them!

August 13, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

In this column, there’s a lot of white nonsense. You have been forewarned!

Filed Under: Column: Pop Culture, This week's issue Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 33 | AUGUST 15 - AUGUST 21

Black Lives Matter (which is the theme of this A-pop column)

June 4, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Hey, everyone. I know that it feels a little bit weird to consume pop culture news this week when most of our news focus should be on the George Floyd protests and furthering the conversation about why, above all, Black Lives Matter —as well as the hard work that […]

Filed Under: Column: Pop Culture Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 23 | JUNE 6 - JUNE 12

Scandals and pop news in the time of Corona — A-pop! API things in popular culture!

March 19, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

In a video, she said, “Yeah, till July sounds like a bunch of bullshit. I’m sorry. It’s a virus, I get it. I respect it. But at the same time, like, even if everyone gets it — like, yeah, people are gonna die. Which is terrible. But inevitable?”

Filed Under: Column: Pop Culture, Feature stories Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 12 | MARCH 21 - MARCH 27

A-pop! Hall of Fame/Shame: Who made it big in 2019, and who fell flat on their faces!

December 27, 2019 By Stacy Nguyen

2019 saw Asians get more visibility in popular culture than ever before — some of it good, some of it not so good.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Column: Pop Culture, Feature stories Tagged With: 2019, 2020, DECEMBER 28, JANUARY 3, VOL 39 NO 1

A-POP! IS JOHN CHO OKAY?! Plus, a CEO strikes back at his haters

November 8, 2019 By Stacy Nguyen

This column, I feel like, is largely about how Asian people fall prey to things out of their control.

Filed Under: Column: Pop Culture, Feature stories Tagged With: 2019, VOL 38 NO 46 | NOVEMBER 9 - NOVEMBER 15

Man, it’s hard being a man. I get it now, Quentin Tarantino, Dalai Lama, South Korean government, and dude who will play Shang-Chi.

August 16, 2019 By Stacy Nguyen

This month, we learn that it’s pretty difficult being a really smart man who has a lot of answers—but no one will listen to all the smart things you are saying! WTF!

Filed Under: Column: Pop Culture, Feature stories Tagged With: 2019, VOL 38 NO 34 | AUGUST 17 - AUGUST 23

A-pop! Constance Wu seems humble

June 7, 2019 By Stacy Nguyen

While the “Crazy Rich Asians” fever pitch was happening last summer, I was very withholding in my appreciation, very careful and moderated. I like to think it was because a part of me intuited that nearly a year later, we would be watching Constance Wu try to torch the show that first gave her a shot at mainstream success. Ha!

Filed Under: Column: Pop Culture, Feature stories Tagged With: 2019, VOL 38 NO 24 | JUNE 8 - JUNE 14

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