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Happy Holidays! We should all be afraid of China – A-pop! All things Asian-y in popular culture!

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By Stacy NguyenNorthwest Asian Weekly I think because we Americans are all a little self-centered, we don’t realize that if we got caught in a knife fight with China, we would lose so hard and bleed all over the ground as we die slowly, because for every one American with a knife, there are 4.3 […]

A-pop! God, I hate Tom Cruise — Plus! Actual Asian-y goodness: Constance Wu, Alexander Hodge, Claudia Kim, Manny Jacinto

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By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly In this month’s column, I pretty much rip into stuff that many people really, really love. I’m pre-emptively sorry for trying to taint your childhood memories. Dear Abby thinks kids should have white people names Some white guy recently wrote to Abigail Van Buren, better known as the author […]

Y ’all need to stop calling Dwayne Johnson the Rock. He is a thespian! — A-pop! All things API (heavy on the PI!) in popular culture!

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By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Hey, guys! Here’s a really manly edition of A-pop! Because it just happened like that! Dave Bautista threatens to bow out of future “Guardian” installments because he is over Disney Dave Bautista is half Filipino and plays Drax in Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” franchise. The Marvel Cinematic Universe […]

A-pop! Oh-MG, Sandra better win an Emmy or else I will slash tires!

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By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly It’s been real hot! Right? I love it. In honor the beautiful weather, here’s some fire with your pop culture. Sandra Oh first Asian woman to be nominated for lead actress Emmy I don’t want to creep you out or waste your time with all of my Sandra Oh-specific […]

A-pop! — I hate Star Wars. I’m scared saying that out loud. So I’m going to run away and hide now.

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Hi, guys! This month in pop culture news, we have it all. We have research that flies in the face of decades of racist conventional wisdom. We have an Asian dream team coming together to make what will hopefully be the best romantic comedy there ever has been. We have sex cult stuff. And we also have a Vietnamese American actor who was driven off of social media because — guess why! — people were racist dicks to her.

A-pop! Man, I love the 90s! Back when it was easier to get away with racism!

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By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly This month, I’m tackling two shows that I used to love very much, but the passage of time have ravaged their faces a bit — much like how wrinkles have started to overtake mine. But, it’s never too late to put on a bit of sunscreen and just take […]

Think all Asians look alike? You’re racist! — (JK, but you def need more Asian friends)

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By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly This month, we learn that social media is powerful. Because of social media, a college professor in charge of molding young minds cannot say what is in her heart without people getting it twisted. Because of social media, we don’t need to be in Vegas to see a beautiful […]

A-pop! Halls of fame/shame — Because unadulterated praise makes people soft

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By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Top 5 A-pop hall of famers I bet you’re wondering how I picked the Hall of Famers. Really scientifically and through a rigorous point system. No, I’m just playing. It’s very biased and based on faulty intuition and logic. I chose people who I thought made a big and […]

A-pop! Watch out, people of color. In the future, we are all dead.

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By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Yo, guys, how do we feel about the word “Oriental”? I know we’ve mostly decided to stop calling human beings this, unless you are like, over 60 years old — then you get a pass, I guess. But are we still okay with calling rugs and Top Ramen Oriental? […]