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

June 8, 2018 By Stacy Nguyen

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.

Filed Under: Column: Pop Culture, Feature stories Tagged With: Ali Wong, Apop, Daniel Dae Kim, Keanu Reeves, Kelly Marie Tran, Randall Park, Sandra Oh, VOL 37 NO 24 | JUNE 9 – JUNE 15

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

January 5, 2018 By Northwest Asian Weekly

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 […]

Filed Under: Column: Pop Culture, Feature stories Tagged With: 2017, Ali Wong, Constance Wu, Daniel Dae Kim, Dwayne Johnson, Justin Lin, Mindy Kaling, Riz Ahmed, VOL 37 NO 2 | JANUARY 6 - JANUARY 12

A-POP! So over you, Academy Awards. (And Asian American newcomers on the big and small screens!)

March 11, 2016 By Vivian Nguyen

With February coming to a close, we’ve finally reached the holiest of award shows: the Oscars. Read on to see what the Academy Awards meant to Asians and other news in Hollywood this past month.

Filed Under: Column: Pop Culture Tagged With: 2016, Academy Awards, Ali Wong, Asian American, Asif Kapadia, Bao Ling, Chris Rock, Chris Smith, David Moskowitz, Dev Patel, Elizabeth Ho, Famous Black, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Kelly Marie Tran, Lee Byung-hun, Matt Hubbard, Ming Zhu, NBC, Parks Recreation, Priyanka Chopra, Southern California, Star Wars, Vol 35 No 11 | March 12 - March 18, WNPA2016

Yola Lu says she’s not the next Margaret Cho (but still hilarious)

August 18, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Nina Huang Northwest Asian Weekly She’s real. She’s funny. And she’s not trying to be the next Margaret Cho. Taiwanese American Yola Lu is a University of Washington graduate, a vegetarian, and probably one of the very few Asian Americans who aren’t pursuing their college degree to start a career. As Yola started going […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Profiles Tagged With: 2011, Ali Wong, Asian Americans, Aziz Ansari, Catch Lu, Comedy Underground, David Fung, Jackie Robinson, Nina Huang, Northwest Asian Weekly, Polly Hoang, Seattle, UW, Vol 30 No 34 | August 20 - August 26, Yola Lu, margaret cho

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