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Dustin Nguyen a ‘Fool for Love,’ but also soulful and deliberate

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Actor Dustin Nguyen wanted a role that was “light and sort of fun” after playing a mentally challenged martial artist in the 2009 film “The Legend is Alive.”

Former scientist now a funny man

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Comedian Joe Wong grew up in the rural Jilin province in China during the 1980s. During this time, there was a comedy radio show named “Xiangsheng” (“Cross Talk”) that was popular.

Gender-bending APIs spotlight overlooked segment of Asian population through pageant

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That’s what the night called for at Purr, a local bar on Capitol Hill. Purr was one of the many bars that teamed up to help David Luc Nguyen

A new season of Asians: A-pop is a monthly column of all things Asian in popular culture

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Fall is shaping up to be a season of new beginnings for Asian American celebrities, and personally, I am very excited for them.

Father–son bond explored and mourned in “The Harimaya Bridge”

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Director Aaron Woolfolk’s dramatic feature, “The Harimaya Bridge,” filmed mostly in Japan, opens with a young Black man working on a painting.

Put ‘A Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop’ together, and it’s confusing

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“A Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop,” the new film from Chinese director Yimou Zhang, is his first film adapted from a Western source.

Tough road ahead in adapting hip hop to Black and Asian communities

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“Most of the rappers that I grew up listening to were Black,” said George Quibuyen, a Filipino American rapper who performs in the group Blue Scholars.

Asians to make a splash on TV — sadly, not all in a good way

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This month, it’s all about the television stars (or wannabe stars)! “K-Town” was cast and the pilot has been shot, but it hasn’t been picked up.

“Mao’s Last Dancer” is made of beauty and power

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“Mao’s Last Dancer,” directed by Bruce Beresford, tells the true story of Cunxin Li, a Chinese ballet star who comes to Houston, Texas in 1981 as an exchange student studying at the Houston Ballet. Li (played by Chi Cao, a dancer with the Birmingham Royal Ballet) steps off the plane to a welcoming committee lead by the Houston Ballet’s choreographer, Ben Stevenson (Bruce Greenwood).