By Alia Marsha Northwest Asian Weekly On Thursday, Jan. 30, the ASUW Asian Student Commission hosted a talk by Phil Yu, founder of the famous blog Angry Asian Man. Yu is not a very angry person after all. Rather, he likes to describe himself as a pretty chill man. However, as he pointed out that […]
A-pop!’s API hall of fame/shame! — The 5 winners and 5 losers of 2011
By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly This year’s list of the top five winners in pop culture sees an emergence not only of new faces that lit up the entertainment industry this past year, but also of a few older faces that returned after being out of the spotlight for some time.
Hit singer Jimmy Wong on Alexandra Wallace and why angry responses are unproductive
Last month, former UCLA student Alexandra Wallace posted an ill-conceived YouTube video complaining about Asian students who talked
Editorial: A little mercy for Anti-Asian YouTube ranter?
We took our time in responding to the Alexandra Wallace anti-Asian YouTube video because we wanted to see the whole story unfold before casting judgment.