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You are here: Home / Archives for Kelly Marie Tran

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

Kelly Marie Tran steps into Star Wars stardom in ‘Last Jedi’

December 15, 2017 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By SANDY COHEN AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kelly Marie Tran still can’t quite believe she’s in a Star Wars movie. The 28-year-old was about to give up on her dreams of becoming an actress when she landed a breakthrough role in “The Last Jedi.” So after years of toiling and hoping and […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles, Feature stories Tagged With: 2017, Kelly Marie Tran, VOL 36 NO 51 | DECEMBER 16 - DECEMBER 22

A-pop! Asians, you need to stop saying the n-word in your music

June 23, 2017 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Brian Imanuel is a 17-year-old Indonesian of Chinese descent who happens to be really, really talented at rapping.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Column: Pop Culture, Feature stories Tagged With: 2017, Cowboy Bebop, Kelly Marie Tran, LINDA PARK, RICH CHIGGA, SWET SHOP BOYS, VOL 36 NO 26 | JUNE 24 - JUNE 30, Vanity Fair

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

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