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A-pop! Heroes and villains — Racists think they’re not racist, and Asian heroes make their debut

August 9, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly From racist music videos to Asian superheroes, July was an interesting month for Asians and pop culture. And by “interesting,” I mean equal parts disgusting and awesome. Read on to see what’s going on! Racist music video “Asian Girlz” makes many Asianz mad Los Angeles-based rock band Day Above […]

Filed Under: Column: Pop Culture Tagged With: 2013, Asian American, Asian Girlz, Chinese, Day Above Ground, Indonesian American, Joe Anselm, Justice League, Levy Tran, Los Angeles-based, Magic Mike, Olivia Munn, Securing Wang, Stan Lee-backed, Though Warner Bros, Vol 32 No 33 | August 10 - August 16, Wonder Woman, culture

A-pop! September Edition

October 12, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

A monthly column about all things Asian in popular culture By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Between fall television premieres and online dowries (you read that correctly), September saw Asians popping up in the media in random but interesting ways.

Filed Under: Column: Pop Culture Tagged With: 2012, Asian Americans, Cecil Chao Sze-tsung, Gigi Chao, Hong Kong, Los Angeles-based, Matthew Perry, Mindy Kaling, NBC, Sasha Baron Cohen, Sean Yeung, Seoul Sausage Korean Americans Chris Oh, South Asian American, Suzy Nakamura, Ted Kim, Think Bridget Jones, Total Recall, Vol 31 No 42 | October 13 - October 19, Yong Kim

Elevating game — Social media bringing rock group New Heights new fans

February 23, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly A chance meeting at a mutual friend’s benefit event during high school spawned the birth of a young rock group that was originally a Christian rock group.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Profiles Tagged With: 2011, 2012, Asian Americans, Associate Director, Brian Joo, Chris Kwak, Chris Tucker, Clara Chung, Emmitt Smith, Korean American, Lisa Ling, Los Angeles-based, Magic Johnson, New Heights, President Barack Obama, Travis Graham, Vol 31 No 9 | February 25 - March 2, White House, social media

Filipino teachers’ recruiter sued for exploitation

August 12, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (AP) — A class-action lawsuit filed Thursday accuses a Los Angeles-based company of a human trafficking scheme to bring hundreds of Filipino teachers to Louisiana public schools using exploitative contracts that charged them excessive, illegal fees …

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: AFT, Baton Rouge-area, Chris Trahan, East Baton Rouge Parish School Board, Filipino, Ingrid Cruz, LFT, Los Angeles-based, Lourdes Navarro, Mary Bauer, New Orleans, Philippines, Southern Poverty Law Center, Superintendent Charlotte Placide, United States, Universal Placement International Inc

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