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LETTER: RE: A-POP! The Slants: Is it offensive?

May 15, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

1) The Trademark Office never claimed that organizations refused to do business with us because of our name; rather, they claimed that one event in particular (Asian American Youth Leadership Conference) cancelled our performance and my keynote due to complaints about our name. This was false – members of the AAYLC steering committee sent signed […]

Filed Under: Letters to the Editor Tagged With: 2015, AAYLC, Asian American Youth Leadership Conference, Asian Americans, Asian Week, Simon Tam, The Slants, Trademark Office, Vol 34 No 21 | May 16 - May 22

A-pop! Slants — Is the name offensive?

May 8, 2015 By Vivian Nguyen

By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly With May underway, spring has officially sprung! And so has news for all of our Asian friends in the media. From controversial band names to casting news, see what’s happened during the last month with pop culture. “The Slants” lose their appeal to register band name Simon Tam, founder […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Column: Pop Culture Tagged With: 2015, Actress Olivia Munn, Asian Americans, Brokeback Mountain, Cary Fukunaga, Chinese, Eddie Huang, First Amendment, HBO, Northwest Asian Weekly, Oregon Live, Simon Tam, The Slants, Trademark Office, Vivian Nguyen, Vol 34 No 20 | May 9 - May 15, WNPA2016, culture

The Slants are not a gimmick

October 26, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Samantha Test Northwest Asian Weekly The Slants, a Portland-based crew of five Asian Americans, put on an energetic, sweaty, and intense head-nodding-to-the-beat rock show last Saturday night, Oct. 20 at the Columbia City Theater. The band played songs off of their latest project, third album “The Yellow Album,” which won’t be released until Nov. […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2008, 2012, Aron Moxley, Asian Americans, Asian Pacific Islander, Chinatown Dance Rock, Columbia City Theater, Depeche Mode, Drummer Tyler Chen, Neon Tree, Northwest Asian Weekly, Samantha Test, Simon Young, Thai Dao, The Slants, Trademark Office, Vietnam War, Vol 31 No 44 | October 27 - November 2

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