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More Asians guys engaged in weird-ass murderous activity... It was really the headline that caught my eye on this one: UCSF Urinary-Tract Researcher Accused of Poisoning Colleague. Earlier this month, Benchun Liu, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California at San Francisco, was arrested for attempted murder after allegedly poisoning a colleague's drink. Liu apparently tried to

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More bad movie remake news... We knew that a Hollywood version of the Korean monster movie The Host was coming. Now the project has a producer, and his name is Gore. We recently got word that Gore Verbinski, director of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, will produce the remake, with commercial director Fredrik Bond at the helm: Verbinski Gets a HOST. The Host is about a giant squid-like

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This past weekend, the Facing Race conference in Oakland, CA brought together over 1,000 activists, writers, academics, artists and community organizers to talk about the future of the racial justice movement in the U.S. The conference was organized by the Applied Research Center, the largest racial justice think tank in the country. If you missed the conference, there are a bunch of cool videos

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If you're in New York, you might want to check out The Betrayal, which opens this Friday, November 21 at the IFC Center. The film, directed by acclaimed cinematographer Ellen Kuras, and co-directed by Thavisouk Phrasavath, is about the struggles of a Laotian family as they flee their country and immigrate to the United States. Shot over a 25-year period, and incorporating archival footage,

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Some movie casting news... Variety reports that Camille Mana and Julia Ling have been cast in the indie comedy High School, starring Adrien Brody and Michael Chiklis: Cast's 'High' on school. The movie's about a high school valedictorian whose first hit of pot coincides with the school's random drug test the next day. Camille and Julia will play students. Julia Ling has had a recurring role on

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Mark your calendars and make plans to be in front of your computer next Tuesday. Hip hip trio Far East Movement, who always know how to have a good time, are throwing an online release party for their highly-anticipated new album Animal. No matter where you are—East Coast, West Coast, Midwest, Dirty South—you're all invited to join in on the festivities through the power of the world wide web.

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Oh no they didn't. Last week, Sky TV golf announcers Richard Boxall and Bruce Critchley were working the HSBC Champions event in Shanghai. You know, just chatting up on live television, not at all trying to be racist and stupid... yet some how succeeding in the most cringeworthy way. At one point, they were talking about rising American star Anthony Kim, and Boxall made this asinine comment:"

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Check this out... Ian tells me that he's trying to get on MTV's Real World. You know, the show where seven strangers live in a house and have their lives taped. Longtime viewers of the original "reality" television show know that in the sixteen years and 21 seasons of the show (has it really been that long?) there has never been an Asian American male on the show. Never! So 21-year-old Ian

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The Seattle Mariners have reportedly hired Don Wakamatsu, former bench coach for Oakland, as their new manager: Source: M's to name A's bench coach Wakamatsu as manager. If I'm not mistaken, this actually makes Wakamatsu the very first Asian American manager in professional baseball. A former major league catcher, Wakamatsu spent four season managing in the minors, never higher than Double-A.

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Whoa. Check out this story about 7-year-old b-boy Jalen Testerman: 7-year-old break dancer is on top of the whirl. The second grader from Des Moines, Washington has been breaking for three years, ever since he saw the movie You Got Served at a cousin's house. The first move he apparently tried was a headspin, much to his dad's horror. But he kept at it. Jalen's parents started posting online

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I've been doing some traveling, and kind of out of it, so I hadn't heard about this until late yesterday... Jing Hua Wu, who was recently fired from his Silicon Valley job as an engineer, was arrested on Saturday for the triple murder of his former colleagues at SiPort. After losing his job last week, Wu went back to his office and opened fire, killing company executives Sid Agrawal, Brian Pugh

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If you're in Los Angeles this week, you might want to check out the 12th Annual KASA Freshman Dance Off, presented by the Southern California Korean College Student Association and Entitled Entertainment. Basically, it's a major Asian Amerian student event where you'll see lots of kids dancing their ass off. This year, there are eleven schools participating, along with a special guest

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This sucks, but actually not surprising. Since the November 4 election, law enforcement officially have reportedly seen more potentially threatening writings, internet postings and other activity directed at Barack Obama than has been seen with any past president-elect: Obama has more threats than other presidents-elect. Threats against a new president historically spike right after an election

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It's been a really rocky year for Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang. After turning down a $47.5 billion takeover offer from Microsoft six months ago, the company saw its stock value plummet to its lowest levels in five years. Today, amidst mounting pressure from investors and Yahoo's board, Yang announced that he would step aside as chief executive: Yahoo's Yang decides he's no longer the right CEO.

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Prime Baby, the latest project from American Born Chinese graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang, is currently up on The Funny Pages section of the New York Times magazine. It's a short story that'll be serialized every Sunday for 18 weeks. They just posted Chapter 2. So far, it's pretty amusing. Check it out here. And if you haven't yet read American Born Chinese, you must. I insist.

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Here's a cool blog post by pastor Soong-Chan Rah over on Jim Wallis' God's Politics blog, on why he could relate, as a Korean American to Barack Obama's identity and message: I Am Barack Obama.I Am Barack Obama by Soong-Chan Rah Whenever John McCain and Sarah Palin would ask: "Who is Barack Obama?" I would cringe. The implication to me was pretty clear. Obama is an outsider. Obama is not your

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Last week in Los Angeles, police detectives announced the arrest of a suspect, 24-yea-old Steven Hyun Kwon, in the shooting death of Min Woo Cho, whose body was found near a freeway offramp in July. He had been reported missing on June 12. A former roommate of the victim, Kwon had apparently been with Cho at a Koreatown bar the night before his disappearance. Last month, he was located at a

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Heard some news about Jet Li's next project... The action star will join Jason Statham (again) and none other than Sylvester Stallone (who is also directing) in The Expendables: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham and Jet Li to Team Up For The Expendables. The story follows an "expendable" team of action dudes, hired to do jobs that no one else can or will, who are sent to infiltrate a South

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TIME has a pretty awesome photo essay China's Bao Xishun, who at 7-feet-9-inches, holds the distinction of being the world's tallest man: The Tale of Bao Xishun, The World's Tallest Man. It was interesting to learn that unlike previous holders of the title, Bao doesn't have gigantism, the growth disorder that contributes to extreme height. He's just naturally that tall. That's crazy!

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Some news out of the U.K.... A BBC radio presenter was recently fired after making offensive remarks about South Asian taxi drivers. Sam Mason, former host of the BBC Radio Bristol afternoon show, asked a cab firm not to send an Asian driver to pick up her daughter because "a guy with a turban on is going to freak her out": BBC fire presenter Sam Mason after she demands non-Asian taxi driver.

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There must be a lot of CSI fans out there... I heard from about twenty people telling me that last week's crime scene investigation was set in Las Vegas' Koreatown (I didn't even know that Las Vegas had a Koreatown. Wait. Does it?) which means they had a bunch of Asian characters populating the show for a moment. You know, the Koreatown Episode! Guest stars included James Kyson Lee, Sung

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My man Ryan, the guy behind empowerment apparel company Blacklava, tells me he's got a new t-shirt design in protest of the passage of Proposition 8, California's same-sex marriage ban: Prop H8. There's also a women's version of the shirt. Printed on high-quality American Apparel shirts, he's selling them at the crazy cheap price of $9.95 because he believes in this cause. You'll also get a

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This will most likely be gone by sometime Sunday, but there's a leaked teaser trailer for the new Star Trek movie currently floating around the web. It's definitely leaked, because it looks like someone literally pointed a video camera at a movie screen and hit record. Crappy bootleg-ness aside, it's a pretty cool trailer. We get a very brief glimpse of John Cho as Sulu at around the 1:27

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Who says classical musicians can't rock? Film composer George Shaw—a reader of this website and a generally nice guy—always wondered what it would be like to rock out on stage in a rock band. He had the chance to find out. On MTV, no less, with some of his Rock Bandin' friends. This Saturday, November 15, you can watch George's brief moment of rock stardom when he and his band Mozart's Biatch

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On the heels of a historic presidential election, the Facing Race conference, presented by the Applied Research Center, is happening right now in Oakland. The event is a gathering of people of different races from across the country to discuss a myriad of issues and to outline a vision for the future of racial justice. Featuring a packed schedule of speakers, panels and workshops, the

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