New York magazine's cover story is a feature about "What happens to all the Asian-American overachievers when the test-taking ends?", a follow-up of sorts to the attention that Amy Chua's parenting memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, received for many of its strict (some might say insane) ideas and anecdotes about raising successful children. And it turns out that the magnet high school Stuyvesant, which has a 72% Asian population, isn't the greatest launching ground for its Asian students to bridge cultural gaps.
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Asian Stuyvesant Alums Bemoan Asian Wackness
Yassky Gets Nasty on Liu in Comptroller's Race Finale
David Yassky is best known in some political circles as the man who was the only white candidate in 2006 for the Congressional seat being vacated by Major Owens, leading some to accuse him of racial carpetbagging. Now he has the unenviable task of trying to pull an upset in Tuesday's comptroller runoff election against John Liu, blocking him from being the first Asian-American elected to citywide office.
Pencil This In
THEATER: The National Asian American Theatre Company is known for creating adventurous theater with an all-Asian American performing plays that often have little to do with Asian Americans. Their newest production is Blind Mouth Singing by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas; it uses a watery set and live music to tell a story of an “overly strict matriarch; her young son Reiderico who sneaks out of the house to visit his best friend who lives at the bottom of a well; her sister who treats syphilis patients in the open-air market; and her older son who bullies everything within his reach.” Martin Denton writes: “Authentic magic happens only rarely in the theatre… I'm talking about those rare wonderful moments when we see one thing on stage with our eyes, but our hearts tell us we're seeing something entirely different. Blind Mouth Singing is filled with such moments of magic.” John Del Signore
The Cinecultist's Weekly Repertory Pick: Eastern Experience Edition
July 19 - 28, Asia Society
Times Weddings Highlights: 42 Years in the Making
This Memorial Day weekend offers the most 2007 weddings so far in the NY Times' Weddings & Celebrations section: A whopping 43 weddings! But, of all the announcements, our favorite is the one of Thea Spyer and Edith Windsor. Spyer, a 75-year-old psychologist in Manhattan, and Windsor, a 77-year-old retired computer systems analyst for IBM, were married in Toronto earlier this week, but actually met decades ago.
Dr. Spyer and Ms. Windsor met in 1965 in New York at Portofino, a restaurant in the West Village.more ›
Forget the Ni Hao Ma's, It's John Liu Vs. Rosie O'Donnell
is available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuTspbPmV_g.
When Hep B Attacks
Health scare alert! One in five Asian New Yorkers might be infected with hepatitis B according to the Daily News. Scared yet? OK, so it's not quite that bad, the numbers are probably a bit exaggerated, but the threat is real.
Opinionist: Theatre Review: Cowboy vs. Samurai
On Sundays, Gothamist runs opinion pieces on issues relevant to life in New York. The views expressed below are solely those of the author.
Protesting Details
Tomorrow, untold numbers of Asians and others will be protesting the controversial 'Gay or Asian' article in Details magazine. More information about the protest can be found here, but expect to see some neatly printed signs at from noon till 1PM in front of the Fairchild Publications building at 7 West 34th Street. In the spirit of Whitney McNally's horribly misguided "spoof," Gothamist imagines that Fairchild Publications is passing around a memo like this:more ›
If you hear someone yelling, "File Whitney McNarry!" that's really "Fire Whitney McNally!" - the Asians sometimes have trouble with the r's and l's. And stop by HR to pick up your coolie hat; they are being distributed so you can enter the building without getting pelted with pelted with thousand year eggs or egg rolls. And we recommend you watch Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Kill Bill if you haven't. They know kara-TAY, kung pao chicken, and some other violence-without-weapons techniques. Remember, Asian women can be fierce - the lotus blossom thing is a trick.If anyone goes, take pictures and let us know if protestors are eating Pocky and Vitasoy, okay?
Charlie's Angels Race Card
The Media Action Network for Asian Americans is up in arms against the creators of Charlie's Angels for missing out on the opportunity for giving Lucy Liu's character an Asian parent by casting funny man John Cleese. They have an opinion piece in the L.A. Times: [Via Movie City News]
Better Luck Tomorrow
The upcoming release of Better Luck Tomorrow has critics and cultural scholars buzzing. A drama wealthy, Ivy League-poised Asian American teenagers who descend into crime, the film is sparking debate about how Asian Americans are supposed to be perceived. Some feel it's great, finally a way to get people seeing Asians as something else besides the model minority, while others are offended that Asians are being shown in an unflattering matter. At 2002's Sundance Film Festival, there was a heated argument about the film. Roger Ebert wrote about it and his participation:
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