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The latest issue of Brownstone, NYU's magazine devoted to minority issues, is out and it's all Asians, all the time.

Jin, was involved in a Chinatown shooting yesterday. The Post reports that Jin and another rapper were arguing at a new nightclub at 32 Mulberry St., Yellow. Jin's friend, Christopher Louie, stepped in and was shot by the other rapper's .40 caliber gun; Jin was unharmed. Rumors are that the other rapper, part of the "Ghost Shadows" gang, was jealous of Jin's success of late, including an MTV tour. Well, until he's shot 9 times, we can't begin to speculate on Jin's success or music, but the Post notes, "The 21-year-old star has already won rapping competitions where, like white Eminem before him, he has turned taunts about his ethnicity into his own rap disses." [Via Adam]

- The coolest coloring book ever: Law & Order: Coloring Book

It's encouraging to know that restaurants' efforts in objectifying women servers can go beyond Hooters type outfits and filter into even more culturally specific stereotypes. Case is point: Nightclub Lotus, which has just opened, Suzie Wong's Late Night Cafe, a reference to the movie, The World of Suzie Wong. The film is about a Caucasian artist and a Chinese prostitute, and the term "Suzie Wong" is a notorious negative stereotype - the subservient, demure, Asian whore (not unlike the white or any other color whore, but given that this was one of the first movies to star an Asian as an Asian, unlike Luise Rainier playing Chinese in The Good Earth, Suzie Wong is a turning point of sorts). Gothamist doesn't really have an issue with waitresses wearing cheongsams, but to call it Suzie Wong's Late Night Cafe... Lotus may say it's aiming for camp appeal, but then does that mean a soul food restaurant with waiters doing a Stepin Fetchit routine will be in the works, 'cause that'd be so campy.

Prudence, Slate's advice columnist, gets a letter from a woman whose husband has a thing for Asian women (the couple is Caucasian. Prudence tries to explain the appeal of Asian women: