Triscribe

Category: Brooklyn

  • The Days After

    No, I’ve never seen the movie “The Day After Tomorrow” – somehow, the idea of NYC wrecked in a new Ice Age (and this movie probably came out some time after the bad snowstorm of 2003) didn’t appeal to me and I wasn’t in the mood for the emoting of Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal.

    And, according to imdb, there was a 1983 tv movie with the title  “The Day After” (something about a nuclear fallout and starring a bunch of big names and familiar character actors like Jason Robards, John Lithgow, Steven Gutenberg, JoBeth Williams, and John Collum); I have no memory of that one.  And, based on the summary on the imdb page, it sounds really depressing. We’re no where near that close to world dissolution.

    Count your blessings!  Breathe!

    But, the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy incurred a bunch of mixed feelings. The headline of this NY Times’ article by James Barron and Ken Belson, “Hardship Strains Emotions in New York,” works for me because there has been so much going on.  I think it was from the NY Times somewhere, maybe a Thomas Friedman column (don’t hold me to it!), where it was said that the nation was in post-traumatic stress since 9/11/01, and I often feel that’s the case in New York City; the stress of the hurricane’s aftermath only emphasizes that to me.

    Dazed, since one never imagines that this much damage would happen to the tri-state area; persistence, since one can’t just give up; maybe even inspiration, since so many have risen to action.  We’re pulling through; we’re getting there.  (almost a personal motto of mine as it is).

    There has been a lot of impatience – I wonder if the Internet and social media, and cell phones, only increased the feelings and expectations of instant gratification? Or that we’ve become so dependent on electricity? (easy for me to say, when my neighborhood in Brooklyn was minimally effected).  Then again, a lot the craziness could have been avoided with a lot more planning and better communication of what happened and what expectations to have and why things will be.

    There’s the sense of question for what works in the context – what respects the community? (such as it is, since in a dense urban context, sometimes “community” is hard to find).  For example: do we hold the marathon or not?  Unlike 9/11/01, we did not have have a six-week odd to deal with stuff; we had only days. I consider the marathon to be a great NYC thing, and I look at Meb Keflezighi as an American inspiration for being an American elite marathoner (not too many of those for quite awhile), but there was just not enough time for the NYC Marathon.  We could have civil conversation, but the controversy itself became a distraction from moving forward and helping each other out.

    How do we balance interests and feelings and needs and wants?

    Everybody feels forgotten, and Manhattan looked like two cities, with the half/third of the island in darkness (even described as a “dead zone”) and the north end looking no worse for wear.  You got to feel empathy for Staten Island, Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn, and the Rockaways and Breezy Point in Queens, and there was so much going on.

    But, there are reasons for everything: gas shortages are because the port was closed; the port needs electricity; there are places with no electricity; etc.

    Gas? Well, we’re getting there…

    Electricity? In Manhattan – almost there!  So looking forward to near normal MTA service; MTA is doing quite a job! (amazing that I’m even saying that).

    Semblance of normality is near.  In the meantime, see how you can help.  There are a lot of possibilities. Brokelyn has a good list, wnyc has been a great resource (see here for wnyc’s list of ways to help; also, their tumblr page is terrific), and the libraries are open (NYPL, BPL, and Queens).  NYS Bar Association announced a storm relief effort.

    Oh, and FC is so right on the mark on Facebook: NY1 has been on it and has done a great job.

    I’m not forgetting NJ.  I’ll be out there again soon, I’ve no doubt.

    Don’t forget Eastern Standard Time; we fall back an hour tonight.

    Don’t forget to vote next Tuesday. The Civil War didn’t stop Election Day; our legal rights should still be exercised. Hell, you can still vote by paper, if necessary (not that I’m suggesting that it has to be, but that depends on your district’s situation). Check your district/board of Election/county clerk’s office.

    So, hang in there, friends!

  • Hurricane Sandy 2012

    Guess this fits the Halloween thing: Hurricane Sandy’s just about here, still early yet, and it’s creepy.  Stay safe!

    Congratulations to the San Francisco Giants for winning the World Series 2012!  (big yay for ex-Mets Marco Scutaro and Angel Pagan).

    Since I’m catching up my triscribe posts, let’s just say that seeing the new Barclays Center takes some getting used to.  Traffic patterns still look strange and could be smoother (from my non-driver perspective). Brooklyn Nets? Hmm.  I’m of the generation that rooted for the Knicks.

    And, then this news about the Islanders coming to Brooklyn in 2014 or 2015?  While it’s nice that the Islanders want to get in on the fun at Barclay Center and Brooklyn is the far end of the “island,” and they remain in NYS, (a) there’s still no hockey season in 2012, so do something about that, NHL, and (b) I’m still planning to root for the NY Rangers (if this season ever starts already).

    Let’s go, NY Giants! What a season so far! (and with the real refs back for some time now).

    Let’s not be bored: some more Gangnam Style!  Here’s a link to Gangnam Style with Robots!

    A Gangnam Style mashup with that other song of 2012, Call Me Maybe (h/t: Generasian’s tumblr, at http://generasian.tumblr.com/day/2012/09/21)

    To distract myself from one of the presidential debates this month, I watched this Gangnam Style parody of… Vanilla Ice and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.  It almost amazed me.  Vanilla Ice? Really?

    Here’s a laugh: the side-by-side Obama and Romney parodies of “Gangnam Style.” http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/10/03/mitt-romney-vs-barack-obama-whose-gangnam-style-parody-video-is-better/

    I’ve really scaled back with my tv viewing, and still think that the nuttiest reality tv is the presidential/vice presidential debates.  While the results of Election 2012 remains to be seen, I suppose I should appreciate that the debates gave some food for thought.  For instance:

    All the Big Bird jokes reminded people about PBS, the jokes about the military reminded people (somewhat?) about the budget questions relating to the military, and let’s not forget the women (to paraphrase Abigail Adams, when she wrote to her husband John when he went to assist with the writing of the US Constitution).

    The parodies of Joe Biden v. Paul Ryan in their one VP debate were too easy to target.

    The endless sports analogies during the debates.

    Realizing that the best way to talk about foreign policy is to… not talk about foreign policy.

    The quibbles and the talking heads, the drinking games and bingo games – and the hypocrisy… (well, perhaps I shouldn’t make my politics too obvious).

    Oh, and let’s not forget about the economy, and war, and how the world will go to hell in a handbasket.  We seemed to have forgotten about climate change, but I guess we can only expect so much from the presidential candidates.

    What’s among the really shocking: that the federal subsidy to PBS is the equivalence of SIX HOURS of what the Pentagon spends. I think this is about perspective, Mr. Romney.  I think – to Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama – we need to grasp a lot about perspective. Just saying…

    Random historical thing to note, from Slate: Nathaniel Hawthorne was a Whig Party hack, who helped his friend, US President Franklin Pierce. Really? Fun fact: Barbara Bush, and thus former President George W. Bush, is distantly related to Franklin Pierce.  Presidential stuff can be fun! (even when, in reality, it’s not).

    And in the category of “Well, who knew?” Turns out that White House Honey Ale is a pretty good beer, according to Brooklyn Brewery’s brewmaster Garrett Oliver and the NY Times liquor critic Eric Asimov.

    Other fun facts: Sesame Street fun facts! (from the Atlantic).  I knew about Oscar being once orange, but I had no idea that Giancarlo Esposito used to be a recurring character on Sesame Street as Big Bird’s camp counselor back in the early 1980’s.

    Check out Cookie Monster and Grover in their movie parodies, over at Entertainment Weekly!

    2012 appears to be a year of anniversaries: ex., 25th anniversary of “The Princess Bride” (check out the great interview on NPR’s All Things Considered with Mandy Patinkin, of the famous line: “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” – Mandy Patinkin, “The Princess Bride.”)

    In time for the 25th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation, back in September, my sister and I caught the Star Trek Mixtape at the Paley Center, in time for the 25th anniversary of Next Generation. They aired the “Inner Light” episode at the end, a total Patrick Stewart classic (the “I should have been nominated for an Emmy for this particular effort” – quite a thing to watch after the end of the Next Generation run and realizing what a character Picard was/is).

    The episode also reminded me of this great video on YouTube, for the 40th ann’y of Trek, which used the song from that episode and clips to make you love Trek all over again (previously posted somewhere here on triscribe; see below the embedded item). Also, check out a list of what consists of TNG’s legacy (h/t: Time.com).  Enjoy!

    Which reminds me… I will start feeling sad with tv series leaving us soon (Fringe is in its last season and it’s been an upheaval of dystopic sadness; and when will “Community” be back, so we can say goodbye; NBC is unfair!)… Back to the hurricane…

  • Brooklyn Book Festival 2012

    This past Sunday, the Brooklyn Book Festival was great; great weather and great turnout.  A little recap:

    I had a late start, arriving far later than I had intended (I’m not a morning person and life, of course, had some disruption). I bought a book of collected Poetry in Motion poems in postcards from the Poetry Society of America table.  Such a nice find!

    I collected a bunch of brochures on organizations and sampled a couple of panels.  Sometimes I wonder about the wisdom of getting all that stuff, but then again, I get to learn about publishers and not-for-profits that I might one day want to support (say, if I were to win the lottery).

    The panels I checked out included the following:

    “Fright Write” panel, moderated by Sarah Weinman (on tumblr, “Off on a Tangent,” and previously of “Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind“), with panelists J.R. Angelella (author of Zombie), Victor LaValle (The Devil in Silver), and Chase Novak (Breed). This was a fascinating discussion on suspense and the modern take on monsters – and what the monsters say more about our society.  I had especially wanted to check out this panel since (in no particular order) (a) it was hosted at my Alma Mater Law School, (b) I’ve noticed the publicity for Breed in the newspapers (like Janet Maslin’s book review in the NY Times, and Novak’s really Scott Spencer,  with NPR coverage!) and in the subway, and (c) I’ve also noticed the publicity for Lavalle, who’s in the middle of the bookstores circuit.  I’m not into the horror/suspense genre, but afterward, I was tempted to add these guys to my perpetually long to-read list.

    I also caught a little bit of “The Center for Fiction Presents Beyond Earth,” wherein Naomi Novik (Temeraire series), N.K. Jemisin (the Inheritance trilogy), and Rick Bowes (From the Files of the Time Rangers) read brief selections from their works and discussed the art of world-building in fantasy writing and beyond; moderated by Noreen Tomassi, The Center for Fiction.  I’m not into fantasy/alternate worlds stuff, but figured I’d check it out since I couldn’t get to check out “The Fragility of Electability: Campaigns, Character, and Messing with Texas,” at Borough Hall, where one could have seen the amazing Ta-Nehisi Coates moderating a discussion with Gail Collins, Jodi Kantor, and John MacArthur (Borough Hall was packed for the attendees for this one and basically “sold out”; oh well; Jodi Kantor’s book The Obamas is still on my to-read list). 

    I didn’t get to stay long for the fantasy readings though, as I wanted to meet up with friends and thus I joined my friends FC and P for the “Eats Empire” panel, which had Lowell Hawthorne (his book, The Baker’s Son), the father of Golden Krust, and food historian Robin Schulman (her book, Eat the City) discussing the impact of food on the local economy and urban revitalization; moderated by Carlo Scissura, CEO of Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. 

    This panel was quite good.  Food inspires a lot of thought, so to speak, since the inequity in food access and the difficulties of food businesses are such topical stuff lately.  Questions like: how does a company like Golden Krust go from bringing a taste of Jamaica as a niche and to the mainstream; what does a family business do when the next generation does or doesn’t want to take over; what about the changing demographics in the community? And, what about the whole Whole Foods versus local supermarkets dilemma – less supermarkets means less service or options (as seen in Brooklyn with the recent closings of Key Food and Met Food – links to the Daily News’ reports of such) – and then what? 

    Actually, now I’m beginning to wonder if Schulman’s book is going to be on my to read list (then again, I never got around to reading Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation, since I couldn’t be sure how much I could stomach – yes, pun intended). 

    I sadly missed the panel/readings with the Poets Laureate (Tina Chang, Brooklyn Poet Laureate; Billy Collins, US Poet Laureate 2001-2003; Philip Levine, US Poet Laureate 2011-2012; and Ishmael Islam, NYC Youth Poet Laureate), and Tony Danza appearance, not to mention the appearances of Pete Hamill and Edwidge Danticat.

    Anyway, bottom line is that it was a great Brooklyn Book Festival. A whole load of stuff and a great sense of community support. 

    And, up this coming Sunday is the Atlantic Antic, the biggest street festival.  Brooklyn’s the place to be!

    (cross-posted over at sswslitinmotion.tumblr.com)

  • Marching On In September 2012

    Because the summer hit won’t completely go away, and because the conductor of this orchestral/choral version of “Call Me Maybe,” is an APA, of course I’ll share this (saw this on Facebook via a friend). As the linked article by Edwin P. Sallan notes,

    What should make this version of particular interest to us is the fact that its conductor, 22-year-old Arianne Abela is actually a Filipina, a niece of noted stage actor Bart Guingona. Arianne’s parents migrated to the US before she was born and she also has a 14-year-old sister named Krista who actually edited the video.

    In a 2008 article published by the Daily Hampshire Gazette, Arianne was born with physical disabilities brought about by a rare condition called amniotic banding syndrome, which caused her left leg to be amputated. Some of her fingers on both hands are either missing or fused together and there are toes missing on her right foot.

    Thankfully, those physical defects didn’t stop her from pursuing a career in music successfully as she went on to graduate at the Yale School of Music and Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

    Very cool!

    FC shared this interesting item over on Facebook: Rachel L. Swarns writes in the NY Times about how second or third generation Americans try to hold on to their heritage via food.  It’s a fascinating and bittersweet article – we want to remember what our grandparents or parents made, but assimilation is hard to fight and maybe we can’t quite get the food to taste the same or it gets Americanized (or we might have even grown up with Americanized versions of the food because of lack of ingredients or whatnot).

  • Taking a Pause; Remember and Reflect

    As we did last year.

    Try to remember the kind of September

    When life was slow and oh, so mellow.

    Try to remember the kind of September

    When grass was green and grain was yellow.

    -“Try to Remember,” from The Fantasticks.

    (cross-posted over at sswslitinmotion.tumblr.com)

  • August 2012: Farewell to the London Olympics 2012

    Well, it has been too long.  Dust off triscribe a little and do a little blogging…

    An Olympic wrap up (oh, come on, why not; it just ended this past Sunday night and surely we’re all still in Olympic withdrawal?).

    Of course I got all excited for the the quadrennial (yep, I looked it up) craziness that is the Olympics. I kind of liked the mascots from Beijing and I really liked the mascots from Vancouver. Didn’t get into the London mascots – they do lack that furry cuteness thing that sells boatloads of products (see here for this Slate post on Olympic mascots). Guess the British Olympic Committee didn’t want to do the usual Lion and Unicorn thing?

    On the other hand, the photo of Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt prancing with the mascots, after he won the gold – that was kind of funny and priceless.

    The Opening Ceremony was definitely something weird and different. Director Danny Boyle bringing in the (fake) Queen to jump out of a helicopter with a parachute (along side Daniel Craig’s James Bond) – well – really?  Stunt doubles?  The Queen?  Oh well.  And, sure, I get that you want to celebrate Bond the British icon, but how silly to be timed before the next movie.

    I did kind of liked the whole celebration of evolution of pastoral Britain to Industrial Revolution, with actor Kenneth Branagh  and odd performance arts stuff.

    I was a little pissed with the NBC broadcast (they apparently cut a moment of silence and their context of explanations wasn’t very good).

    And, I thought that it was weird that Danny Boyle chose to celebrate the British National Health Care system and British children’s literature (the latter was something I understood; the former – not really).  Like everybody else, I didn’t know what to make of the jumping in the bed kids (who are taken care of by the national health people and then somehow dream of … Voldemort. Nice of J.K. Rowling to make her appearance though).

    The formal parade of nations was mostly fun, with the usual loads of useless trivia from Matt Lauer, Meredith Vieira, and Bob Costas; but I felt exhausted by watching those poor lines of volunteers drumming and dancing to any beat.  That the audio system kept blasting loads of British pop was a relief surely – Amy Winehouse, BeeGees, U2, Eric Clapton, etc., to keep those drummers’ energy going.  I really gave the Brits credit for having a pretty awesome soundtrack.

    Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean? Really? But, not Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry?  And, the 1st presentation of many of the endless broadcast of the music from “Chariots of Fire.”

    In the end, you couldn’t beat Sir Paul McCartney, who led the biggest sing along of “Hey Jude” at the end of the Opening Ceremony.  Although, really, Danny Boyle, all of that Opening Ceremony stuff made me want to watch “Trainspotting” again, versus the “Slumdog Millionaire” – the campy “We love the United Kingdom” and optimism and hope – it got to be a bit much and made me yearn for the crazy Scotland of “Trainspotting.”

    On the other hand, Boyle did an impressive job of showing off the diversity of modern British demographics, with all the different people dancing and making the Opening Ceremony possible.

    The Olympics itself was great stuff.  Criticizing NBC’s broadcast became something of a sport in and of itself.  I could pile on, but I’ll choose not to waste more of the Internet on that.

    (oh, ok, some rambling here: hated the dubious amount of limited live stuff at the beginning of the Olympics; the schizophrenic “Here’s gymnastics/cycling/back to volleyball” rotation at night, even though I understand you’d rather not have us sit through five hours of a regular session of gymnastics by itself – but I hated how I had no context and no understanding of how, say, the British men won a bronze in gymnastics; and mindless storytelling and controversy generation – which was a shame, because when the story of an athlete was actually told, it got to be told well – and not just the American athletes’ stories).

    If the primetime NBC coverage is going to be a highlights show, because everything already happened (you know, because of time zone differences), then please be a great highlights show, not a half-ass one.  I pretty much agreed with NPR’s Linda Holmes on her post on the coverage.

    NY Times sports bloggers posted this great item of the US Swim team doing their own routine of Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe.”

     

    I’m probably not going to be the first or last to say this, but the US Swim team is made up of some ridiculously attractive people. Hmm.

    Sure, there was Michael Phelps and his drive for Olympics glory.  But, because this is triscribe, I especially got to give a hand to Lia Neal and Nathan Adrian for their Olympics swimming efforts.  Lia Neal is the 2nd African-American swimmer to make the team, but also half-Chinese (see here on the profile of her by NY Times’ William Rhoden – h/t: FC via Facebook); Neal probably is way more fluent in Chinese than most of us on triscribe, I’d hazard guessing.  Nathan Adrian is also half-Chinese. Hapas!

    Oh, and other great Olympics stories: David Boudia, winning the gold after a terrible earlier round of diving; Ashton Eaton in the decathalon; Mo Farah in the long  distance running; Oscar Pistorius of South Africa and his amazing legs; and of course Gabby Douglas for winning all-around gold in women’s gymnastics – the first African-American woman to do this, with a Chinese-American coach (an American story indeed!).

    It also never ceases to amaze me that the Olympics makes me pay attention to sports that I otherwise wouldn’t care about.  I caught snippets of the synchronized swimming; thought those water polo men were buff; and while I still don’t understand trampoline, BMX biking (which was kind of entertaining) or that other cycling stuff (looking at you, team pursuit), I couldn’t pull away from the tv either.

    A moment when I felt old watching the Olympics: I was watching the diving and saw USA’s Troy Dumais (finally won a bronze in 2012) and Canada’s Alexandre Despatie (Montreal’s own). I was all “Hey, haven’t they been at it for a real long time now?”; then I checked online and it turned out that they’ve both been in Olympics since 2000. Wow. Good for them. (see here for a poignant story on Despatie from the Montreal Gazette).

    Heartwarming essay by NY Times Frank Bruni on “The Soul of the Olympics” – how, even for a brief time, the Olympics gives us hope.

    British rock/pop/fashion was totally celebrated during the Closing Ceremony.  I didn’t have much to say on the fashion, but I mostly liked the music.  It turned out that watching it live streaming online was far more comprehensive, since (of course) NBC messed up with the editing (you might not care for some of the bands, but I’d just like a full show, with no stupid editing. Or a half hour cutaway to a pilot of a sitcom I won’t watch).  And, how did this become the Olympics of Ryan Seacrest? (oh well; here’s to the present/future of American tv).

    If it wasn’t obvious there: I really wasn’t happy that NBC did what it did to the Vancouver Olympics: split up the Closing Ceremony with the new sitcom. Geez, NBC. This might not motivate people to watch the new show by fall.  (see here for a summary review from NPR)

    But still: Spice Girls! Liam Gallagher singing “Wonderwall” with his Not-Oasis band! The Who! Tons of great 1980’s and 1990’s stuff! (and George Michael, and a tribute to Queen and John Lennon). Oh, and Eric Idle, but not the rest of Monty Python.

    Now, we wait for Rio 2016. (or at least Sochi 2014).

  • Happy July 4th!

    BBC America’s doing a Star Trek: The Next Generation marathon. And, TCM‘s airing the annual showing of the musical “1776” (see here for the TCM entry on it).  But, it is nice outside. What to do, what to do…

    (cross-posted to sswslitinmotion.tumblr.com.)

  • A Busy Triscribe Weekend

    Just checking in on what will be a busy triscribe weekend.

    YC had shared this on Facebook; figured I’d pass it along – fascinating interview by Robin Roberts with Michelle Kwan.

    And… coming in July 2012: Steve Byrne plays Steve Sullivan, corporate lawyer who gives it up to take over his dad’s bar, in “Sullivan and Son.”  Please, please, please, be a decent sitcom. And, is it funny that a corporate lawyer gets to give it up? And,  what do we say about sitcoms with APA’s? (please, please, please be better than “All-American Girl” (which really tried so hard)).

    Ironically (or not): Jodi Long plays Byrne’s mom, and she had played Margaret Cho’s mom in “All-American Girl.”  Hmmmm…

    We can wish for a good summer tv, while waiting for more summer movies. We shall see….

  • Happy Memorial Day 2012

    Take a moment to think about those who served and are currently serving.

    Some APA Heritage Month items, as the month winds down:

     

    Recently, coverage on two APA lawyers:

    Yul Kwon, on “Tell Me More” with Michele Martin,about being an APA Game Changer, i.e., that he was the first APA to win “Survivor” – and without totally backstabbing everyone – thereby being a pretty positive APA image on tv and undermining lawyer stereotypes to whatever extent; and once named to People magazine’s list of “Sexiest Men Alive.” (he certainly got to be one of the sexier ones on PBS with the America Revealed series).

    Additionally, Stuart Ishimaru, an out-going EEOC Commissioner, was on “Tell Me More,” to discuss his new appointment to the the Office of Women and Minority Inclusion in the US’ Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to monitor diversity in the banking industry.

     

    FC shared this on Facebook, and I’m forwarding it along on triscribe: coverage on NY1 on APA’s – specifically the aging and growing Chinese population in Brooklyn.

    Additional NY1 items include:

    a story on how APA’s in government from Flushing came about because of a city council member’s insensitivity,

    the development of the Pakistani population in Brooklyn, the expansion of Chinese demographics in Staten Island, and

    Cambodians in the Bronx.

     

    FC and I had also checked out “Revisiting Vincent,” a performance/talkback/reception on the Vincent Chin case, co-produced by our favorite Asian American Bar Association of NY (AABANY), the Asian American Arts Alliance and the Museum of Chinese in America (MoCA). The performance was just great, thought provoking stuff by professional actors, adapting the AABANY project led by Judge Denny Chin and Dean Frank Wu (the two of whom also did a great Q&A at the end).  AABANY posted a photo and the AABANY intro by Executive Director Yang Chen at the event.

    Photos from Asian American photographer/icon  Corky Lee were presented and even available in a silent auction.

    The AABANY blog also shared that Jeff Yang at Wall Street Journal’s blog did a shout-out of the “Revisiting Vincent” event.

    All great stuff.  Keep it  going.

  • Happy APA Heritage Month 2012!

    Of course, around here at triscribe, everyday is APA Heritage. My alma mater already observed APA Month last month, since this time of year is finals.  Go study, kids.  But, the rest of us can have fun.

    And, sure, it’s now officially APA Heritage Month (as President Obama has declared – see here, for this post over at Angry Asian Man blog, sharing the Obama proclamation and fascinating content from various federal resources (the Library of Congress, Smithsonian, National Archives, etc.).

    From our friends and colleagues at the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY): a terrific list of events this month.

    This Saturday, April 14, 2012: the CAPA 33rd Annual Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Festival, over in Brooklyn in DUMBO (Water St. and Anchorage Place), 11am to 5pm.

    Oh, and do check out “America Revealed,” on PBS, wherein Yul Kwon did a great job as a host in covering the various systems in America – our transportation, our energy, our food system, and our manufacturing.  Not that this is an APA thing or a lawyer thing, but Yul Kwon – he’s the man…!