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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.

Lunar New Year 2012 Events

Happy Year of the Dragon…  May it be auspicious for all of us!

In the NY Daily News:

an article on the question of why NYC Chinatown still doesn’t have its own arch.   I posit that inertia, money, and lack of actual analysis (of where to put it and how to drive the tourists to it) are factors. Disclaimer: it’s not like I actually know why this hasn’t happened already, but I kind of wonder if having an arch is like admitting your Chinatown is a tourist thing and no longer a living community. That’s just based on my familiarity of the Montreal Chinatown arches and seeing the one in San Francisco.

a slideshow of where to eat (a couple of 8th Avenue Brooklyn places – like Pacificana – are included in the photos).

Daily News also profiles a couple of Chinese/Taiwanese foodie bloggers and their recipes for the Lunar New Year.

Check these items out in the city:

In case you’re looking for Lunar New Year events/highlights from Brooklyn, here are some items from the Brooklyn Public Library.

In case you’re looking for Lunar New Year events/highlights from Queens, here are some items from the Queens Library.

Over at World Financial Center, New York Chinese Cultural Center is bringing some arts and crafts for the kids and performances next weekend.

And, of course, last but never least, a whole bunch of stuff in Chinatown in Manhattan.

In case you want a whole list, check out Time Out NY. Time Out NY is good that way, even talking to the cast of “Chinglish” about Chinese food for the  Chinese New Year (“Chinglish” is ending Jan. 29, 2012 – check it out while you can).

 

We Survived Hurricane Irene

… and Probably Should Get the t-shirt to express the survival.

Thankfully not so bad; we fared okay.

New Yorkers insist on grumbling, of course.

Look, I’m not going to second-guess the order to evacuate the coastal areas of the city or whether MTA didn’t need to shut down service. Hurricane Irene could have been a disaster and we got lucky. And, I’m glad to not have to hear about people trapped in Battery Park City or Coney Island or the Rockaways, or stuck in flooded subways or blown away on the elevated lines. Better to be safe than sorry – I’ll agree with the mayor on that.

Check MTA for subway service updates for Monday. Looks like service is expected to be up by 6am.

Pretty amazed – fascinating footage from AP, via NPR’s news blog. So the island of Manhattan was pretty unscathed; downtown was gushing with water during the height of Irene, but Times Square still glittered w/ lights, even if a people-less. Ah well.