Filmed in Spokane, Wash., Wayne Wang’s new film “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers” marks the director’s return both to independent filmmaking and to telling stories about the Chinese experience in America.
Archive | Vol 27 No 39 | 9/20 – 9/26
Communication goes beyond language in Wang film
Posted on 20 September 2008.
Posted in At the Movies, Reviews, Vol 27 No 39 | 9/20 - 9/261 Comment
Novel deals with suicide, abuse, and the legacy of being Japanese American
Posted on 20 September 2008.
Working within the emotionally associative forms of poetry and memoir, award-winning poet David Mura has already created a body of work that tackles head-on complex issues such as sexual desire and addiction, race relations and the unspoken consequences of U.S. WWII internment camps on later generations of Japanese Americans.
Posted in On the Shelf, Reviews, Vol 27 No 39 | 9/20 - 9/260 Comments
Vote!
Posted on 20 September 2008.
The prevalent angle that much of the media has been spinning in the presidential election is their stress on the fact that, next year, we will either have a Black president or a female vice president. Either way – isn’t it fantastic how far we’ve come?
Posted in Editorials, Vol 27 No 39 | 9/20 - 9/260 Comments
Letter: In response to ID vandalism
Posted on 20 September 2008.
When I saw the degree of damage in Chinatown from vandalism today, I almost ventured out despite a heart condition, past my curfew, to mingle with what rowdies might be attracted here during days of serious moonlight.
Posted in Letters to the Editor, Opinion, Vol 27 No 39 | 9/20 - 9/260 Comments
