A moral audit (of sorts): How AAPI advocacy organizations use resources, money, and power to give back to the communities they claim to serve. Around 2018, when I was an editor at Deadline Hollywood, I had a lunch meeting at what was then known as the H Club in...
A moral audit (of sorts): How AAPI advocacy organizations use resources, money, and power to give back to the communities they claim to serve. During a post-movie dinner with a group of fellow Filipinos, the conversation turned to a film little known beyond the...
I have lots of opinions. Lots of them. It’s embedded in my gay genes. That is why I love critiquing and analyzing film, TV, media, and all that informs culture. Culture is a shared system of customs, arts, and beliefs of an era of time, a physical geographical...
There was a cathartic validation while reading Roshan Sethi’s debut novel, The Simp, a searingly realistic tale about the absurdity of Hollywood in all its white splendor. The Simp follows the aforementioned Raj, an unemployed actor who lands a job as an assistant...
SXSW can be an overwhelming experience. For 10 days, you are bombarded by a tsunami of media, films, TV, tech, music, culture, and queso… lots of queso. This year, the annual SXSW fest takes place between March 12–18, curating a seven-day instead of 10-day...
As journalism and media enter an era of highly scrutinized and policed through an authoritarian lens, Matthew Fellion and Katherine Inglis’s book Censored: A Literary History of Subversion and Control show us how morally panicked gatekeepers have been trying...
I am currently reading “Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album” by Book by Ken Caillat and Steve Stiefel, a recollection of the drama, drugs, make-ups, break-ups, partying, and band in-fighting that made one of the most...
Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran on May 5, 1864, Nellie Bly was known as an adventurous, bold and rebellious writer who supported her family after her father died. After she read an article by the “Quiet Observer” in the Pittsburgh Dispatch that labeled...
The California African American Museum celebrates and honors Martin Luther King Jr. on January 19 with King Day 2026 that includes day of events from 10 AM – 5 PM: Honor Martin Luther King Jr. with a performance by the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los...
