The NBA Draft is Dead, And the Miami Heat Killed It
Washington Afro, News Report, Posted: Jul 21, 2010
Building through the draft is the "ideal way" of doing things in most professional sports. It's cheaper, easier to manage.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Intersections, Sports
Tags: basketball, draft, heat, lebron James, miami
'Inception' Role Dreamed Up For Ken Watanabe
Pacific Citizen, News Report, Posted: Jul 20, 2010
Ken Watanabe’s part in “Inception” was created specifically for the Japanese actor, according to director Christopher Nolan
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Ethnic Media Network, Top Stories
Tags: films, hollywood, inception, leonardo dicaprio, movie
A Road Strewn with Coffee and Tea
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jul 15, 2010
Filmmaker Jean Marie Offenbacher traveled to Syria and documented daily life on the "axis of evil."
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Audio, International Affairs, Middle Eastern, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: coffee, daily life, documentary, middle east, syria, tea
Captive in Your Own Country
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jul 13, 2010
In the play Beijing, California takes place in 2050 and China has literally invaded the US and San Francisco is segregated into militarized zones.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Audio, Immigration, Law & Justice, New America Now, Original NAM Content
Tags: asian, asian americans, california, china, future, invasion, military, san francisco
Is the Metro PCS Television Commercial Racist?
India Currents, Video, Posted: Jul 12, 2010
Two views on whether the recent Metro PCS commercial starring two Indian characters, Ranjit and Chad, is harmless fun or racial stereotyping.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Ethnic Media Network, South Asian, Top Stories
LeBron Bolting Kills Cleveland Emotionally and Financially
Washington Afro, News Report, Posted: Jul 12, 2010
For several seasons, LeBron James has been Cleveland’s cash cow, paving the way for sold out home games and merchandise sales.
Categories: African American, Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Intersections, Sports, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: agents, basketball, cleveland, free, leBron james, merchandise
Ex-Con Rick Ross Fights Rapper Rick Ross in Court
Los Angeles Sentinel , News Report, Posted: Jul 12, 2010
The original "Freeway" Ricky Ross gained national notary in the 1980's as being a South Los Angeles drug king pin.
Categories: African American, Arts & Entertainment, Intersections, Law & Justice, Media, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Richard Rodriguez on American Amnesia
New America Media, Video, Posted: Jul 10, 2010
Before BP there was Bhopal. But coverage of the Gulf oil spill rarely references industrial disasters like the Union Carbide gas leak in 1984
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, International Affairs, Intersections, Latin America, Multi-ethnic, Religion, Top Stories, Video
Tags: america, amnesia, bp. bhopal, oil
Dump Your iPod: Viva La Vinyl
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Audio, Posted: Jul 09, 2010
This week on YO!Radio -- we trek out to the city of Berkeley where many old school music lovers are diving through crates of free vinyl in hopes of scoring musical gold.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Audio, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: berkeley, music, old school, vinyl
New America Now: US Invaded by China? Is 98118 the Most Diverse Zip Code?
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jul 09, 2010
A discussion on the effect of the Federal Government suing Arizona for AB1070 and Richard Rodriguez talks to Sandip about America's past disasters.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Audio, Immigration, Latino, Middle Eastern, New America Now, Original NAM Content, South Asian, Top Stories
Tags: Arizona, Axis of Evil, China, Duy Nguyen, Jean Marie Offenbacher, Richard Rodriguez, Syria
The Last Airbender is A Big Stinker
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Commentary, Posted: Jul 09, 2010
A young fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender, the cartoon series, is sorely disappointed with the movie version.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: acting, airbender, asians, discrimination, hollywood, movies, race relations, shyamalan
Forget Eclipse: Bring Back the Blood Thirsty Vampire
New America Media, Op-ed, Posted: Jul 08, 2010
Once we identified with the dark side of vampires. Now teens connect to the lover’s heart of the blood-suckers.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Gender & Sexuality, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Is Soccer Frenzy Affecting Your Productivity?
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jul 07, 2010
with almost 80 percent of the world’s population watching every match, is soccer fever good or bad for global productivity?
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Sports, Top Stories, Youth Culture
The Rise of South Asian-American Poets
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jul 07, 2010
Neela Banerjee and Pireeni Sundaralingam discuss Indivisible, a compilation of South Asian-American poetry.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Audio, New America Now, Original NAM Content, South Asian, Top Stories
Tags: book, Poetry, South Asian
The American Dream Meets Home Alone
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jul 06, 2010
Tze Chun discusses his film, Children of Invention, about a single Chinese-American mother who lures other immigrants into a pyramid scheme.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Audio, Immigration, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: American dream, Chinese-Americans, film, film. young directors, Filmmaker Magazine, immigrants, movie, pyramid schemes
Transforming the Asian-American Experience Through Film
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jul 05, 2010
Jennifer Phang, director Half-Life, takes the familiar story of an Asian-American family living in California and twists it into something new.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Audio, Multi-ethnic, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: asian american immigration, asian americans, asians, Film, film. young directors, immigrants, young directors
Music in Tehran's Underground
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jul 04, 2010
Singer and songwriter Arash Sobhani talks about his band Kiosk, which was founded in a basement in Tehran.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Audio, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: banned, basement, Canada, Iran, music, underground bands, US
New America Now: Asian-American Films and Poetry
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jul 02, 2010
Two directors–Jennifer Phang and Tze Chun–talk about their films and the first anthology of South Asian-American poetry is published.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Audio, Middle Eastern, New America Now, Original NAM Content, South Asian, Top Stories
Tags: America, Iran, movies, Northern California, poetry, pyramid schemes, South Asian, Tehran, underground bands, writing
La Plebe Rocks It for the People
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Commentary, Posted: Jul 01, 2010
The term (and name) ‘La Plebe’ roughly translates into ‘the people,’ and the music that the band makes justifies the name.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Immigration, Indigenous, Intersections, Latino, Media, Multimedia, Original NAM Content, Video
Tags: bottom of the hill, la plebe, latino, music, rock, san francisco, spanish