Joel Kim Booster Is Adopting a New Asian American Identity

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefOscar-winning “Minari” and Awkwafina-starring “The Farewell” head a slew of additional titles at streaming service Rakuten Viki that aim to capture the Asian American experience.Over the coming weeks it will add 14 feature films available via transactional VOD while two popular documentaries, “American Revolution: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs” and “The Grace Lee Project,” are free to all viewers.Other titles include: “The Revenge of the Green Dragons,”

Antonio Ferme editorNBC has announced that submissions for the new music event series “American Song Contest” are now open.Based on “Eurovision Song Contest,” the world’s largest music event, the series will feature a series of live music performances from American contestants who are in competition to win the country’s vote for best original song. All 50 states, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the U.S.

video above.“Look, I know this story has barely skimmed the surface of this subject,” Oliver concluded Sunday’s show. “But I hope that it’s at least introduced some of you to a bit of the history involved here.”“Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” is produced for HBO by Avalon and Sixteen String Jack Productions; executive produced by John Oliver, Tim Carvell, Liz Stanton, Jon Thoday and James Taylor; directed by Paul Pennolino and Christopher Werner.

 First Lady Dr. Jill Biden  is ringing in her birthday at her beach house!  President Joe Biden ’s wife turned 70 on Thursday, June 3.

Forest Hills StadiumThe former site of the US Open tennis tournament will be hosting many players of a different kind — the musical one — this summer. Among the artists scheduled to take the stage in the pastoral setting nestled in the midst of Queens are Halsey (July 16 and 17), Bright Eyes (July 31) and Wilco (Aug.

Sinéad O’Connor has provided an update on her upcoming eleventh studio album.

New Order and Pet Shop Boys have rescheduled their joint North American tour for the third time due to the coronavirus pandemic – this time with dates set for autumn 2022.The revised tour dates now include guest DJ Paul Oakenfold and take in an additional date at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center in New York.

Creeper have announced details of a new EP, described as an epilogue to the story presented on their 2020 album ‘Sex, Death & The Infinite Void’.‘American Noir’ is set to come out on July 30 via Roadrunner, and is being previewed by its first single ‘Midnight’.According to a press release, the new EP is a requiem to Roe, a central character in the band’s recent second album.Frontman Will Gould explained: “This new EP is comprised of material we’d written over the course of the last album.

Chad Michael Murray is the latest actor to take on a killer role.

Police in New Hampshire in the US have confirmed that they have an outstanding “active arrest warrant” for Marilyn Manson on charges of assault.According to the Gilford Police Department, Manson faces two charges of “simple assault” that are “not sexual in nature”.

EXCLUSIVE: Snapchat’s parent company Snap has commissioned UK producer Barcroft Studios and BIPOC-owned CALICO to make As I Am, an original series spotlighting the stories of Asian Americans.

“The Donut King” (2020)From filmmaker Alice Gu, “The Donut King” traces the twisty, unexpected journey of Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy, who arrived in California in the 1970s and, through a mixture of diligence and luck, built a multi-milion dollar donut empire up and down the west coast.After escaping the brutal Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, Ngoy started a new life in America as a church custodian and eventually parlayed hard luck and opportunity into the opening of his first donut shop in Orange

The American Federation of Musicians has filed an unfair labor practices charge against HBO, claiming that musicians on The Gilded Age, its 10-part miniseries filming in New York, were fired after they asked to be represented by the union. The charge was filed with the National Labor Relations Board.

NEW YORK -- An incoming first-year student at Stanford University has been named the new National Youth Poet Laureate. Alexandra Huynh, 18, is a second-generation Vietnamese American from Sacramento, California, who sees poetry both as a means to self-expression and social justice.She was selected from among four regional finalists for a position first held by Amanda Gorman, who read at President Joe Biden's inauguration.