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Last night, I drove up to the City with Susan and Rae to the Hyphen Magazine Release Party at Club Bas in North Beach. Hyphen Magazine: Asian America Unabridged, is a “news and culture magazine that illuminates Asian America through hard-hitting investigative features on the cultural and political trends shaping…

I’m glad that John is up in the Bay Area for work several days out of the week, as it gives us the opportunity to hang out and wax philosophic about life over dinner. Tonight we ventured to Aquis, a Mexican restaurant in the Willow Glen area of San Jose.…

The team for the Voices In Your Hand project got together today for a BBQ at Stanford University. Paul Rankin, the head of the project, is a Fellow in the Reuters Digital Vision Fellowship Program. He’s assembled quite the team from the Stanford community and beyond, and it was nice…

On Saturday night, Rae’s dance company, Facing East Dance & Music performed at the Oakland Metro near Jack London Square. Accompanying Facing East was Jason Britton Dance Company, Courage Group, and musicians Jeff Chan and Vijay Anderson. It’s been some time since I’ve seen Facing East perform. They have been…

Last night, we had dinner at Lily’s house in Los Gatos. In between the main course and dessert, we went out of the house to see the lunar eclipse. The Earth’s shadow casted a reddish glow over the moon as it rose over the hills of Los Gatos. It was…

Rae, Susan and I went to see eclipse: celebrations and funeral, a new performance piece by Harupin-Ha Butoh Dance Theatre. Koichi Tamano, the choreographer and artistic director for the dance company was introduced to Butoh 38 years ago by its founder, Tatsumi Hijikata. Eclipse was held at the SomArts Cultural…

I’m writing this on a plane that is 229 miles away from the San Jose International Airport. Following the Vienna Teng tour, I made a stop at my hometown of San Diego. I spend the past few days with the family, resting and recuperating from the two and a half…