Rapper Hopie dropped the music video for her track “Breathe” off her “Sugar Water” album. When you face pressure and struggles from all around, sometimes you just need to breathe. Don’t let the critics and hater take you down. Take a breath. Keep your spirits high. Success is right around the corner. Hopie spitting hard. You can get the single on
Music artists Tommy C x Maribelle Anes team up for the music video to the single “Full Circle”. This song speaks about the goals that we set, follow through and making them come to reality. It’s inspires you to live your dreams and reach for the stars. Keep working hard and don’t expect anything out of it. You can download the track FREE here or here.
Indian Americans have taken the top title in the past 6 straight spelling bees. Arvind Mahankali became the latest in a long line of Indian-American athletes to win the National Spelling Bee. As usual, a handful of jerks on Twitter tried to rain on the parade, but Arvind and Hari are both unfazed. Hari Kondabolu gives his take on the past winners and the current one too.
Johnny Hi-Fi released their music video for the single “Lover, Say It’s Not Over” off their “City of Angels” EP. The heartbreaking track is filled with an emotional cry to stay with the one you love. Are you willing to give up anything and give everything for the one you love? You can download the track FREE here.
Get ready for a new way to watch theater…online. The play “Yellow Face” follows the misadventures of an Asian American playwright named DHH who leads the protest against the yellow face casting (the practice of casting Caucasian actors in Asian roles) in the Broadway production of “Miss Saigon”, only to mistakenly cast a Caucasian actor in an Asian role in his own play.
“Yellow Face” is based on David Henry Hwang’s play of the same name for which he received his third Obie Award in Playwriting and made him a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Hwang is an acclaimed playwright whose works include “FOB”, “Golden Child”, “Aida”, “Chinglish” and “M. Butterfly” for which he won the Tony Award.
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“Yellow Face” is directed by Jeff Liu, a theater veteran and Literary Manager at East West Players (the nation’s oldest and most respected Asian American theater), and features a cast with experience in film, TV, theater and YouTube including Ryun Yu (the first Korean American to graduate from London’s prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts), Christopher Gorham (“Covert Affairs”), Linda Park (“Star Trek: Enterprise”), San Shimono (original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Pacific Overtures”), Emily Kuroda (“Gilmore Girls”), Ki Hong Lee (“The Nine Lives of Chloe King”) and popular YouTube personality Justin James Hughes.
The web series 88 Jade Way continues with episode 3. Mr. Fu investigates the disappearance of Red’s teen-idol posters, which involves several tenants. But things go from bad to worse as he finds a homeless man scoping out the basement. Later it’s revealed that this is all part of Mr. Moolah’s plan to steal the apartment building away from Mr. Fu and turn it into luxury condominiums.
