This time last year, director Diane Paragas, bespectacled and comfortable in a Red Hook café, delivered the news: “Yellow Rose,” her feature film debut after 15 years, was acquired by Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions for theater release. The film opened in theaters on October 9th and made the Rotten Tomatoes’ best films list in 2020. […]
Read MoreThe name “Wuhan” will, from this year forward, be known as the ground zero of COVID-19. But the Wǔhàn (武汉) of my youth is much more than what it has become famous for in the hyperconnected world of 2020. Before this year, I would often casually converse about China with other westerners. Everyone knows my […]
Read MoreI should probably get used to people roaming around with cameras, I thought, as I passed another white man on the street photographing our fruit stands like they were exotica. I was accustomed to this sight wandering Chinatown, but not Flushing. My Fǎlāshèng (法拉盛) is now famous for Anthony Bourdain’s praise of our food culture, […]
Read MoreCharlie Uruchima—an Ecuadorean American kid from Hell’s Kitchen—didn’t expect to be accepted into New York University. But he did, and it was through his Latin American studies major at NYU that he became the founder of Kichwa Hatari, the United States’ first radio show in the indigenous language of the Andes. The show is an effort […]
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