Monthly Archives: June, 2010
A “hot” romance from… VinaWood!
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April saw the Việt Nam premier of Để Mai Tính, a romantic comedy directed by Charlie Nguyễn, produced by and starring Dustin Nguyễn (of...
In the News: SEA Cinemas, Agent Orange and Fishing in Oil
Scholars and film buffs will be descending on Saigon in a few days for the 6th Annual Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference, July 1-4. It...
Outspoken: Poets of the Diaspora II, featuring Dao Strom
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On April 24th, the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network presented “Outspoken: Vietnamese Poets of the Diaspora II” at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Six writers...
Singer Cathy Nguyen featured in New York Times
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Do you enjoy reading diaCRITICS? Then please consider subscribing! My colleague at USC, Josh Kun, has an article in the New York Times today talking about...
le thi diem thuy: the writer we are all looking for
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I stumbled upon “The Gangster We Are All Looking For,” through a class reading. The novel, although published over five years ago, still stands...
500 Voices & Asian Voice Radio
Last summer, I was again in Austin, Texas, attempting to make things happen with my music career. I had done a short tour in...
The Scent of Green Papaya
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As I sat through Tran Anh Hung’s 1993 film “The Scent of Green Papaya.” I was brought into a world full of beauty but...
Outspoken: Poets of the Diaspora II, featuring Lan Tran
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On April 24th, the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network presented “Outspoken: Vietnamese Poets of the Diaspora II” at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Six writers...
Vietnamese Epic & The Budget Traveler
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Kim Van Kieu is one of those stories that is so famous that The Lonely Planet Guidebook will advise enterprising tourists to read it if...
Outspoken: Poets of the Diaspora II, featuring Trinh T. Minh-ha
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On April 24th, the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network presented “Outspoken: Vietnamese Poets of the Diaspora II” at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Six writers...
