Curating the best of Asian and Asian-American cuisine in Queens, this Monday, September 6th the Asian “Feastival” will serve up both innovative and traditional Asian foods along with tutorials on how to spice up your...
Ongoing flooding has affected up to 20 million people and devastated Pakistan’s infrastructure. Relief has been slow to arrive, complicated by the political situation even as US drone attacks continue in the...
The uproar over a proposed Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan shows no signs of abating and is shaping up to be a divisive issue in the upcoming mid-term elections. Faiza Patel of the Brennan Center and by...
The first Vietnamese artist to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Dinh Q. Le’s work references history and war, particularly the Vietnam War. His show, titled “The Farmer and the...
MI21 reimagines and reworks Mother India, the epic Bollywood film that captures the post-colonial Indian psyche, into a performance piece - 60 minutes of visual images accompanied live by a DJ and musicians. We'll...
The sinking earlier this year of the Cheonan, a South Korean warship, has exacerbated already tense relations between North and South Korea, played a role in the resignation of Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama,...
Last week an estimated 15,000 people convened in Detroit for the US Social Forum, only the second such gathering to take place in this country. With over 1,000 workshops, fifty People's Movement Assemblies and...
Nearly 200,000 farmers have committed suicide in India in the past ten years, but this fact is ignored by much of the mainstream Indian media. A new documentary follows veteran journalist P.Sainath as he puts faces and...
For Pakistani Americans, will May 1, 2010 mark a turning point—for the worse? Are we in a post-Faisal Shahzad era? In the wake of the attempted Times Square bombing, already the government has talked about “severe...
The singer-composer David Byrne’s unusual song cycle based on the life of the former first lady of the Philippines is now out as a two-CD set, with performances by vocalists like Cyndi Lauper, Natalie Merchant,...
