In this New York Times video, Craig Robinson, basketball coach at Brown University - and Barack Obama's brother-in-law - talks about Mr. Obama's game and its impact on his political career.
Bates141, a Jakarta ad agency, created this real life Photoshop interface for an ad campaign for a website called Sofware Asli. Check out the flickr series.
According to Asian Week, two Asian Americans were appointed to top leadership positions in President-elect Barack Obama’s 16-member presidential transition team and another Asian American will serve in the 12-member advisory board to the transition team.
Pete Rouse, whose mother is a Japanese American, will be one of the 3 co-chairs of the transition team. Chris Lu, a Chinese American, will be the team’s executive director. Sonal Shah, an Indian American, is a member of the advisory board.
LOS ANGELES, Oct 25 (Bernama) -- A film festival featuring selected Chinese movies made in recent years as well as classic Hollywood movies is scheduled to be held next month in Los Angeles and two other California cities, Xinhua news agency reported, quoting organisers as saying Friday.
With a gala opening ceremony at the Directors Guild of America Theater in Hollywood on Nov. 3, the 2008 Chinese American Film Festival (CAFF) will last for nearly an entire month to show a total of 43 movies in Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego, mainly targeting local Chinese-American audience.
To mark the second anniversary of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastation of the Louisiana coast, here's a music video I put together celebrating the resiliency of the Houma people as they go about rebuilding their nation, with hardly any assistance from the federal government.
A good friend and mentor passed away this past week. Sheldon Seevak died of a heart attack on Aug. 18. He was 78. He was my friend Alison's dad. We met while Alison and I were attending Duke more than 25 years ago. Over the years, whenever Alison had a family gathering, like a graduation or birthday - and we happened to be living in the same city, which was more often than not - Shelley and I would catch up.
Kim Baca stepped down as interim director of the Native American Journalists Association last month. I wanted to give props to the hard-working Kim for moving to Vermillon, SD and running NAJA. It was a tough job with many challenges. I enjoyed working with her during the last two years, which included a redesign of the NAJA website. Best of luck in your new endeavors!
When I'm not in the gym coaching my daughter's basketball teams, I work as a writer, editor and multimedia journalist. I'm also principal of 
