Music, music, music
I’ll be updating this page periodically to include music that’s piquing my interest at the moment. Song of the day: “Pretty Baby” by Blondie.
Author: Jae-Ha Kim
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Go Away With … Babs Olusanmokun
Babs Olusanmokun is having an incredible year. After returning to the โDuneโ franchise as Jamis in โDune: Part Two,โ the actor will next be seen in Guy Ritchie’s โThe Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfareโ, which opens in theaters on April 19. The Nigerian American actor is also a cast member of the โStar Trek: Strange New Worldsโ series, portraying Dr. Joseph MโBenga.
Eat, Drink and Be Merry
True story: When I was in college, we didnโt have access to The Internets like all you young whipper snappers today. So, instead of drooling over all the photos of food on Pinterest and Instagram, I used to look at recipe books and imagine that I could be eating that instead of the dorm food my parents had paid for.
Go Away With … Ashley Versher
“I have filmed most in New York. The good is that New York is really its own character and that can change the shape of a project in such a beautiful way,” said โThis is MeโฆNowโ actress Ashley Versher. “But as for the bad, I mean it’s New York, so wild things can happen at any moment of the day.”
Go Away With … Sahra Nguyen
“My parents escaped Vietnam on a boat after the war ended in 1975 and they came to the United States as refugees,” said coffee entrepreneur Sahra Nguyen. “I was born and raised in Boston โฆ surrounded by lots of immigrant families from the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Puerto Rico. I attended the Boston public school system, which was as diverse as the city of Boston. Having a lot of exposure to diverse cultures at a young age helped shape my love for culture and community.”
Why Are Korean Celebs Still Apologizing?
One of the strangest things about Korean celebrity culture is the number of famous people who are essentially forced to issueย apologiesย for doing normal, everyday things (that their detractors themselves are probably doing).
Go Away With โฆ Mai Whelan of โSquid Game: The Challengeโ
“At eight years of age, it was an easy transition [to the U.S.],” said “Squid Game: The Challenge” winner Mai Whelan. “The hardest was learning English, because there are so many tenses. In Vietnamese, we have general, formal and no tenses.”
Go Away With … Adrian Sutherland
“I didnโt feel comfortable writing in Cree before, but as Iโve become more comfortable with writing songs and making music, now it feels like more of a natural fit,” said โPrecious Diamondsโ musician Adrian Sutherland. “Iโm pleased with how the songs turned out.”
Chung Ha Shares the Next Step in Her Evolution
“I knew that I had to have a comeback eventually, because I had promised my fans that I would,โ says the adventurous K-pop star Chung Ha. โThis is what I love to do”
American melancholy: The real loss in “Past Lives” isn’t love
In the Academy Award-nominated film โPast Lives,โ the Korean concept of inyeon is used to lead viewers into believing that Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae-sung (Teo Yoo) are destined to be together โ if not in this lifetime, then in the future. Or perhaps they were together in a distant past that neither can recall. The introduction of the word leaves moviegoers hoping that these two can have a happily-ever-after ending, despite his living in Seoul, 7,000 miles from her apartment in New York City.