What is the true origin of General Tso’s chicken? Was there a General Tso? Did he create the chicken dish that is ubiquitous on many Chinese restaurant take-out menus across U.S. and the western world? Director Ian Cheney searches for the answers to these questions and more in the documentary The Search For General Tso. A synopsis of the documentary: THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO is a feature-length documentary tracing the origins of Chinese American food through what is arguably America’s …
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Have you ever wonder why there are so many nail salons owned and operated by Vietnamese women? Director Adele Pham had the same questions and decided to explore this question in a documentary she’s working on called NailedIt: Vietnamese & The Nail Industry. Adele Pham explores the social, economic, environmental factors of Vietnamese in the nail industry. Along the way she discovers some interesting stories like how actress Tippi Hedren’s (stared in Hitchcock’s The Birds) meeting with 20 Vietnamese refugee women triggered an early …
Jimi: All Is By My Side (Official Trailer) See Outkast’s André 3000 as Jimi Hendrix in the new biopic Jimi: All Is by My Side. [Washington Post] 1st Look: Is That Don Cheadle or Miles Davis? – Don Cheadle embodies Miles Davis as fliming starts on the Miles Ahead biopic. [The Root] Studio Science: Bob Power on studio mixing. [RBMA] 2,500-year-old erotic graffiti found in unlikely setting on Aegean island – Racy inscriptions and phalluses carved into Astypalaia’s rocky peninsula shed light on very …
Iamsu! Sincerly Yours stream IAMSU! feat. 2 Chainz & Sage The Gemini “Only That Real” Iamsu! “Hipster Girls” Iamsu Sincerely Yours related interviews – Iamsu of the HBK gang coming out of the Bay Area (Richmond) recently dropped his debut studio album Sincerely Yours. Iamsu (and his HBK gang) have been steadily building a buzz over the past few years, with many successful mixtapes. This album is his declaration of arriving on a bigger stage, reppin’ the Bay Area, and thanking his fan base who …
In the midst of a blackout or “Rose-budding” of the DVDASA podcast, I did some looking around online and stumbled on this 2007 movie: We Are The Strange which happens to feature artist and DVDASA host David Choe doing the voice of the character Rain. We Are The Strange is an independent animated film directed by Mr. M Dot Strange. The movie combines a mixture of animation, computer generated graphics, and stop motion techniques to construct an eccentric world for the story of We Are …
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