Formerly the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF), now known as the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) Film Festival is kicking off on Thursday March 13th and runs through March 23rd. CAAM Fest 2014 will be showcasing films made by Asian/Asian American filmmakers, and films relating to the Asian and Asian American experience, with screenings in theaters located in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Oakland. I was looking through the film program of CAAM Fest this year and a …
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Today, February 1st marks the 20th anniversary of Green Day’s third album Dookie, an important album of 90’s rock. Nirvana’s Bleach and Nevermind ushered in the end of hair metal and the rise of grunge. Dookie is the accessible 90s punk youth battle cry. With the release of Dookie on a major label, hardcore punks cried sellout at Green Day. They broke an unwritten code of underground music culture, making them outsiders to the outsiders. Maybe Green Day was trying to move away from preaching to …
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