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Category: Outside of Pasadena

January 22, 2020 Jana J. Monji

‘Volta’ May Jumpstart your New Year’s Resolutions ☆☆☆☆

January 20, 2020January 22, 2020 Jana J. Monji

Tim Robbins’ ‘New Colossus’: Heartfelt Collective Storytelling

September 20, 2017 Jana J. Monji

‘Big Night’ Is Big Fun ✮✮✮

November 12, 2016 Jana J. Monji

‘Toruk: The First Flight’ Doesn’t Exactly Soar

July 7, 2016 Jana J. Monji

Different star-crossed lovers for Tanabata: Romeo & Juliet

September 12, 2015 Jana J. Monji

‘The Object Lesson’ is a look at the objects in our lives

February 20, 2015 Jana J. Monji

‘Cineastas’ is theater for filmmakers and multi-taskers

January 14, 2015 Jana J. Monji

‘Half-Life’ at REDCAT creatively examines Fukushima nuclear disaster

September 5, 2014 Jana J. Monji

Dinosaurs invade Anaheim

September 5, 2014 Jana J. Monji

Don’t walk, run to see “Walking with Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular

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  • National Garden of American Heroes: No Room for Native Americans, Latinos or Asian Americans? July 5, 2020
    You have to wonder what exactly was the criteria for Trump’s National Garden of American Heroes. The list has some questionable choices and notable omissions: There are no Native Americans, no Latinos, no Asian Americans, no scientists and no artists. Don’t worry: This isn’t lacking in “diversity” if you believe in a binary system. I’m […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • The Heat, Hollywood and 44 NoHo Minutes July 2, 2020
    For 44 minutes on February 28, 1997, the LAPD were heroes. In the aftermath, gun control was an issue that fluttered in a twilight zone of survival, and the militarization of the LAPD and other police forces began. Before we consider defunding the police in Los Angeles, it’s worth remembering how a cool February morning was […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • Don’t Blackout History: Lynching Beyond the Binary of Black and White June 26, 2020
    As an Asian American, I’m used to the whitewashing of history, but there”s also another thing few people talk about: Sometimes, history is re-written with large sections blacked out. What’s left might be true, but it isn’t the whole story. That’s the case when two black men were found hanged in Southern California this month. […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • ‘Da 5 Bloods’: What to Do About the Lahu? June 26, 2020
    Spike Lee’s new film on Netflix is timely in how it crystalizes who white and black audience members are supposed to cheer for and who is lost in this binary examination of race. Here black and white audiences are unified on this point: Asian lives don’t matter. The plot is simple. During the Vietnam War, […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • Ms. Geek Speaks: Asian America and Black America June 24, 2020
    During the 1992 LA Riots, I made two compromises. I didn’t report racist comments of a black journalist about Asian Americans and I didn’t pursue translations of South Korean headlines because my contact at a Los Angeles-based Korean news agency told me it would  only make things worse. While events related to George Floyd overshadowed […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • ‘Da 5 Bloods,’ African Americans and Expendable Asians ☆☆ June 13, 2020
    Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods” takes five African American men to Vietnam–four are remembering the past and all five are hoping for a better future because there’s gold in them there hills. This treasure hunt is also a history lesson, with the action in the present stopped to remind us of the past or even […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • Ms. Geek Speaks: Did Black Lives Matter Get Played? June 4, 2020
    A week ago on (27 May 2020) Wednesday, protestors made it clear that the Los Angeles demonstrations about police brutality in another city in a different state weren’t going to be peaceful. That should have been a warning to the organizers of the protests and to anyone who joined them. To be clear, I believe […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • ‘First Vote’: Chinese Americans and Trump May 15, 2020
    Yi Chen could not have imagined how more intensely interesting his one-hour documentary, “First Vote,” would become. The film follows two men and two women, all Chinese American, and both for and against Trump and covers 2016 to 2018. You might find some of this infuriating, but we do have to learn how to have […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • PBS ‘Asian Americans’ Episode 5: ‘Breaking Through’ May 14, 2020
    The last episode of the PBS “Asian Americans” is about “Breaking Through” and where we are today although so much can be added now with the swell of COVID-19 related events. At the beginning stand-up comedian Hari Kandabalou reminds viewers that it is predicted that white people will be the minority in a couple of […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • PBS ‘Asian Americans’ Episode 2: ‘A Question of Loyalty’ May 14, 2020
    The second episode of “Asian Americans” is “A Question of Loyalty” and while this episode centers on one exceptional Japanese American family, it also looks at how other Asian American families dealt with World War II as well. The title refers to the loyalty questionnaire that divided up the Japanese American community, but also the […]
    Jana J. Monji
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