Hoa Xuande and Robert Downey Jr. in "The Sympathizer," with a restaurant and diners in the background.

Max’s Vietnam War Series ‘The Sympathizer’ is an Energetic Delight

I’m seeing double: four Robert Downey Jrs!

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Put the ‘pot’ in pot stickers for this year’s 4/20

Writer Anjana Pawa reveals eight AA+PI cannabis brands that are changing the industry with innovative, aesthetic products for your recreation

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Get Some Laughter Out of Your System With These TikToks

Here’s your weekly dose of joy!

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The APIs of the 2024 ‘Time’ 100

Check out all the amazing actors, leaders, innovators, and all-around-badasses that made it onto this year’s list

Lionel Richie has a hand placed amicably on Bao Nguyen's shoulder.

‘The Greatest Night in Pop’ is filmed like a heist

Vietnamese American director Bao Nguyen on his latest documentary: a making of the Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie hit song “We Are the World”

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F*ck Around and Find Out with Anna Lee: The powerhouse of the big O

Our resident sexpert gives an anatomy lesson for better orgasms and answers other reader questions

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Love, Bonito is made with love for the everyday Asian woman

How Rachel Lim built her line of womenswear from blog shop to empowerment brand

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Time-travel romance ‘The Greatest Hits’ gets it very nearly right

…except the ending

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Enjoy These TikToks Before TLC New Year!

How are you celebrating?

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What does it mean to be an Asian American author?

With new books coming out this month, writers Jessie Ren Marshall and Christine Ma-Kellams have a frank talk about representation and identity politics in storytelling

A woman is DJing while wearing a focused expression. She is wearing headphones and manipulating discs and knobs in a room illuminated by purple lights.

Hiroko Yamamura brings ’80s Japanese cyberpunk into the DJ scene

The DJ from Chicago tackles the music scene with a unassailable sense of humor and a peerless love of anime

Activist and photojournalist Corky Lee holds a camera, ready to take a photo, against an orange backdrop with black and white photos framed in white.

442: Corky Lee was the undisputed, unofficial photographer laureate for Asian America

The late activist and photojournalist used his work to chronicle the AA+PI community and record our history over the course of 50 years

A man stands in front of two large paintings in a gallery. He has his hand over his mouth, looking up with his head tilted to the right.

Brett Park uses phantasmic phalluses to explore bodily taboos

In the prolific YouTuber’s art, two-dimensional cartoon bodies hide a secret third dimension of meaning

The cover of "Cowboy Cover," with singer Beyoncé, dressed in country western clothing, sits on a white horse while holding an an American flag.

JoySauce reviews ‘Cowboy Carter’

As an Asian American from the South, writer Teresa Tran has big feelings about Beyoncé’s new country album

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Film Forum’s Japanese Horror Fest celebrates nightmare fuel

Japan’s best films in their history of horror are finding new audiences years later

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David Chang was always Goliath

The king of the Momofuku empire is targeting small Asian-owned business over spicy chili trademarks

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Vietnam’s Record-Smashing Rom-Com ‘Mai’ is a Perplexing Watch

Trấn Thành’s newest film is the highest grossing Vietnamese movie of all time—maybe because it offers quite literally something for everyone

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Turning to anime as a form of self-care

A fantasy subgenre called isekai is rising in American popularity for its portrayal of gentle healing amid a tidal wave of burnout

An Asian man stands with a microphone in his hand with balloons in the background.

‘Without other people understanding, not a lot is going to change’

Serica Initiative executive director Daniel Tam-Claiborne weighs in on how he uses storytelling to affect change

B-girl Sunny Choi, in a green shirt and black pants, holds a breaking pose on one hand against a brick and cement background.

Road to Paris: B-girl Sunny Choi is breaking through

The Korean American on how breaking helped her overcome and work through many issues, including accepting her Asian identity

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Dolly Ave Refuses to Be Pigeonholed

This LA-based singer-songwriter won’t let arbitrary labels diminish her undeniable talent

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Why should I date you when I’m already awesome?

More Asian people are embracing the single life

Author Kyla Zhao stands at a table with a stack of the book "Valley Verified" in front of her and a bookshelf filled with books in the background.

Kyla Zhao’s ‘Valley Verified’ tackles Silicon Valley and big life changes

The author’s latest protagonists trades high fashion for high tech, just as Zhao did

Standup comedian Akaash Singh, dressed in black, holds a microphone up to his face.

Comedian Akaash Singh says we’ve all been ‘Gaslit’

Writer Ali Latifi talks to the comic about his latest special, controversial jokes, and being a voice for “the middle”

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‘Godzilla x Kong’ is throwback kaiju fun

Hollywood’s latest “MonsterVerse” film is loopy and enjoyable, as long as you can brave its human characters

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Astrology with Alice: When planets align

Jupiter and Uranus will line up on April 20 to form an energetic superplanet, but what does that mean for us?