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Where are all the Asian Rockstars in North America?

“Where are all the Asian Rockstars in North America? In an era of Trump and his daily challenges to diversity, can an Asian music superstar…

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Posted in Canada Culture Interview

Ann Marie Fleming and Her Window Horses

Versatile Canadian filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming’s animated feature Window Horses opens Sep 29 in Los Angeles at Laemmle’s Music Hall. CHOPSO took the opportunity to…

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Posted in Canada Entertainment

Mina Shum’s Meditation Park Trailer

Here’s the fresh hot trailer for Mina Shum’s (Double Happiness, Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity) latest feature Meditation Park that will be premiering Friday Sep…

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Posted in Canada China Culture Entertainment

Vancouver Asian Film Festival Launches First Canada-China Scriptwriting Competition

CHOPSO interviewed Kevin K. Li, a board member of Vancouver Asian Film Festival and also creator and co-producer of HBICtv: Ultra Rich Asian Girls.  Kevin…

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Posted in Canada Entertainment

Cowboy Bebop On Ice

Canadian figure skater, Kevin Reynolds, not only did he choreograph his routine to Yoko Kanno’s “Tank!” from Cowboy Bebop but he also dressed the part. He cosplayed Spike…

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Posted in Canada Entertainment US

Baz Luhrmann’s The Get Down

Netflix has just dropped the fresh hot sizzle reel of Baz Luhrmann’s new series The Get Down on Youtube. It looks fantastic. Set in the…

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Posted in Canada Culture Hong Kong US

My Life as a FOP (Fresh Off the Plane)

I have to say when I watched ABC’s Fresh Off the Boat and no matter how much I love Randall and the cast… I just…

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Posted in Canada Culture

9 Days ’til Christmas

Every year the Canadian low-cost airline WestJet comes out with a holiday advertising campaign. Here’s this year’s video. But if all you have is only five…

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Posted in Canada Viralicious

Two Japanese Soldiers’ Heads

As I was Googling “Japanese Internment,” I discovered that two mixed media heads of Japanese soldiers from the 1999 movie Snow Falling on Cedars were…

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Posted in Canada China Politics

This Rose Is A Thorn in China’s Side

This morning, a 25-year-old Chinese-Canadian landed at the Hong Kong International Airport planning to connect her flight to China. Upon landing, she tweeted… https://twitter.com/AnastasiaLinTO/status/669830322373066752 Being…

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