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· Waylae Gregoire
You’d literally have to be a hermit crab to not know we’re living in a golden age of comic superhero stories. Comics have become a platform for addressing social and racial issues more than ever before as we excitedly wait for Marvel or DC to drop the next superhero blockbuster…
· Max Chang
Marvel has stirred the anger of the Asian-American community by missing an opportunity to right a cultural misappropriation long rooted in comic book history. This week it was announced that Caucasian actor Finn Jones, who plays Loras Tyrell in the HBO series “Game of Thrones”,…
· Editorial Staff
About 224 miles northwest of Tokyo is Toyama Prefecture, home to what many have called the world’s most beautiful Starbucks. A photo posted by MARI INOUE (@ma___ri) on Aug 20, 2016 at 5:19am PDT
· Ryan General
Waking up to a new place each time is nothing short of magical. For someone like Zlwin Chew however, “magical” is an ordinary part of the job. As the resident headlining magic act on board Royal Caribbean’s Mariner of the Seas cruise ship, it is but the perk of his job that…
· Ryan General
A private island with a beautiful traditional Japanese house in Japan is now open for booking via Airbnb. The entire uninhabited island called “Tajima,” which features not only a serene environment but also a variety of special activity areas, is being offered by owner Tetsuhiro…
· Ryan General
A new building resembling a giant toilet bowl was recently completed in China. The worst part? It’s supposed to be a university science building. The toilet shape of the building is so undeniable that even the government-run People’s Daily reported that the building looks like a…
· Ryan General
Glass Office, a recently completed building in Hong Kong, is set to house the most transparent offices in the world — literally. The all-glass structure measures more than 193,000 square feet and is situated at 133 Wai Yip Street in the Kwun Tong waterfront, Hong Kong’s new…
· Editorial Staff
Last Friday night on a segment of MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews”, political commentator Ann Coulter referred to a crowd of Asian-Americans as “Mandarins,” insisting that the term was correct to describe both people and the Chinese written language. Coulter was commenting…
· Benny Luo
Charles Michael Yim is a successful entrepreneur who has started three companies to date and sold two of them by the time he turned 28. His most recent startup, Breathometer, became the very first company on the hit TV show “Shark Tank” to get an investment from every single…
· Sarah Lesnar
We may sometimes marvel at other people’s amazing photographs on Instagram and Facebook, but one video reveals just how ridiculous it must have looked to get those photos.
· Riley Schatzle
This urban treehouse is for real! Rooted in the middle of one of the world’s most remarkable cities is a brilliant Berlin masterpiece on a 7,000 square foot lot. Conceptualized with the essence of a child’s imagination by Baumraum Architects, this treehouse fantasy is far from…
· Editorial Staff
Dan Fleyshman was already hustling to make money at just 4 years old. Back then, his parents owned three Levi’s stores and would sell the jeans at a swap meet in Long Beach during the weekends. Fleyshman would set up a stand right next to his parents’ to sell and trade baseball…
· Augustine Reyes Chan
Disney and Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Age of Ultron” smashed the box office this weekend, pulling in $191.3 million in the U.S. and giving it the second-best domestic opening weekend ever. It’s no surprise, then, that a T-shirt with an image of Bruce Lee that Robert Downey Jr.…
· Laura Dang
Four years ago, 31-year old Noelle Hancock did what many of us wished we had the guts to do. She uprooted her comfortable Manhattan, New York life, turned down a $95,000-a-year job, and moved to the Caribbean to scoop ice cream at a local ice cream parlor. With several job…
· Dottie Schrock
When it comes to being buried in business, you’d gladly accept any help when it comes to getting things done fast and getting them done well. Luckily, technology can cut our jobs in half if we know where to look and how to work. Here are five applications you can use to maximize…
Netmarble is Korea's mobile-game powerhouse that turns pop-culture IP into games — from BTS titles to Marvel — and is one of HYBE's largest shareholders, linking K-pop and gamin...
Netmarble is Korea's mobile-game powerhouse that turns pop-culture IP into games — from BTS titles to Marvel — and is one of HYBE's largest shareholders, linking K-pop and gaming balance sheets.