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Jeff Chiba Stearns on Mixedness, Evolution, and Passing the Torch

April 9, 2024
By Kirie Ventura
Exploring mixed identity through storytelling, Jeff Chiba Stearns made several documentaries and illustrated children’s books that featured mixed mythical creatures. He also dismantled that infamous question: “What Are You?”

Better Than the Movies Isn’t Enough: A Review of Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender

April 2, 2024

By Hayley Palmer

Netflix’s highly anticipated adaptation of the animated classic is finally out. This review looks at how the journey from cartoon to live-action was executed and the ways in which its cast brought their characters to life.

A young man with dark hair (Charlie Bushnell) sits on a rock facing a smaller young boy with blonde hair (Walker Scobell) in a forest of trees, surrounded by dead leaves on the ground. Both boys are wearing orange Camp Half-Blood T-shirts] — *Percy Jackson* Star Charlie Bushnell is a Luke Understander!

March 26, 2024
By Erica Ito
*Percy Jackson and the Olympians* actor Charlie Bushnell walks us through the mind of the iconic antihero Luke Castellan.

A woman with long brown hair wearing a denim shirt stands in front of a tree with green and yellow leaves — Katie Gee Salisbury Honors an Acting Legend in *Not Your China Doll*

March 21, 2024
By Jalen Jones
In *Not Your China Doll*, the newest biography on famed actress Anna May Wong, author Katie Gee Salisbury speaks on what sparked her interest in Wong's life, the Eastern perspective that the book employs throughout, and how she surprisingly feels closer to Wong because of her mixed identity.

A young man performs on a stage. The scenery behind him is a projection of trees. — Zachary Noah Piser Performs From the Heart in New Musical *Redwood* at the La Jolla Playhouse

March 7, 2024
By Melissa Akiko Slaughter
Broadway actor Zachary Noah Piser talks about his role in the new Tina Landau and Idina Menzel musical *Redwood* at the La Jolla Playhouse — as well as his character in the Broadway show *KPOP*, and why original works are so special.

Meredith Hama-Brown on Fear and Family

February 27, 2024
By Hayley Palmer
The writer-director discusses Seagrass, her film about an interracial couple desperate to keep their marriage together. The story is superimposed on an often-overlooked piece of Canadian history: the incarceration of Japanese Canadians during WWII.

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