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For Asian Arts Initiative, Housing Hitch Overshadows Program Kickoff

WHYY/Alex Schmidt, April 3, 2009

After being booted from its home, which was in the path of the Pennsylvania Convention Center Expansion, the Asian Arts Initiative today celebrates its grand reopening and the launch of various community art programs. But things aren’t completely wrapped up. Gayle Isa speaks on the hurdles remaining to a permanent home for the Asian Arts Initiative.

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Asian Arts Initiative celebrating new home

The Philadelphia Inquirer/ Zoe Tillman, April 3, 2009

The new home of the Asian Arts Initiative boasts a storefront gallery, professionally lit performance areas, and plenty of rooms for after-school classes and artists' workshops.

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Photos Cast Immigrants as Superheroes

MYFOX DC/ Anthony Bartkewicz, March 31,2009

The people in photographer Dulce Pinzon's "Superheroes" series are all Latino immigrants, most of them from Mexico. They work jobs ranging from waiter to nanny to gigolo and send between $300 and $2,000 back home to their families every month.

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Colquitt, Ga., mixture of old, ultra modern

Gadsden Times/ Jimmy Smothers, March 31, 2009

One could say this is a typical old Southern town, and on the surface that might be correct. A closer look reveals it is anything but, and that is why I’m here, to see first hand what a handful of citizens did to revitalize this town.

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Forgotten Factory Worker

SEE Magazine/G.H Lewmer, March 26, 2009

History is written by the winners and believed by the suckers. For over 2,000 years, the collective has had to suffer all the falsehoods that the entitled elite fob off on us as "truths." And nowhere is manufactured, approved truth more of a fabrication than in the creative arena, where bodies of innovators are littered at the feet of ruthless opportunists who hoodwinked the public into believing they had talent. Danny Williams, the subject of Esther Robinson’s fine documentary A Walk into the Sea, is an excellent example of a forgotten visionary who deserved far better.

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