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	<title>NIKKEI VIEW: The Asian American Blog &#187; pop culture</title>
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	<description>GIL ASAKAWA&#039;S JAPANESE AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE ON POP CULTURE, MEDIA &#38; POLITICS</description>
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		<title>Anime this week in Denver &#8211; &#8220;Fullmetal Alchemist: The Star of Milos&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gil Asakawa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Denver fans of cutting-edge Japanese manga and anime can immerse themselves this week in the alternate steampunk European world of &#8220;Fullmetal Alchemy,&#8221; a popular series of comic and animated TV series and feature films that have captivated audiences on both sides of the Pacific since 2001, when the series launched in Japan as a serial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tebow-mania gets Denver Filipinos attention in Philippines press</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gil Asakawa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The glow of Tebow-mania will fade as the Broncos head into the off-season, but the quarterback&#8217;s remarkable run with the team put the spotlight light on Denver&#8217;s Filipino community before the season&#8217;s end. Tebow has a deep connection to the Philippines: he was born there to missionary parents, and he funds healthcare organizations there with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lowe&#8217;s pulls ads from &#8220;All American Muslim&#8221; series, sparks debate on both sides, brings out the haters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gil Asakawa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOTE: UPDATE BELOW, ON DEC. 16 Lowe&#8217;s this week backed out as an advertiser on the TLC network&#8217;s superior reality TV show, &#8220;All-American Muslim,&#8221; which follows the lives of five Muslim American families in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit that&#8217;s home to the largest Mulsim population in the U.S. I visited Dearborn when I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AWESOME: Cool video mashup of &#8220;One Love&#8221; &amp; Ue O Muite Arukou&#8221; (&#8220;Sukiyaki&#8221; to some) by Tohoku musicians</title>
		<link>http://www.nikkeiview.com/blog/2011/09/07/awesome-cool-video-mashup-of-one-love-ue-o-muite-arukou-sukiyaki-to-some-by-tohoku-musicians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gil Asakawa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find this magically powerful. It&#8217;s a sweet rendition of one of my all-time favorite songs (and one I was just playing last night on the guitar). And it&#8217;s also an expression of hope, community and rebirth from musicians in the Tohoku region of NE Japan, set amidst the cleaned-up but still devastated area hammered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I love the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gil Asakawa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It struck me towards the end of the first day of the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival that the clash of cultures I had just witnessed perfectly encapsulates why I’ve been a volunteer for this event since it was started in 2001. (Full disclosure: Last year, my partner Erin Yoshimura took on the role as executive [...]]]></description>
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