A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists.

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A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists.

Host Miko Lee takes listeners on a delicious sweet journey into the land of yummy Cambodian donut shops. We hear the stories of the generations of families in the donut shops when we speak with Michelle Sou & Debbie Kim, the creators of Pink Box Stories, donut box artist Phung Huynh and Sophia Hussain, a foodie and bibliophile from Eastwind Books of Berkeley.

Phung Huynh’s work is currently being shown as part of Occidental College’s Breaking Bread in LA show that runs thru November 24.

Find out more at Eastwind Books of Berkeley and purchase the books mentioned in our show tonight: The Donut King, Num Pang and Loves You.

Go see Nassim: Written by Nassim Soleimanpour‍. Directed by Omar Elerian. Through Saturday, Nov. 16. Magic Theatre. Wheelchair accessible.

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A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists.

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A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists.

On tonight’s monthly South Asia spotlight, we bring you some fantastic highlights from the upcoming 3rdi South Asian Film Festival that runs from Nov 7 to 10 in San Francisco and Nov 16th in Palo Alto.

We discuss with the film festival’s Associate Program Manager Pallavi Somusetty; and sit down in in depth conversation with renowned Sri Lankan film maker Prasanna Vithanage about his brilliant film Gaadi: Children of the Sun that premieres at this festival; later in the show, we also talk to filmmaker Prarthana Mohan about her feisty, funny feminist coming of age film, The Miseducation of Bindu, that will screen at the Palo Alto edition of the festival.

Visit: thirdi.org for more details and to buy your tickets!

Show Hosted & Produced by: Preeti Mangala Shekar

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A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists.

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