- The exhibition Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids, featuring over 70 photographs by UCSB professor Kip Fulbeck, is on display at the Japanese American National Museum through Sept. 26. Fulbeck’s book by the same name, which contains a foreward by local resident Dr. Maya Soetoro-Ng (President Obama’s sister), is also in stores now. The Huffington Post talks with Fulbeck here.
- The Pacific Citizen sits down with NFL linebacker Scott Fujita, who is still basking in post-Super Bowl bliss.
- Remembering Japanese American baseball in Monterey Bay.
- The Rafu Shimpo covers a symposium on the difficulties Issei doctors had to go through to open a Japanese Hospital in the 1920s.
- Jessica Simpson’s The Price of Beauty takes a look at the practice of double eyelid surgery tonight on VH1.
- Thousands came to see Monterey Park’s annual Cherry Blossom Festival, which also featured hula dancers.
- And speaking of cherry blossoms, the city of Toronto is embracing the beauty of its sakura trees, which are now in bloom.
