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Nyesha Arrington is a competitor on Bravo’s Top Chef: Texas. The current season (season nine) premiered in November and airs on Wednesday nights on Bravo. Here’s some info regarding Top Chef: Texas (From Bravo): It’s a whole new ballgame for the competing chefs on Bravo’s Top Chef: Texas. For the first-time ever, season nine will boast a record 29 chefs — almost double the amount of chefs in season’s past — who will see if they have what it takes to become an official cheftestant and qualify to wear the Top Chef coat. Only 16 will go on to compete across the Lone Star State — in Austin, Dallas and San Antonio. In what will prove to be the most challenging season yet, some of the biggest names in food, music, and entertainment including Charlize Theron, Pee-wee Herman, Cat Cora, John Besh, Tim Love, Patti LaBelle will be featured this season on Top Chef: Texas. Returning to the Judges’ Table is host Padma Lakshmi and head judge, chef Tom Colicchio, alongside judges Gail Simmons and new this season, famed chef and restaurateur Emeril Lagasse and critically-acclaimed chef Hugh Acheson. Nyesha is currently the Executive Chef at Wilshire Restaurant in Santa Monica, California. Along with the show competition, fans can vote for their Top Chef Fan Favorite. Make sure to vote Team Nyesha!
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Chef Nyesha Arrington Competing on Bravo’s ‘Top Chef: Texas’
HalfKorean.com Contest: Autographed Greg Pak “Vision Machine” Comic Book!
New HalfKorean.com contest for an autographed copy of Greg Pak’s Vision Machine comic book!
We have two copies that we will be giving away to two winning entrants. The contest will run for the month of December.
Check out the Vision Machine website for more information regarding the story. In fact, you can read the entire graphic novel digitally as a PDF file.
Also, please make sure to check out our HalfKorean.com Interview with Greg from this past July.
How to Enter:
1) If you are on Facebook, “Like” the Vision Machine and HalfKorean.com pages on Facebook for one entry (you must follow both accounts for the first entry).
2) If you are on Twitter, “Follow” @GregPak and HalfKorean.com on Twitter for a second entry (you must follow both accounts for the second entry).
(Note: If you already “Like” the Facebook page and “Follow” us on Twitter then you are already entered! Just make sure to do step 3 below!)
3) Next, leave a comment here on this blog post by 11:59 PST Saturday, December 31st. Please make sure to include your Facebook and/or Twitter usernames so that we can verify.
Rules:
Two winners will be randomly chosen and contest is open to USA/Canada residents only (APO/FPO addresses okay as well).
Dia Frampton Releasing “Red” Album
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Dia Frampton, of the indie rock band Meg & Dia, is set to release her first solo album, Red, December 6th on Universal Republic Records. The first single and music video, “The Broken Ones,” was released last month. Earlier this year, Dia was runner up on NBC’s The Voice which helped pave the way for her solo debut and a whole new additional fan base for her as well as deserved exposure for Meg & Dia. Here is the Red track-list (courtesy of iTunes):
The album can be purchased at iTunes or Amazon For more on Dia, please make sure to check out our HalfKorean.com Interview with her and her sister Meg from this past March.
Dia Frampton – “The Broken Ones”
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 Dia Frampton – Red  Dia Frampton – “The Broken Ones” Images courtesy of Amazon.com |
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Denis Kang vs. Shungo Oyama at Road FC 5: Night of Champions
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Denis Kang (데니스 강) is scheduled to fight Shungo Oyama in the main event at Road FC 5: Night of Champions on Saturday, December 3rd, 2011 at Jangchung Gymnasium in Seoul, South Korea. This will be Kang’s third fight for Road FC after signing a multi-fight deal with the Korean promotion in early 2011. He has split his last two fights, defeating Eun Soo Lee by unanimous decision at Road FC 2: Alive in April and losing to Seung Bae Whi by TKO at Road FC 3: Explosion in July. In somewhat related news, Kang will be in UFC’s next installment of their video game series, UFC Undisputed 3, as part of the PRIDE FC roster. The game is scheduled for release on February 14, 2012. He was part of the UFC Undisputed 2010 roster following his tenure in UFC during 2009. UFC Undisputed 3 will mark the first game that has all three prominent mixed Korean MMA fighters (Kang, BJ Penn and Ben Henderson). For more on Denis, please check out our HalfKorean.com Interview with him from last year.
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Stop the Deportation of Russell David Green
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We recently found out about the plight of Russell David Green (Lim Sang Keum), a mixed-race Korean adoptee who is facing deportation. We ask that everyone take a moment and please visit Change.org and sign the petition to stop the deportation of Mr. Green. The goal is to reach 10,000 signatures by January 1, 2012. To learn more and to take action, please visit below. Here is the background information regarding the story (Courtesy of AdopSource): Russell Green (Lim Sang Keum) was born to a Korean mother and an American soldier and has lived in the U.S. for over 30 years. He currently faces possible deportation to Korea – a country whose language he cannot speak, where he has no family who recognizes him, and that revoked his citizenship as part of their adoption laws. He arrived in Massachusetts from Korea as a 12-year-old boy, but after only a few months, his “forever parents” returned him to the adoption agency before his adoption was finalized. Russell was then placed with a single foster parent living in Brooklyn, New York who cared for older boys and who promised to adopt him. Although this foster parent renamed Sang Keum “Russell David Green,” he did not legally change Russell’s name, adopt him, and facilitate his naturalization. Instead, he exposed Russell to alcohol, marijuana, and abuse and set him up for a lifetime of addiction, danger, and pain. The agency failed to facilitate a permanent family and home for Russell as a U.S. citizen. Through its irresponsibility, it reduced him to a condition of statelessness, which means in effect that he has lived under constant threat of deportation. Russell’s ties to the U.S., which he considers his home, are deeply personal. Although not being officially adopted, he is regarded as a son by an elderly American couple who have loved and cared for him for over 20 years. He is a father to three children who were born in New York. Russell’s story could be any intercountry adoptee’s story. A child is vulnerable to the neglect of the receiving country and its adoption agencies, which are bound to act in her/his best interests. As immigrants who journeyed to the U.S. to be adopted, we in the adoptee community and our allies cannot allow these unjust deportations. Children do not come to the U.S. of their own volition to be adopted. They should not be vulnerable to deportation as adults because the intercountry adoption system failed to uphold their rights when they were children.
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 Russell David Green Image courtesy of AdopSource / Korean Bridge |