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1 week ago | 
brokeassstuart.com | Peter Wong |Peter Wong
May is still Asian-American Pacific Heritage Month despite the Orange Domestic Terrorist’s efforts to wipe the celebration from public memory. While the better films and tv series on Hulu this month come from Japan and South Korea and don’t feature Asian-American talent, at least their existence shows that Asian pop culture is still welcome in America.
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2 months ago | 
brokeassstuart.com | Peter Wong |Peter Wong
Tired of hearing yet another verbal volley of terrible things being said about Israelis or Palestinians? This Friday, March 14, offers the seeds for a different way of approaching the subject of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A documentary and a “post screening processing space” with a meal offer two spiritually conjoined evening events regarding nonviolent paths to peace over this contentious political friction. The evening begins with a screening of There Is Another Way at the Roxie Theater.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
brokeassstuart.com | Peter Wong
Ready to greet 2025 with a loud “Meh?” Hulu’s January offerings will put you in the mood to do so. Admittedly a couple of the month’s highlights jump easily over the bar set by “Manos: The Hands Of Fate.” One such highlight is a docuseries about a young attractive Christian mother who blogs about dying from Stage 3 Lymphoma…and who turned out to be a scammer who went to extreme lengths to fake her illness and pump the suckers for lots of money.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
brokeassstuart.com | Peter Wong
No, January’s change in the White House’s occupancy is not the reason why Netflix scheduled director Lars von Trier’s acclaimed take on the end-of-the-world genre.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
brokeassstuart.com | Peter Wong
Whether it was deliberately planned or just a matter of programming stars aligning, the film offerings for the Winter 2024 calendar of the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive (hereafter “BAMPFA”) gives mental fuel for the truths needed to resist the lies propounded by the authoritarian kakistocracy returning to the White House.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
brokeassstuart.com | Peter Wong |Peter Wong
Does looking with interest at reality dating shows on Hulu mean the heat of these dog days have baked your brain? Not when the dating shows in question promise to widen your images of Muslim-Americans and British lesbians. Besides, more traditionally minded types can always go see new seasons of an animated comedy about aliens stuck on Earth or a star-studded comedy/drama about three true crime podcasters who turn real-life sleuths.
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Jun 8, 2024 | 
brokeassstuart.com | Peter Wong |Peter Wong
Call the Summer 2024 program at the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive (hereafter “BAMPFA”) one filled with gateway drug cinema.
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Dec 27, 2023 | 
bendbulletin.com | Peter Wong
After two successful startup phases, the Oregon Employment Department will soon proceed with the transition of unemployment benefit claims and payments to its upgraded computer system. The payment of unemployment insurance benefits is the mainstay of Employment Department programs. Those benefits go back more than 80 years to the Great Depression and New Deal, when they were created. The current computer system used by the Oregon agency dates back to 1992 and relies on even older technology.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
brokeassstuart.com | Peter Wong |Peter Wong
Ghost stories are just as much a part of winter celebrations as online website visits to buy holiday presents. This year’s Another Hole In The Head (hereafter AHITH) marks the 20th such run up to Christmas (December 1-25) with another batch of ghost stories, horror, science fiction, fantasy, crime drama, suspense, and other indescribable independent cinematic weirdness from around the world. This year, there are many ways to enjoy AHITH.
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Oct 14, 2023 | 
bendbulletin.com | Peter Wong
Oregon’s paid leave program had paid out $21.3 million to 13,000 applicants by the first week of October. Oregon Employment Department officials report that a total of 22,972 applications have been filed since the program began to accept them in mid-August. But Karen Humelbaugh, director of the paid leave program, said others were still being processed — and it is too early to say what the rejection rate is.
