On this episode, we check out the latest film in the long running Karate Kid franchise of martial arts coming of age films, The Karate Kid Legends. This iteration stars Ben Wong as Li Fong, the very first Asian karate kid, who moves to New York and as Karate Kids do, runs afoul of the local karate bully who he then needs to defeat in a regional karate tournament. So is this modern update to a nostalgic favorite good pop?

What's Popping? - Is This Seat Taken, Boots, What a Time to be Alive, Saltcrop

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Don't miss an all AAPI production of HENRY VI: A Trilogy in Two Parts at The Public in NYC

The National Asian American Theatre Company’s acclaimed production of HENRY VI: A TRILOGY IN TWO PARTS brings an all-AANHPI cast to The Public Theater for a decades-spanning saga of Joan of Arc, warring dukes, and the bloody birth of the War of the Roses. Adapted by Stephen Brown-Fried, this is Shakespeare like you've never experienced it. Part 1: Foreign Wars opens with a king dead, an infant on the throne, and a country already coming apart at the seams. Part 2: Civil Strife picks up nearly 30 years later...and the bloodbath is yet to come. Simmering feuds explode into the War of the Roses, and nothing will ever be the same. Performances from June 9 through July 19! Use code H6BC for $59 tickets!

Henry VI at The Public with an all AAPI cast