7:00 PM Pacific Time: Thursdays
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Bodies stripped open and on display in "The Universe Within" can’t hide questions about how they got there in the first place. SF Supervisor Fiona Ma talks about concerns that these bodies from China are being exhibited without consent and proper procedure. Also, we talk with DJ Cheb I Sabbah whose groundbreaking work helped bring … Continued
On last week’s show, the detentions in Lodi’s Pakistani Muslim community was a focus. How people respond to this and how they re-define themselves under pressure is this week’s segment. We talk with Pakistani American organizer Samina Faheem Sundas, who also relates the kinds of threats she’s faced. And, Bill Lee has written about his … Continued
Internationally acclaimed DJ Krush from Japan is on Apex! MC, DJ Shing02 caught up with Krush and learned about his latest recording "Jaku", how Krush gets his inspiration, the challenges that using Japanese traditional instruments posed to him and how DJ Krush got his name. And, a flag marks a dividing line in the Vietnamese … Continued
It’s the first week of the month. MC Kiwi hosts Apex’s API Hip Hop show. Joining us will be a representative from AYPAL (API Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership) to talk about their new campaign. It’s fueled by a bay area-wide collaboration of six API social service agencies that bring Filipinos, Cambodian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, … Continued
A Refugee Trilogy: holds the eye of the camera and the ear to the heart of families who escaped war only to find new conflicts while growing up in America and searching for heritage. We’ll talk with teacher, filmmaker Spencer Nakasato and Cambodian American Mike Siv who returns to Cambodia to seek out his past … Continued
Movies, Martial Arts and Marathon on Apex. Though known for his films and martial arts, Bruce Lee was also a philosopher and innovator. For Lee, his life in the East Bay was a formative, but little-known period. In the books Dragon and The Tiger, authors Sid Campbell and Greglon Lee explore these years in Lee’s … Continued
It’s the first Thursday of the Month and Apex Outa the Box is on! Bringing you live API hip-hop, we start by featuring artists of Bindlestiff – FilAm artspace central in SF. MC Bambu and Crown City Rockers are also on-air and listen for other MCs, hot topics and more music with MC Kiwi and … Continued
At the edge of war and peace. Thirty years of diaspora: members of the Vietnamese Artists Collective present their work as well as talk about an up-coming evening of film and poetry about the exodus of Vietnamese around the world after the war. And, Hibakusha – or survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Japan … Continued
