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Frank Shyong

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Frank Shyong is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times writing about diversity and diaspora in Los Angeles. He grew up south of Nashville, Tenn., and moved to Los Angeles in 2006 to study economics at UCLA. He joined The Times in 2012 and previously reported on the San Gabriel Valley, Chinese immigration to the Southland and the Asian American community.

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Column: Imagining a different future for the gentrifying neighborhood of Historic Filipinotown

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Column: Imagining a different future for the gentrifying neighborhood of Historic Filipinotown

As Historic Filipinotown gentrifies, locals are trying to make sure the future doesn’t leave the past behind.
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Shyong: Here’s how HiFi, or Historic Filipinotown, got its name

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Shyong: Here’s how HiFi, or Historic Filipinotown, got its name

Historic Filipinotown is cool now. What does that mean?
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What I learned in my first year as an L.A. Times columnist

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What I learned in my first year as an L.A. Times columnist

At the end of my first year as a columnist for the L.A.
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Dryland, a literary journal based in South-Central, tells stories that are often left out

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Dryland, a literary journal based in South-Central, tells stories that are often left out

It’s hard for poet Daniel Morales Leon, 38, who works as a cook at a coffee shop in the Arts District, to think of himself as an artist with a capital A.
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Column: On Thanksgiving, my Taiwanese family makes baozi. One day I asked my father why

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Column: On Thanksgiving, my Taiwanese family makes baozi. One day I asked my father why

Folded within the doughy wrapper is a family’s story of humble roots, columnist Frank Shyong writes. The holidays offer a chance to reexamine our narratives of our families.
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Column: Why did no one warn the housekeepers about the Getty fire?

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Column: Why did no one warn the housekeepers about the Getty fire?

Housekeepers in the Pacific Palisades were unaware of the mandatory evacuations and showed up to work while a threatening fire blazed.

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As wildfires burn across California, President Trump lashes out at the state on Twitter
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Asian hair, and what we talk about in L.A. barbershops

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Asian hair, and what we talk about in L.A. barbershops

Los Angeles’s barbershops are a window into multicultural worlds
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Andrew Yang faces his critics in the Asian American community

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Andrew Yang faces his critics in the Asian American community

Andrew Yang meets with a group of Asian American critics, listens carefully, shows self-awareness, and stops short of an apology.

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This Republican challenging Trump is trying to remind the GOP how much it hates the deficit
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Column: Chinatown without Chinese grocery stores, and the delicate balance of ethnic communities

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Column: Chinatown without Chinese grocery stores, and the delicate balance of ethnic communities

Chinatown is about to lose G and G Market as well as Ai Hoa Market, leaving the neighborhood without a full-service Chinese grocery store.
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Column: We’re thoughtful about what we eat. How come we’re thoughtless about what we share online?

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Column: We’re thoughtful about what we eat. How come we’re thoughtless about what we share online?

There is something about the internet that makes us act dumb, and that includes me.

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