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 Rebecca Kobayashi is a copy editor for Miss A. Rebecca is a recent graduate of Kenyon College, with an English Major and Japanese Language Minor. She also would have been a Film major if she could have pulled it off. She is a Washington, DC area native and resides most of the year in Northern Virginia. She has also lived for a few years in Belgium and a year in Japan and loves exploratory traveling and international food. Rebecca is very interested in investigating the way popular culture media can reflect the societies that create them. She also secretly has a soft spot for so-bad-they’re-good 80s films. Depending on the day, she really enjoys attending exciting live performances or just curling up with a really good mystery or graphic novel. |
 
In recent years, Hollywood has been searching far and wide for stories to update and turn into blockbusters. They take a classic, cast some big names, add a bit more action, darken a few of the themes and release it on the world–with mixed results. This time, the story turned film, “Snow White and [...] 
Men Against Breast Cancer (MABC) and associated group, Newzdudes, are hosting a charity event at the Chevy Chase BVLGARI store on June 7 to raise funds that go toward helping men support their loved one’s with cancer. The event will also be a relaxing time in which to mingle and celebrate cancer survivors and [...] 
The kids of Charlotte’s Marsh Road Boys & Girls Club are in for a treat on Thursday, May 24, because the DOLE Shake It Up tour is stopping by to provide yummy snacks and facilitate further donations. Charlotte is one of the special stops on Dole’s summer tour. The tour, which began in New [...] Conference On Asian Pacific American Leadership Hosts Inaugural Asian Pacific American Heritage Ball
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the federal government’s designation of May as Asian Pacific American Heritage month. In celebration of this anniversary, and to honor those of Asian Pacific background who have served our nation in public office, the Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership (CAPAL) is hosting the first ever Asian [...] 
(Photo Credit: scrambledsideup.wordpress.com) Despite living so close to Washington D.C., I only saw the famous cherry blossoms for the first time last year. They are gorgeous and notoriously at their peak for only a few days–the Japanese paradigm of effervescent beauty. As we celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Japan’s gift of cherry trees [...] |
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June 7th, 2012 
