— The TV spinoff to the Netflix teen film trilogy “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” called
Two Vietnamese women shop for fruit at a market in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Westminster, Calif., April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)“I don’t really think about it in a negative light,” said Linda Nguyen, a local business leader whose parents were refugees. “For my generation, it’s about honoring what happened, but also celebrating our future and our current successes.”
Little Saigon in Orange County has evolved from a commercial district contained within a few city blocks in Westminster in the late 1980s to a sprawling region spanning several cities. It’s also now considered the cultural capital for the Vietnamese diaspora around the world.“We were looking for a freedom to prosper,” said Trí Trần, a University of California, Irvine professor who left Vietnam by sea on a boat in 1986.Today, thousands of restaurants, shops and offices bear Vietnamese names.
Little Saigon is not only home to Asian Garden Mall, the largest Vietnamese shopping mall in the U.S., but it also hosts the world’s largest international Vietnamese film festival.The population has become a powerful voting bloc in Orange County, elevating some of the first Vietnamese-Americans to elected office. For the first time last year, Orange County elected a Vietnamese-American to Congress. Derek Tran, a Democrat whose parents were refugees, triumphed in a district historically favorable to Republicans.
“We’re very much a young community in this country,” Tran said. “We’re finding our place, but we’re also figuring out how to consolidate our voice and our culture and our history.”
A visitor poses for a photo in front of the Asian Garden Mall, which displays “1975" to mark the year of the fall of Saigon, in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Westminster, Calif., April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)stars in the new FX dramedy
about Molly, a woman diagnosed with terminal cancer who decides to spend the rest of her days living for pleasure. It’s also about the relationship with her best friend Nikki, played by Jenny Slate, who puts her own life on hold to be by Molly’s side. The show is based on a true story that was shared in a podcast of the same name. All eight episodes drop Friday, April 4 on Hulu.— A new Korean thriller series called
comes to Netflix on Friday, April 4. It’s about six people whose lives intersect after a car accident. The show is based on a webcomic by Choi Hee-sun and stars Park Hae-soo, who was in season one of “Squid Game.” His work on that show earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for best supporting actor.is the Finnish word for dog, and what could be more fun than playing with a dog? In this debut game from Brussels-based Studio Tolima, you and the mutt are lost in a snowy forest. You can play fetch and go sledding — or you can sing together to activate magical statues. You can help out other friendly critters like birds, bunnies and fireflies, but beware the black-hatted hunters who seem to have a peculiar interest in your pup. It’s a mellow, text-free, musical trip in a striking 2D world, and you can start exploring Tuesday on PlayStation 5 and PC.