How Chinese Food Fueled the Rise of California Punk Movie Updates

Thu., Jan. 23, 2020

• added Awkwafina as actor and producer to movie credits
• added drama as genre
• added Topic Studios as a production company
• added Madeline Leung Coleman as (journalist) to movie credits
• added a synopsis

• Set during the recession of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Chinatown restaurants from Sacramento to San Francisco start renting their banquet halls for rehearsal space and booking the young bands of nascent West Coast punk as dinner entertainment t... show all o bring in additional business. These Chinese and Filipino restaurants become some of California's most important venues and the focal point of the seminal West Coast punk music scene.

• changed the movie production status to Development
• created the movie page