Contents: PMX Event: PMX Swap Meet at the Monterey Park Cherry Blossom Festival , Attention Asian Street Fashionistas! , Community Spotlight: Thai New Year Festival, Event Report: Let the Good Times Roll at Otaku Bowl ,Contests and Freebies, PMX on Facebook/Twitter
FREE to Attend! PMX Swap Meet at the Monterey Park Cherry Blossom Festival
Click on the banner above to see the list of vendors and items for sale. Some items are brand new at rock bottom prices!
Attention Asian Street Fashionistas!
Do you normally dress in Asian Street Fashion while shopping or just walking around town? Are you familiar with fashion magazines like Kera or FRUiTS and wondered how you can get into something like that? You're in luck! If our PMX photographers spot you in Little Tokyo in Los Angeles or Japantown in San Francisco dressed in trendy duds, you might end up in the PMX MySpace photo album!
Our PMX fashion photographers will be on the lookout at the Monterey Park Cherry Blossom Festival! So dress up in cosplay, lolita, street fashion, or Jrock-style and we'll see you on our MySpace page!
Community Spotlight: Thai New Year is Hot in Hollywood
by Paula Angeles, PMX Staff
On Saturday, April 5, 2009, the Thaitown section of Los Angeles near Hollywood hosted the 6th Annual Thai New Year Songkran Festival. This free to attend festival spanned several blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and featured a myriad of events from Thai Kickboxing demonstrations to a traditional costume fashion show.
One of the main attractions of this festival was the food. There were rows and rows of tents selling traditional Thai food such as Pad Thai, Papaya Salad, and Chicken Satay. Singha, the beer of Thailand, also had a Singha Pavilion (Sorry! 21+ only!) where you can drink a pitcher of lager through their cool pitcher. Let's not forget the Curry Festival! This searing part of the festival tested the tastebuds of many people with varying degrees of delicious heat. Pain never tasted so good! For more information on the New Year Festival, bookmark http://www.ThaiNewYear.com for the 2010 event.
P.S: Due to the political unrest in Thailand right now, the editors of the PMX Newsletter send our heartfelt thoughts to our Thai friends. May your family and friends be safe and sound in Bangkok and throughout Thailand.
by Paula Angeles, PMX Staff
On Saturday, March 21, 2009, we went and found anime fans in the most unlikely of places: the bowling alley! People had a blast on the lanes of the Classic Bowling Center in Daly City, CA. In between hurling bowling balls of varying weights, there were giveaways and raffles of an anime nature. Everyone who attended left with a prize. The next Otaku Bowl will be in May so bookmark this page for more information: http://otakubowl.webs.com. Preregistration is only $10!
Bowling for anime.
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Contests and Freebies for April 2009
Win a basket full of anime at the Monterey Park Cherry Blossom Festival! If you're attending the PMX Swap Meet on April 18 and 19, don't forget to buy a raffle ticket for $1.00 to win a basket filled with anime goodies! There's even Pocky and Ramune in there! This basket will contain items that are not for sale in any convention. These special items were donated by Bandai, PMX, and Alternate Reality Comics (all the way from Las Vegas, NV)!
Contest deadline EXTENDED April 30, 2009! PMX is having our first ever Button Design Contest! One stipulation: your design must fit in a one-inch round button. Send us your name and your design by email at marketing(at)pacificmediaexpo.com and we'll post your design on our forums so that everyone can judge which design is the best. The winner gets 25 buttons with their design (because buttons are never for sale, only earned) and a pair of PMX 2009 Full badge memberships! Send all submissions to marketing(at)pacificmediaexpo.com.
We also have a monthly raffle that ends at midnight, April 30, 2009. This month's prizes is: an autographed and framed Kaya postcard! Go to http://www.PacificMediaExpo.com to enter.
Social Networking with PMX
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