UCI Professor Daphne Lei and student director Desiree Nguyen, discuss the newly founded troupe Theater Woks, and the layers of being creative while Asian. They will present a staged play-reading of a hilarious play, at the Gillespie Performance Studios on March 8th at 8 p.m., http://www.arts.uci.edu/venue/william-gillespie-performance-studios. For more action on this front, watch for breaking news from “Theater Woks” at UCI.

In the second half, Costa Mesa activist and candidate to return to the City Council, Jay Humphrey has hopes for his Costa Mesa First initiative that would give citizens decision making authority on land use development with major impact. We’ll also have a window on what it means to lose in his 2014 City Council race, by a mere 47 votes.  More information is available at:  http://www.costamesa1st.com/.