CHINA- Wednesday, April 15, 2010 - A 7.1 earthquake struck Qinghai Province, China early Wednesday morning leaving 300 dead, countless injured and considerable damage in the province that borders Tibet. How you can help [via HuffPost]
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From: I can't do this,
I'm not an artist
To: Wow! I can't believe
I did this! That was amazing!
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January 23, 2010, Saturday 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California Full list of winners and nominees
Congratulations GLEE ensemble!!!!! Outstanding performance indeed. Fantastic season so far. Thank you.
Jane Lynch and cast accepting the SAG award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
DIANA AGRON / Quinn Fabray CHRIS COLFER / Kurt Hummel PATRICK GALLAGHER / Ken Tanaka JESSALYN GILSIG / Terri Schuester JANE LYNCH / Sue Sylvester JAYMA MAYS / Emma Pillsbury KEVIN McHALE / Arty Abrams LEA MICHELE / Rachel Berry CORY MONTEITH / Finn Hudson HEATHER MORRIS / Brittany MATTHEW MORRISON / Will Schuester AMBER RILEY / Mercedes Jones NAYA RIVERA / Santana Lopez MARK SALLING / Noah “Puck” Puckerman HARRY SHUM JR. / Mike Chang JOSH SUSSMAN / Jacob Ben Israel DIJON TALTON / Matt Rutherford IQBAL THEBA / Principal Figgins JENNA USHKOWITZ / Tina Cohen-Chang
Lea Michelle in a gorgeous ruffled emerald green Catharine Malandrino [via]
Dianna Agron in silver stone embellished, black belted strapless off-white gown by Edition by Georges Chakra [via]
Naya Rivera, Jane Lynch, and Heather Morris. Lynch is wearing an Ali Rahimi gown in deep blue. [via] (Lynch wore a deep green peephole halter Rahimi to the Golden Globes.)
Presentation for Best Ensemble and Glee’s acceptance speech (video; starts at 3:24)
A cluster of publicists used walkie-talkies to coordinate how to get the whole cast of “Glee” in one spot as stars Dianna Agron and Jane Lynch posed for photos on different corners of the carpet.
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PARTY SCENE: The cast of “Glee” celebrated their victory for best comedy ensemble at the official SAG Awards after party, held inside a plush tent in the Shrine Auditorium parking lot. Star Jane Lynch cuddled with her girlfriend as the rest of the cast drank Champagne, nibbled on lobster pot pie and baked mac and cheese and posed for photos with their trophies
Glee cast with their SAG awards (L to R): Matthew Morrison, Jayma Mays (behind Morrison in red), Iqbal Theba, Kevin McHale, Jessalyn Gilsig, Jane Lynch (back), Lea Michelle, Cory Monteith (back), Jenna Ushkowtiz, Josh Sussman (back), Amber Riley, Patrick Gallagher (back), Dianna Agron, Harry Shum Jr (back), Dijon Talton, Heather Morris. Not pictured here: Mark Salling, Chris Colfer, Naya Rivera
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Producer Brian Murphy and the cast pose backstage in the press room at the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA Sunday, January 17, 2010
CENTURY CITY, CA - JANUARY 17: (L-R) Actors Igbal Theba, Jenna Ushkowitz, creator Ryan Murphy, and actor Kevin McHale arrive at the FOX 2010 Golden Globes Party held at Craft on January 17, 2010 in Century City, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
CENTURY CITY, CA - JANUARY 17: Actor Iqbal Theba & Patrick Gallagher arrive at the FOX 2010 Golden Globes Party held at Craft on January 17, 2010 in Century City, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
CENTURY CITY, CA - JANUARY 17: Actor Harry Shum Jr. & Jenna Ushkowitz arrive at the FOX 2010 Golden Globes Party held at Craft on January 17, 2010 in Century City, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
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Patrick Gallagher sent me an email to confirm that he is indeed of Chinese and Irish-American descent. Woot!
Unique info to this site is Gallagher’s reveal that his mother is Chinese, but Jakarta-born (economic prosperity lured the Chinese to migrate to Indonesia); his father is Irish-American, hence his last name; he is of dual Canadian and U.S. Citizenship.
There it is people. The winning answers to Trivial Pursuit, Glee (no it’s not a real game…yet) You heard it here first.
Thanks for the email Patrick Gallagher! U ROCK DUDE!
Notes: 1) Though Wiki has now been edited to include PG’s ethnic descent, it does not have a reference 2) At the time of my original post (Sept 2009) no sources specified his ethnicity 3) Only the Vancouver Sun has quotes from Gallagher confirming PG’s ethnicity in Nov 2009
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Aug09 Glee premiere in Culver City, CA
May09 Glee premiere event Santa Monica
Patrick Gallagher
is currently starring as Coach Ken Tanaka on Fox’s hit series Glee. Gallagher also most recently played one of Erik’s main vampires, Chow, on HBO’s hit series True Blood. (Heard of it?) Gallagher was also Atilla the Hun in both 2009 & 2006 installments of Ben Stiller’s Night at the Museum AND Grimes in BSG’s March 18, 2005 episode, “Colonial Day”.
Seriously - Glee, True Blood, and Battlestar Galactica? ROCK ON!
Glee returns April 13, 2010 See full episodes here. [via]
Gallagher was born on February 21, 1968 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. Though his name relays no Asian roots, I suspect he is of part Asian descent. Some research narrows my guess to either Chinese or Filipino or both (10% and 2% population in BC per Wiki.) More on Patrick Gallagher at IMDB.
UPDATE! (as of December 30, 2009)
Got an email from the man himself! Woot! Patrick Gallagher confirmed he is of Chinese and Irish-American descent. (Note: No primary source had confirmed this information at the time of my original September 2009 post. Though Wiki has edited its post, it does not have a reference. Vancouver Sun quotes Gallagher with this info, Nov 21, 2009)
Stay tuned for more UPDATES. Thanks for the email Patrick Gallagher!
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It appears that Fox hit series, Glee, will be saying goodbye to Coach Ken Tanaka, played by Patrick Gallagher. 
