Compiled by Staff Northwest Asian Weekly Northwest Asian Weekly’s Diversity Makes a Difference scholarship program celebrates young people who are committed to reaching out across cultural lines. Students are nominated by their school as being champions of diversity.
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Diversity Makes a Difference — Part 5
Posted on 09 March 2012.
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Filmmaker Frank Abe ensures resisters are never forgotten
Posted on 08 March 2012.
By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Frank Abe’s documentary film “Conscience and the Constitution” begins with two old men discussing the past. They look out over a landscape they seem to know, and swap stories of old. We quickly learn that the two men are Frank Emi and Mits Koshiyama, two leaders of the draft [...]
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New [old] International Children’s Park to bring generations together
Posted on 08 March 2012.
By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly In the 1970s, in the area now known as the International District, there was a small bit of land owned by Dennis Su in the middle of the dense urban area, surrounded by brick buildings filled with residents and local businesses.
Posted in Community News, Features 11, Vol 31 No 11 | 3/10-3/160 Comments
New city office created to aid immigrants
Posted on 08 March 2012.
By Jeffrey Osborn Northwest Asian Weekly Many Americans never face the struggles and hardships of immigration. They never leave their nation due to political strife or military uprising.
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Goodbye, David Ishii, city’s ‘community baby’
Posted on 08 March 2012.
By Jean Godden For Northwest Asian Weekly There are books of mine that, when I page through them, I can’t help remembering where I acquired them. And, if the book is a fine Northwest classic, perhaps signed by the author, I will remember with pleasure that I bought it from David Ishii, the legendary bookseller [...]
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Film lets ‘bullets’ fly, but the result is a confusing 132 minutes
Posted on 08 March 2012.
By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly By the time the viewer is 20 minutes into director Wen Jiang’s new Chinese historical comedy “Let the Bullets Fly,” the legendary bandit “Pockmark” Zhang (played by the director himself) is impersonating the local governor. Actually, another con man (played by You Ge) was impersonating the governor first. But [...]
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EDITORIAL: Miss Seattle bashes Seattle. What’s the appropriate response to this?
Posted on 08 March 2012.
Last Saturday, Jean-Sun Hannah Ahn was crowned Miss Seattle. Ahn was born and raised in Seattle, but went to college in Arizona. There, she was crowned Miss Phoenix. Since graduating, she has moved back to her hometown.
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Celebrate Asia! in pictures
Posted on 06 March 2012.
On Friday, Feb. 24, Seattle’s Asian community and Classical music fans came together for the annual Celebrate Asia! concert. Conducting the Seattle Symphony was Mei-Ann Chen. Master of Ceremonies was Mimi Gan. The event featured famed violinist Hahn-Bin, pipa player Jia Ma, and jazz group The Cuong Vu Group. An original composition by Kay He, [...]
Posted in Community News, Features, Vol 31 No 10 | 3/3-3/90 Comments
Asian Pacific Cultural Center holds 14th Annual New Year Celebration
Posted on 05 March 2012.
On Feb. 11, The Asia Pacific Cultural Center (APCC), headed by Executive Director Faaluaina Pritchard, held its 14th Annual New Year Celebration, called Bula!, at the Tacoma Dome Exhibition Hall.
Posted in Names in the News, Vol 31 No 10 | 3/3-3/90 Comments
MulvannyG2 Architecture holds special reception for new Bellevue Mayor Conrad Lee
Posted on 05 March 2012.
On Feb. 22, MulvannyG2 Architecture hosted a reception to welcome newly elected Bellevue Mayor Conrad Lee into office. The reception took place at the MulvannyG2 headquarter office in Bellevue.
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