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		<title>Short stories about APIs — NWAW’s monthly must-reads</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 31 No 7 | 2/11-2/17]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly “The Wavering of Haruhi Suzumiya” By Nagaru Tanigawa Little, Brown and Company, 2011 In this latest installment of the Haruhi Suzumiya series, we join Haruhi, Kyon, and the rest of the S.O.S. Brigade (“Save the World By Overloading It With Fun Harhui Suzumiya”) in a new set of misadventures. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Author Ron Chew tells often forgotten story of murdered Filipino cannery workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Northwest Asian Weekly Ron Chew, executive director of the International Community Health Services Foundation, said his recently completed book on Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes, two young cannery union officials murdered in 1981, is the most difficult piece of writing he’s ever done. “It took me 30 years to arrive in an emotional space [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnamese director brings Murakami’s Norwegian Wood’ to life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 31 No 5 | 1/28-2/3]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Director Tran Anh Hung left his native Vietnam in 1975, at the age of 12, after Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese forces. Until the year 2000, he made all of his films, with permission, inside the unified Vietnam, showing a rich mixture of love for his homeland with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New “Full Metal Alchemist” installment bold in story and design</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly “All is of one, and one is in all.” So says an alchemist — a fancy term for magician — at the beginning of “Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos,” the second feature derived from the popular Japanese manga and TV anime “Fullmetal Alchemist.” Over the course of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stories about artists — NWAW’s monthly must-reads</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 31 No 2 | 1/7-1/13]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly &#8220;Drawing from Memory&#8221; By Allen Say Scholastic Press, 2011 From the time he was a young boy growing up in Japan, Allen Say knew he wanted to be a cartoonist. Inspired by comic books, he drew what he saw, what he imagined, and what he copied from his beloved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 10 best Asian films of the year</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly 2011 gave us a wide variety of Asian cinema, from sweeping historical epics to smaller, more human-scaled studies of life. Seek out the following films wherever you can. They are ranked in order of excellence. 10. “Vampire,” directed by Shuji Iawi, starring Kevin Zegers, Rachael Leigh Cook, and Kristin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Outrage’ aptly portrays yakuza, but too gory</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 30 No 51 | 12/17-12/23]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Takeshi Kitano’s new film &#8220;Outrage&#8221; opens with the camera panning slowly across a group of men slouching against luxury cars, some fanning themselves in the heat. They are the yakuza promised in the film’s advance publicity, but they are not stylish. They do not immediately look dangerous. The filmmaker [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old ways meet new, perserving culture — NWAW’s November must-reads</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 30 No 48 | 11/26-12/2]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly “How to Be an American Housewife” By Margaret Dilloway Berkley Books, 2010 Growing up, Shoko was very close with her brother Taro. But when she got older and decided to marry an American GI and leave Japan after the end of World War II, Taro was not happy about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stories about Asians who are gay — NWAW’s October must-reads</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 30 No 44 | 10/29-11/4]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly “Leche” By R. Zamora Linmark Coffee House Press, 2011 After 13 years of living in the United States, Vicente De Los Reyes is returning home. Born in the Philippines, Vicente, or Vince, came to Hawaii when he was only 10 years old. He returns after winning a contest and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SHELF: NWAW’s September must-reads</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly “Hot, Hot Roti for Dadda-ji” Written by F. Zia, Illustrated by Ken Min Lee &#38; Low Books, 2011 Whenever Aneel’s grandparents visit, they tell him stories about their lives growing up in an Indian village. During one particular visit, Aneel’s grandfather, Dadda-ji, tells him that when he was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ip Man: a legend shamefully overlooked</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 30 No 38 | 9/17-9/23]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly &#160; Ip Man (1893–1972) was a legendary Chinese marital artist whose students included a young Bruce Lee. Several films have been based on his amazing life. This newest one, “The Legend is Born: Ip Man,” is the first to offer an account — fictionalized, but derived loosely from real [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review of John Sayles&#8217; “Amigo,&#8221; about a war not well-remembered by Americans</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American director John Sayles has a long and distinguished history of tackling difficult projects addressing difficult aspects of life and history. His latest film “Amigo,” set in the Philippines, explores a time in history not well-remembered by most Americans, but which remains vivid to Filipinos ...]]></description>
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		<title>SHELF: NWAW’s August must-reads, strangers brought together by unusual circumstances</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 01:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a weekday afternoon, a major earthquake hits an unnamed American city, trapping nine individuals in the Indian consulate’s visa office located in the basement of the building ... ]]></description>
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		<title>The Old west gets a new sci-fi twist, “Trigun”-style</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Director Satoshi Nishimura’s anime feature “Trigun:  Badlands Rumble” begins with frantic police radio calls and the ringing of a burglar alarm inside a bank. We see bank employees held hostage as the robbers pillage the vault, arguing about how to divide the loot. But this is no ordinary bank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fantasy and sci-fi, oh my! — NWAW’s July book recommendations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 22:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly “Tiger’s Quest” By Colleen Houck Splinter, 2011 In this second installment of Houck’s “Tiger Saga,” Kelsey Hayes has returned to Oregon after her extraordinary adventures in India. As she tries to adjust to a normal life free of the dangers of immortal sea monkeys and 300-year-old curses, Kelsey also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Snow Flower and the Secret Fan”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 30 No 30 | 7/23-7/29]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 30 No 30 | July 23 - July 29]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Director Wayne Wang’s new dramatic film “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” begins with a business diner in Shanghai. The well-dressed Chinese at the table speak fluent English and toast two of their number. Nina (played by Bingbing Li) and Sebastian (Archie Kao) are to leave for New York [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Director Lu explores fall of Nanking</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 30 No 28 | 7/9-7/15]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 30 No 28 | July 9 - July 15]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Chinese director Chuan Lu graduated from the prestigious Beijing Film Academy and wrote his dissertation on Francis Ford Coppola, director of the “Godfather” saga. He summons all of his knowledge for his devastating third dramatic feature, “City of Life and Death,” a study of the Nanking Massacre. The still-shocking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NWAW’s June must-reads — This month’s theme: arranged marriages</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2011/06/nwaw%e2%80%99s-june-must-reads-%e2%80%94-this-month%e2%80%99s-theme-arranged-marriages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 30 No 26 | 6/25-7/1]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 30 No 26 | June 25 - July 1]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly “Bone Worship” By Elizabeth Eslami Pegasus Books LLC, 2010 After four years of hard work and no play, Jasmine Fahroodhi has failed out of college. Her classmates are getting ready to begin the rest of their lives, but Jasmine has moved from Chicago back to Arrowhead, Ga. And to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Award-winning film from Thai director expertly defies conventions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 30 No 25 | 6/18-6/24]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 30 No 25 | June 18 - June 24]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Thailand’s Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who turns 40 in July, began making feature films 11 years ago in 2000. Working outside the Thai studio system, he quickly established himself as an artistic maverick, with films rich in light and spirit. Their literal meanings sometimes remained ambiguous, but the distinctive vision and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NWAW at SIFF This week: relationships, relationships, relationships, and a kung fu mystery</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2011/06/nwaw-at-siff-this-week-relationships-relationships-relationships-and-a-kung-fu-mystery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 30 No 23 | 6/4-6/10]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 30 No 23 | June 4 - June 10]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Released to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of Battle of P’ohang-dong in the Korean War, this historical re-creation of those conditions satisfies on all the levels of the classic war movie. ]]></description>
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