Dan Mar passed away on Nov. 26. He died at age 80 of heart failure. Mar, a long-time community leader and generous contributor, was born in 1925 in Seattle. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1946 as an electrician, Third Class, according to the Wing Luke Asian Museum’s “Reflections of Seattle’s Chinese [...]
BY BOB SANTOS AND FRANCES YOUN On Dec. 1, Partners for Livable Communities presented the annual Bridge Builders Award to seven individuals and organizations from throughout the nation. Bob Santos, Larry Gossett, Roberto Maestas, the late Bernie Whitebear (who was represented by his niece, Kecia Reyes), and Dorry Elias-Garcia were presented with the awards for [...]
Visual Arts “The Simple Cup” is a small exhibit that explores this basic form as created by over 50 ceramic artists worldwide including Northwest names like Akio Takamori and Beth Lo. Through Dec. 30. KOBO at Higo. 604 S. Jackson. www.koboseattle.com. KOBO Teapot show features work from Japan, Europe and the Northwest. Through Dec. 30. [...]
By Bob Suh Examiner Contributor “Aeon Flux” Director: Karyn Kusama Cast: Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller, Sophie Okonedo, Pete Postlethwaite, Frances McDormand Rated PG-13, 93 min. When I heard that they were finally going to bring animator/writer Peter Chung’s highly respected MTV animated series “Aeon Flux” to the big screen, I hoped for [...]
BY JUDITH VAN PRAAG Examiner Arts Writer From Sunday, Dec. 18 through Thursday, Dec. 22, Seattle’s downtown Grand Hyatt Hotel hosts a special exhibit of the Dai Family Art Collection of 19th and 20th Century traditional Chinese master pieces. The Dai Family’s ancestors were high level officials in the Qing Dynasty and began the tradition [...]
BY JUDITH VAN PRAAG Examiner Arts Writer Pardon me for licking my fingers. I just ate part of the artfully decorated chocolate “J” I received in the mail yesterday, just in time for “Sinterklaas” on the 5th of December. My friend Albert in the Netherlands wanted me to celebrate Saint Nicholas’ birthday in style, in [...]
BY Kelli Nakayama ICHS Kathy Lin spends upwards of four hours on the phone on most days. Switching from English to Cantonese and back, she makes calls and answers inquiries from mostly Chinese-speaking, Medicare-eligible senior citizens about Medicare’s new Prescription Drug Plan (PDP). Lin is an Outreach Worker at International Community Health Services (ICHS), a [...]
“Balikbayan” is a term commonly coined to people of Filipino descent who have lived in a country outside the Philippines for a number of years, and then returns to the Philippines either to visit or to settle there for good. In Tagalog, “Balik” means to come back; “bayan” means country. R. R-Kayma D. Gander III, [...]
BY NAPAWF National Staff The National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) opposes the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito, Jr. as associate justice to the Supreme Court of the United States. As the only national, multi-issue Asian Pacific American (APA) women’s advocacy organization, NAPAWF believes that Judge Alito would undermine reproductive freedom, narrowly interpret constitutional [...]
President Bush signs Angel Island Immigration Station & Restoration Act San Francisco – On Thursday, Dec. 1, President George W. Bush signed into law H.R. 606, the “Angel Island Immigration Station Restoration & Preservation Act” authorizing appropriations of $15 million for the restoration of the Angel Island Immigration Station, according to a press release. “What [...]
BY CRYSTAL NAM UW News Lab Haruka Uehara knows that when she returns to Japan, she will bring back a new perspective to her studies in the field of international relations after her experiences in the United States. She is among 20 students from Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan, who arrived in September to take [...]
BY ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER COALITION Our immigration policies and practices are broken and in need of major reform. The backlog of those eligible to enter this country includes a huge number from Asian countries that have been waiting for over 10 years. The estimates of persons here in this country without legal permission are as [...]
BY LUCIA ENRIQUEZ Examiner Contributor In a conversation I had with Peter Bacho, he said that figuring out our place in history presents the surest existential problem. And so this defines the problem of Rico Divina, the lead character in Bacho’s latest novel, “Entrys” (University of Hawaii Press, 2005). Divina, a young Filipino-Indian American, or [...]
BY NHIEN NGUYEN Examiner Staff Mike Lee* was referred to Asian Counseling & Referral Service (ACRS) for his mental health problems. He was anxious, emotional and complained about people taking advantage of him. He even made several attempts to commit suicide. After working with Lee, ACRS Mental Health Case Manager Louis Leung discovered the source [...]
