Highlights Award-winning local photographer Subhankar Banerjee whose coverage of our arctic area drew attention to the fragile beauty of that endangered region, gives a slide/talk on “America’s Arctic: Is it for Sale?” on Nov. 30 at UW’s Kane Hall 130. Free. Visual Arts Sandy Lew-Hailer a.k.a. Grrdog Metalworks presents “Tweaking the Edges,” her 25th Annual [...]
BY CLAIRE EMIKO FANT Examiner Contributor In the West, the art of Japan conjures up visions of the Japanese indigenous arts of calligraphy and “sumi” brush painting, “ukiyoe” and modern woodcut prints. The art of wood engraving does not readily pop into one’s mind. Overshadowed by the renaissance of woodcut art in post- World War [...]
BY ROXANNE RAY Examiner Contributor Local Asian American playwrights are hungry for camaraderie, community and opportunities to share their work – and “Insatiable!” is the banquet provided by local theatre company SIS Productions to both the playwrights and Seattle audiences. The presenters of the long-running “Sex in Seattle” serial drama, SIS Productions is now hosting [...]
BY NHIEN NGUYEN Examiner Editor Recent studies show that Asian Pacific Americans are the least likely of all racial/ethnic groups to show up for a doctor’s visit, according to Asian Fortune news. One major reason for this stems from language and cultural barriers that make it difficult to access information, to act and respond to [...]
BY HILARY ABRAMSON New American Media At dawn an elderly Chinese-American woman fiddles with her cell phone at a bus stop, headed for the L.A. county hospital. Cancer is the second thing on her mind. She thinks about the early years, when she took along her neighbor’s 14-year-old son to interpret. She still pictures the [...]
BY CHIZU OMORI Examiner Contributor Yes, my chickens. I have a small flock in my backyard in Seattle. They are happily scratching around, eating feed and grass and greens like our spinach, chard, bok choy. Amazingly, they have endeared themselves to us so thoroughly we spend quite a bit of time tending and watching them. [...]
This special focus on health begins with a look at healthy eating offered to us by Asian farmers at winter farmers markets. Chizu Omori shares her story raising chickens, which provides a healthy diversion from urban living. Also, a new report details how Medicare could pay for medical interpreting for 2.5 million elderly U.S. residents [...]
VABAW honors Thao Tran Thao Tran (left) accepts the first-ever Vietnamese American Bar Association (VABAW) of Washington Community Service Award from Thi Huynh (right). The third annual VABAW banquet was held on Nov. 1 at the Women’s University Club of Seattle. Tran of Rainier Valley Community Development Fund was recognized for his work with Vietnamese [...]
NEW AMERICAN MEDIA NEW YORK — Asian American voters in eight states continued a decade-long shift towards Democratic candidates, with 79 percent of those polled favoring Democrats in this year’s congressional and state elections. They also rejected an affirmative action ban that won in Michigan. Preliminary results of a nonpartisan, multilingual exit poll of over [...]
BY ANDREW LAM New American Media Vietnamese-Americans are asking why only three out of 18 Vietnamese candidates from California won their races for city, state and national offices. Many see only a brief setback for a community rapidly finding its footing in American politics. Eighteen Vietnamese-American candidates ran for office in California this election season, [...]
Examiner News Service As Election 2006 comes to an end, results of a voter survey revealed surprising patterns between voting behavior and attitudes towards immigration and civil liberties issues. For the first time ever in Washington state, a telephone survey was conducted of absentee or vote-by-mail voters in King County. The survey, part of a [...]
BY KEN MOCHIZUKI Examiner Assistant Editor Lori Matsukawa, KING-TV news anchor/reporter, noticed how school buses would drop off busloads of students at the International District’s Uwajimaya store to “experience Japanese American culture.” “Nothing against Uwajimaya, but it’s really not Japanese American culture,” she said. “We need a centralized, organized way to experience the culture.” Members [...]
