By Alan Lau Highlights “To Sleep So As To Dream,” Kaizo Hayashi’s beautiful celebration of Japanese silent cinema, is screened with new music and “benshi” narraration as performed live by Aono Jikken ensemble on Jan. 19 & 20 at 7 p.m. Get your tickets early as performances tend to sell out fast. Also Northwest Asian [...]
BY DEAN WONG Examiner Contributor In Steve Kim’s latest CD, he refers to his bass guitar as the main character in a set of music that ranges from jazz cover songs to classical. “The Book of Changes” was a self-produced project by Kim under his company name “Kimpossibilities,” released in 2005. “It’s like an art [...]
BY SUSAN KUNIMATSU Examiner Contributor For 40 years, Ron Ho has made necklaces, each an exquisite story in silver. A dragon boat bearing a palm tree and a portrait on a shard of pottery tells of a picture bride’s passage to a foreign land. A whimsical elephant with a load of carnelian beads is the [...]
BY BEN GARRISON UW News Lab Indonesia is the fourth most populous nation in the world, and the Seattle area boasts somewhere between 2,500 and 3,000 immigrants from there. However, in the entire Puget Sound area, there is only one Indonesian restaurant – Indo Café near Northgate mall. Owner Andry Sander considers it his job [...]
Ellen M. Abellera, executive director of Commission on Asia Pacific American Affairs, presented a list of local community projects that got funded in Governor Chris Gregoire’s 2007-09 biennium budget. Those projects include: • Asian Counselling & Referral Services: $3 million — funding for their new building in Rainier Valley • Korean Women’s Association: $1.5 million [...]
The new executive board for the India Association of Western Washington (IAWW) comprising 15 members was elected in its annual general body meeting in December, 2006. Debadutta Dash (known as Dash) was elected as the president of the association for the year 2007 along with Anjali Mathur as the vice president, Ponni Rajagopalan as the [...]
Mayor Greg Nickels announced on Dec. 27 the appointing of Ken Nakatsu as his new Chief of Department Operations. Nakatsu, who is currently director of the city’s Department of Executive Administration (DEA), will join the mayor’s staff this month, according to a press release. Nakatsu, a Seattle native, will take over the position from John [...]
BY PATRICK HURLEY Special to the Examiner Due to the recent crackdown on illegal foreign nationals living and working in the United States, it is important for you, whether you are a citizen or non-citizen, to understand your rights when you are contacted by immigration agents or police officers. It is essential to know what [...]
Dear Editor, I knew that I was vehemently opposed to this exhibit (“‘Bodies’: Edu-tainment for the Masses,” Dec. 6-19, 2006) and the level of disrespect that it shows for those whose bodies are on display. I knew also that there was a good chance that they are the bodies of those who had cultural or [...]
BY NHIEN NGUYEN Examiner Editor Within Seattle’s Asian Pacific American community, the tragic loss of a bright young leader, Tatsuo Nakata, 29, who was hit by a car while crossing the street in West Seattle in November last year, continues to stab at the heart of community members who were close to him or who [...]
BY KEN MOCHIZUKI Examiner Assistant Editor Washington State Sen. Paull Shin, D-Edmonds, named chairman of the newly formed Senate Higher Education Committee last month, said education is the “equalizer of all issues.” Shin knows the value of education. Born Ho Bom Shin in World War II-era Korea, his mother died when he was 4 and [...]
BY KEN MOCHIZUKI Examiner Assistant Editor When serving as an intern with the Snohomish County Republican Party during the early ‘90s, Steve Hobbs remembered one of the reasons why he became disenchanted with the GOP: then-Vice President Dan Quayle criticized “Murphy Brown,” the popular television character played by Candice Bergen, as an unfit role model [...]
