Highlights The Tokyo-based dance troupe Pappa Tarahumara takes on the Chekhov classic, “Three Sisters” Jan. 31 – Feb. 4 at 8 p.m. at On The Boards. Contemporary twists include a meditation on female identity, coming of age and obsession with youth culture. University of Washington professor and author Sasha Su-Ling Welland will give a free [...]
BY NALINI IYER Examiner Contributor Vikram Chandra’s third book, “Sacred Games,” establishes him as a writer to reckon with. Chandra, who divides his time between the United States and India, is the author of two previous books, “Red Earth and Pouring Rain” (a novel) and “Love and Longing in Bombay” (a short story collection). He [...]
BY CLAIRE EMIKO FANT Examiner Contributor For his first solo show in the United States, Korean artist Jun Kyu Lee has created paintings that explore the subconscious as it relates to his experience of separation from the familiar and the self-reflection that ensues. Entitled “The Border of Reality and Illusion,” Lee seeks to define the [...]
BY BYRON AU YONG Examiner Contributor “By holding our festival in January, we can cherry-pick films from other festivals,” explains director Wes Kim. It’s a Sunday morning two-and-a-half weeks before the 2007 Northwest Asian American Film Festival (NWAAFF). I sit with Kim in a local caf». He wears glasses and a baseball cap. While eating [...]
BY CHIZU OMORI Examiner Contributor We’re in for an unusual treat on Jan. 19 & 20 at the Northwest Film Forum when Aono Jikken, Seattle’s music performance group, presents “To Sleep So As To Dream,” a 1986 Japanese black-and-white film written and directed by Kaizo Hayashi. Their specially-composed score will be played live accompanying this [...]
BY CHIZU OMORI Examiner Contributor What is it about Clint Eastwood? Everybody knows him — “Dirty Harry,” the cowboy in the spaghetti Westerns, the deliciously handsome, cool character in dozens of films — but his career as a filmmaker in his middle and later years puts him in the ranks of a world-class director/producer. Yet, [...]
BY KIKI YEUNG Examiner Contributor On a Thursday night, a few friends and I stopped by Qube for dinner. Walking into Qube, you feel chic. The green lights and walls, accented by the orange centerpiece (which is supposed to look like fire), makes you feel like you are somewhere outside of Seattle. With all the [...]
BY ARLA SHEPHARD Examiner Contributor How many people are familiar with Krishna Bhanji? Issur Danielovitch Demsky? Ramon Estevez? No? How about their counterparts Ben Kingsley, Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen? These famous celebrities are real life examples of a phenomenon that Professor of Yale Law Kenji Yoshino describes as “covering.” Yoshino gave a speech at [...]
The Asian Counseling and Referral Service (ACRS) Food Bank, located at 919 S. King St., was burglarized between the evening of Dec. 21 and the morning of Dec. 27, and also during the evening of Dec. 28, 2006. Thieves cut into a fence and broke into a window. They emptied two freezer chests full of [...]
BY KEN MOCHIZUKI Examiner Assistant Editor Susan Chin said of her herb doctor and longtime family friend, Hen Sen Chin: “He was a great man and a great Chinese herbalist. His passing is a great loss for the International District and a great loss for his many patients locally, nationally and internationally. Patients would fly [...]
Tay Yoshitani, former executive director of the Port of Oakland, the Port of Baltimore and the Maryland Port Commission, was chosen earlier this month to become CEO of the Port of Seattle. Yoshitani, 60, has experience in seaport and airport operations and real estate development. He replaces retiring Port of Seattle CEO Mic Dinsmore. Yoshitani [...]
Mayor Greg Nickels on Jan. 4 announced city support for four new affordable housing projects, according to a press release. The $6.7 million will help create affordable homeownership opportunities; a supportive housing development for chronically homeless people in North Seattle; and two mixed-income family housing developments in South Seattle. The family housing will primarily serve [...]
BY BOB SANTOS AND ELAINE KO Inter*Im As Inter*Im’s executive directors (both former and current), we cannot allow Tomio Moriguchi to quietly step down from Inter*Im’s board without public acknowledgment of a phenomenal 37-year commitment to our organization and the community. Tomio doesn’t call attention to all his contributions. There are many stories to tell [...]
Dear Editor: I read your column “Immigration Matters – Know your rights” (Jan. 3 – 16 issue) and am truly offended by it. It seems [to] me that any legal, law abiding citizen has an obligation to be honest, forthright and helpful to authorities. Why would anyone in this country legally, who is not a [...]
BY NHIEN NGUYEN Examiner Editor When you meet Pee Dee Hswe, the father of one of the first Karen refugee families in Seattle, the first thing that strikes you is his warm, brilliant smile. Behind this smile are years of living in fear of persecution from the Burmese military regime, surviving the squalor of a [...]
BY NHIEN NGUYEN Examiner Editor For 10 years, Pee Dee Hswe languished in the cramped quarters of Thailand’s Tham Hin refugee camp, longing for the day that he and his family could return to his slash-and-burn farming lifestyle in the country he was raised — Burma, also known as Myanmar. That wish continues this winter, [...]
BY KEN MOCHIZUKI Examiner Assistant Editor International Examiner: What is your current assignment at Fort Lewis? Watada: My current assignment is serving on the main base which is I Corps or 1st Corps. There’s no other way to put it – it’s an administrative position. I help out in any way I can, and I [...]
