Highlights Noted modern composer and Seattle native Paul Chihara will return to town to witness the performance of his new piano quintet, “La Foce” on Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m. at UW’s Brechemin Auditorium as part of the “East-West Piano Arts Series” coordinated by Regina Yeh. Zhou Long and Bright Sheng are some of the [...]
BY CHIZU OMORI Examiner Contributor Film lovers in the Seattle area are blessed to have the Northwest Film Forum here on Capitol Hill, where you’ll find movies that won’t be shown anywhere else. One emphasis has been classic Japanese films, and in the last few years, Film Forum has presented a samurai festival, a Yasujiro [...]
BY ALAN LAU Examiner Arts Editor It’s 1:30 in the morning, and I’m starring at a framed photo of four Japanese Americans in suits with an elegant, elderly woman with a quizzical look on her face, holding a cat in her lap. Behind them on the wall are abstract paintings of shapes and forms, each [...]
BY PAUL MORI Examiner Contributor The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) in Los Angeles is now offering an extraordinary opportunity to view the rarely seen and nearly forgotten internment photographs of one of America’s most famous photographers, Ansel Adams. Curator Anne Hammond, photo historian and author of “Ansel Adams: Divine Performance,” has selected 50 original, [...]
BY NHIEN NGUYEN Examiner Editor In Bich Minh Nguyen’s debut memoir, “Stealing Buddha’s Dinner,” the author recalls one of her first Tet celebrations at school in Grand Rapids, Mich. when she was about eight years old. Her grandmother sewed matching ao dais for her and her sister “out of a silky red fabric and white [...]
BY KEN MOCHIZUKI Examiner Assistant Editor Maynard Avenue is going green. At a community meeting on Jan. 25, a group of community activists, University of Washington instructors and students and landscape designers provided an update on the “Maynard Avenue Green Street Project.” The Project will convert the block-long road beginning at South Jackson Street and [...]
BY CARMELA LIM Examiner Staff From the building faÁade to its dining interior, China Gate Restaurant exudes antiquity. Fitting for its name, China Gate’s high red front wall resembles that of an ancient Chinese castle. The restaurant, built in the 1920s, is regarded as one of the ID’s historic buildings. It’s a landmark you cannot [...]
BY PATRICK HURLEY Special to the Examiner Recent workplace raids and arrests of undocumented workers by Immigration and Customs Enforcement should serve as yet another reminder to all employers to ensure that their hiring and record-keeping practices comply with immigration laws. What are the penalties for employing undocumented workers? The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control [...]
Story by KEN MOCHIZUKI Examiner Assistant Editor Over 100 listeners of all ages gathered to hear a speech from 1st Lt. Ehren Watada at the Blaine Memorial United Methodist Church in Seattle on Jan. 25. The general court martial of Lt. Watada began on Feb. 5. He is charged with refusing to be deployed to [...]
BY KEN MOCHIZUKI Examiner Assistant Editor The City of Seattle is currently soliciting Requests for Proposals (RFP) for a developer to renovate the now-empty former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and Assay Office Building at 815 Airport Way South on the southwestern corner of the International District. According to a statement issued by the City [...]
The Puget Sound Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure awarded over $1.7 million in grants to 22 Western Washington organizations that deliver breast health outreach, cancer screening, treatment and support services.†The purpose of the local grant recipient program is to encourage eligible Western Washington healthcare institutions and community-based organizations to develop breast-cancer [...]
BY NHIEN NGUYEN Examiner Editor This year’s Asian Pacific American Legislative Day falls on Tuesday, Feb. 13, the day before Valentine’s, when love and compassion is in the air. Compassion for immigrants and refugees, among other disadvantaged groups, will be called upon from the governor and state legislators during this 2007 legislative session in which [...]
BY NHIEN NGUYEN Examiner Editor The Year of the Pig 2007 promises to be a prosperous year, including predictions of a general increase in standards of living. However, anti-immigrant sentiments on the federal level are making it harder for new Americans to become naturalized citizens, threatening to break the piggy banks of many foreign-born residents [...]
