Seattle’s Chinatown/International district has existed for over 100 years. Tacoma, too, once had a Chinatown. The need for cheap railroad laborers led to Chinese immigrants settling in Tacoma in the mid-1880s. Because of prejudice, the Chinese were segregated to the area surrounding the Northern Pacific Railroad Company’s main station, near what is now Opera Alley. [...]
On Wed., Nov. 11, Veteran’s Day, dozens of business owners, residents, and community advocates from Pioneer Square and the Chinatown/International District gathered for a town hall meeting at the Panama Hotel Cafe and Teahouse to discuss how they can collectively and in partnership, benefit from funds awarded by the state legislature to promote the economic [...]
Highlights The First Annual Slack Key Festival takes place on Nov. 22 at Town Hall from 2 – 6 p.m. With concerts and workshops from Hawaiian music masters and Ukulele virtuosos including Cyril Pahanui, Leabert Lindsay, Sonny Lim, David Kamakahi, Kunai Galdeira, Makana Donald Kaulia and Jeff Peterson. There will be an Evening Dinner/Heavy Pupu [...]
It was before my time, but there are stories passed down from elders, historians, and episodes of “The Wonder Years” that tell of a time long past when people cared about what was going on in the world. It’s a remarkable, almost miraculous phenomenon to us now. We look at the Civil Rights Movement as [...]
Originally this article was going to showcase the Top 10 API-run green energy companies of Seattle. Then it became Top 8. Then 5. Then it became about how hard it is to find an API-run green company. With recent national efforts to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, the liberal Northwest is a prime candidate [...]
The journey a refugee takes is, at best, challenging: leaving home and loved ones behind, surviving war or political turmoil, living in a refugee camp for an uncertain period of time, and eventually ending up in an unfamiliar place and having to learn an entirely new language and culture. It must be impossibly hard when [...]
If the thought of holiday gift giving stresses you out, fear not. No matter whom you need to please—a family member, friend, significant other, boss, co-worker, neighbor, mail carrier, or the cashier at your favorite grocery store—there’s something for everybody. Even if you have restrictions like no budget or a special place in your heart [...]
OVERPROTECTIVE Designed to protect your iPod but not limited to this function, it features durability, strength, and the infamous feel and look that has made the Pelican brand world-famous. Available colors include a few to match iPod shades. Pelican’s i1010 and i1030 iPod Cases – $24.78 www.cableorganizer.com ‘WOKING’ HARD Remember the television show “Yan Can [...]
NECESSITIES – www.allgifts.org Alternative Gifts International allows you to choose among charities for sponsorship. Some help prevent communicable diseases among orphans in Vietnam while others provide clean water for a school in India. For $35, you can buy food for a family of six for a week in Baghdad. HABITAT FOR HUMANITY – www.habitat.org For $10, [...]
Tee-ing Off! If you know a business owner, blank eco t-shirts that can be printed with their logo makes a great gift. At a few dollars per shirt with a minimum order and set-up fee, this present is pricey but useful. You can also order eco key chains, stickers, and other promotional items for your [...]
Not many underground artists can say that they’ve been there and back by choice—“there” meaning a deal with a major recording label, and “back” as in relying on themselves for financing. But the lack of professionalism and creative freedom forced Clockwork, a local hip-hip group, to break away from DreamWorks Records just months before the [...]
Crossover is nothing new to Seattle either because its neighborhoods interact and co-mingle. Ethnicities, races and religions mix with each other in order to learn and share. In Seattle, hip hop is absorbed and enjoyed by so many people, regardless of traditional barriers, that it appears to be speaking many meta-languages which each individual understands [...]
For Bret Nielsen, executive producer and owner of Fueled Creative, all he needed was a spark—to defy the odds, grow, succeed, and in turn, give back. Fifteen years ago, Nielsen was used to being in the forefront as he raced motorcycles semi-professionally. At the precipice of making a name for himself, he suffered an injury [...]
ARTIST: JEFFREY “JFK” BAUTISTA Seattle rapper Jeffrey Bautista is slowly gaining notoriety in the underground scene as a raw, gritty artist who raps about those marginalized in the Asian American community. Having grown up in the troubled parts of Virginia Beach, Virginia, Bautista recalls how gangs influenced his life as an adolescent. “We thought we [...]
