The International Examiner

A comprehensive list of Arts Events happening around Seattle. Updated August 4th 2010.

I am sitting at an internet cafe in San Cristobal, Chiapas, scratching my toes from numerous ant bites and typing these words while trying to navigate the Mexican keyboard. Please excuse in advance the terrible punctuation (I cant find the apostrophe key! But look, heres this cool upside down exclamation point, which lets me say [...]

Parking. There is no other topic in the International District that is wrought with so many myths and misconceptions. Parking is not a problem. But it seems that everything else associated with parking in the neighborhood is a problem. Unless there is a Safeco or Qwest Field event that draws more than 35,000 people, one [...]

San Francisco could become the first city in the country to adopt green standards for its nail salons. It’s a move advocates hope will kick-start a movement toward greener and healthier products that has been stuck for years, despite a pioneering state law aimed at making cosmetics safer. A new ordinance, introduced by Board of [...]

Two men are dead and four injured from a barrage of gunshots fired around 9 p.m. at a party on July 17 at Lake Sammamish State Park in Issaquah, reported the Seattle Times. Yang Keovongphet, 33, of Kent, and Justin Cunningham, 30, of South Seattle, were killed that night when an altercation between two groups [...]

Bob Hasegawa Running for re-election: State Representative, 11th District, Position 2 Bob Hasegawa prioritizes family wage jobs, access to capital and protecting small businesses, basic and higher education, civil rights and social justice and equity of access to all society has to offer. With a background as a longtime labor and social justice activist, Hasegawa [...]

Immigration / Refugees Patty Murray – Murray supports comprehensive immigration reform and believes that it is the right thing to do for families, businesses and future generations. Immigration reform must “include a path for immigrants to become citizens and realize the American dream” and “protect the rights of victims and refugees,” she says. Dino Rossi [...]

The number of organic consumers has increased. Whether it’s from better education or higher health-consciousness, it’s a good sign. Going organic is a new food trend that consumers should consider carrying on. According to the website, www.organic.org, “organic” is defined as “produce and other ingredients grown without the use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, sewage sludge, [...]

On December 31, 2007, Seattle Parks bought property adjacent to Hing Hay Park to expand the current .33 acre park to .64 acres. The acquisition was made as a result of the Parks and Green Spaces Levy that was approved by voters in 2008. As part of an effort to “greenify” the neighborhoods in and [...]

Your vegetable and fruit consumption possibilities can be endless. Inside the produce aisles can lay rows of deep forest-green cucumbers or perfectly assembled round red skin tomatoes. In another market, carefully aligned Gai Lan (Chinese broccoli) are stacked into healthy green architecture and next to them can be the colorful mild and hot Japanese peppers [...]

They refer to themselves as informational technology communication providers, but for Victor Kao and Sam Kim, supporting the Asian American community by offering quality service, good rates and philanthropy means finding a deeper meaning in their work at Cbeyond. Cbeyond is a national company that specializes in providing general communication services to clients. There are [...]

The average Asian American woman could probably be stereotyped as quiet, passive and subservient. But recently, at the University of Washington, three Asian American women will break these stereotypes as they have been chosen to serve in prominent roles at the university. Frances J. Youn has been selected by Gov. Chris Gregoire as the student [...]

The Los Angeles Times reported that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger nominated 3rd District Court of Appeal Justice Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye as the next chief justice on July 28, which would make her the first Asian American to lead the state’s judiciary and give the California Supreme Court a female majority for the first time in its [...]

The Seattle Chapter of Ascend, a pan-Asian American professional leadership organization, will host the Diversity Career Expo and Appreciation Gala on September 2, 2010. Both events will be held in downtown Bellevue, Wash. at the Westin Hotel. Over 20 diversity employers are expected to exhibit and will be hiring for positions ranging from entry to [...]

Drop by the Takamura’s South Hill Renton home for dinner, and you’ll enjoy an epicurean feast of homegrown organic vegetables. For over 30 years, Frieda Takamura has been gardening the green way. Currently, her front yard is the site of a 16 by 16 foot plot. “We put the garden in the front yard,” she [...]

If you are, like me, a relative newcomer to science writing, then you may find Carol Kaesuk Yoon’s “Naming Nature” the perfect introduction to a genre that may at first seem suited for those more scientifically minded. Far from esoteric, Yoon makes accessible the highly technical nature of her subject matter by focusing squarely on [...]

Ghosts are everywhere. Maggie Lee’s play “Kindred Spirits” demonstrates that, for good or ill, memories and the past can often cling to us, and shape how we view the present. Likewise, this season-opening world premiere production by local theatre company ReAct illuminates how our needs in the present influence how we remember the past. Set [...]

The plain gray cardboard box with a dated design of Christmas ornaments belied the treasures within – a dozen or so exquisitely carved and painted birds in miniature, meticulous to the tiniest of feathers, all carved by my Japanese grandfather during his internment in the Arizona desert in WWII. My journey to Washington DC to [...]