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J-pop stars ARASHI release English surprise before hiatus

September 30, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Japanese pop sensation ARASHI has a big surprise for fans as they near their planned hiatus at year’s end: a collaboration with Bruno Mars on their first all-English single.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment Tagged With: VOL 39 NO 40 | OCTOBER 3 - OCTOBER 9

Finding Mana

September 16, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The ti leaf is dark green and glossy. Using her hands, Kalei’okalani Matsui deftly weaves, folds, shapes and bends the leaves into a rope, adding more leaves to elongate the lei. Her fingers move quickly, bracelets clinking gently around her wrists from the movement of well practiced wilii, the technique of twisting and weaving together lei.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Feature stories Tagged With: VOL 39 NO 38 | SEPTEMBER 19 - SEPTEMBER 25

Man turns trauma into messages of love

September 9, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY He was forced into making drugs. He was forced into selling drugs. He was forced into sexual slavery as a small child. He grew up through horrors many people couldn’t conceive of. Maikaru Douangluxay-Cloud, sometimes known as Michael, allows all the above. It’s all part of his story. But […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Feature stories Tagged With: VOL 39 NO 37 | SEPTEMBER 12 - SEPTEMBER 18

Disney’s live action Mulan: A tribute to the legend and prior versions

September 9, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Kai Curry Northwest Asian Weekly At long last, the new live action version of Disney’s Mulan has been released, after multiple delays due to COVID-19, not in theaters in the United States, but on Disney Plus as of Sept. 4. The movie, which is the largest budget Hollywood film ever with an Asian cast […]

Filed Under: At the Movies, Feature stories Tagged With: VOL 39 NO 37 | SEPTEMBER 12 - SEPTEMBER 18

Bill and Ted are two unremarkable middle aged white guys and that’s okay!

September 3, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Dude, I’m gonna cut right to the chase. You will like this movie if you are:
A true fan of Keanu Reeves. I don’t mean “John Wick” Keanu. I mean “Point Break” Keanu. I’m talking “Dangerous Liaisons” Keanu.

Filed Under: At the Movies, Feature stories Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 36 | SEPTEMBER 5 - SEPTEMBER 11

Local artist, Patti Warashina, becomes first ceramic artist to receive 2020 Smithsonian Visionary Award

September 3, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

At 80, Patti Warashina has accomplished a lot and received many prestigious awards in her distinguished art career, but her latest achievement was the 2020 Visionary Award from the Smithsonian Institute. And, this is the first time it’s been awarded to a ceramic artist.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Feature stories Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 36 | SEPTEMBER 5 - SEPTEMBER 11

Netflix’s “Away” promotes diversity and working together to save the planet by leaving it

September 3, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Beginning Sept. 4, we are going to Mars, again, or trying to, via the new Netflix series, “Away.”

Filed Under: At the Movies, Feature stories Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 36 | SEPTEMBER 5 - SEPTEMBER 11

Asian American girls saw pivotal icon in ‘Baby-Sitters Club’

July 16, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Author Ann M. Martin had no master plan when she decided to make one of the core members of “The Baby-Sitters Club’’ a Japanese American girl named Claudia.

Filed Under: At the Movies, Feature stories Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 29 | JULY 18 - JULY 24

Hirokazu Kore-eda, Catherine Deneuve look for ‘The Truth’

July 9, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Catherine Deneuve plays an icon of French cinema in “The Truth.’’ She even chose her own middle name, Fabienne, for her character who says things like, “I’d rather have been a bad friend and a bad mother and a great actress.’’

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Feature stories Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 28 | JULY 11 - JULY 17

Asia Talks series highlights artists’ ways of coping with past and present moments

July 2, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

They say that art imitates life. Yet it does more than that. Art explains life, and art helps us understand our lives.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Features, Community News, Feature stories Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 27 | JULY 4 – JULY 10

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