By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly Welcome to another edition of The Layup Drill. As the summer continues, we write about two up-and-coming athletes, as well as looking at a racial incident at a local event. Sports and racism Yushin Okami is an experienced mixed martial artist. Unfortunately, the rough and tumble world of combat […]
The complicated lives of API females
By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Heroine Worship By Sarah Kuhn DAW Books Inc., 2017 Aveda Jupiter (also known as Annie Chang) had been the one to protect San Francisco from demons for a long time. But after being sidelined by an injury and watching her best friend and former assistant Evie Tanaka take her […]
BLOG: Want to visit Buckingham Palace? It’s easy.
By Assunta Ng NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Imagine yourself walking through the Ambassadors’ Entrance, the main entrance of Buckingham Palace, standing in line for the red-carpeted Grand Staircase and admiring Queen Elizabeth’s gifts. Except I wasn’t imagining. I was there a few days ago, and even dined at the Queen’s garden. You might think I have […]
BLOG: What strangers think about Seattle
By Assunta Ng NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Whenever I travel overseas, I found that foreigners and even some Americans don’t seem to think much about Seattle. I could be biased, but there is no other place I would rather live. They think Seattle is insignificant and unexciting, despite the growth of the city that has skyrocketed […]
BLOG: Can you not take yourself too seriously?
By Assunta Ng NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY How many times do you laugh a day? Studies have found that children laugh at least a few hundred times a day, and adults about 30. You know why? As adults, we can get tense, angry, anxious, and sad easily without logical reasons at times. We take things too […]
A-pop! Jackie Chan is Vietnamese now. JK, he wishes.
By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly This month, Asians continue doing what they’re good at, such as getting signed by Jay-Z and saying no thanks to more money. Jay-Z signs Jay Park Jay-Z’s label, Roc Nation, has signed Korean pop artist Jay Park, a record producer and rapper himself, as well as dancer and former […]
BLOG: Even after 22 years, lots of lessons to learn from NWAW’s Summer Youth Leadership Program
By Assunta Ng Northwest Asian Weekly Since 1995, the Northwest Asian Weekly has been organizing its Summer Youth Leadership Program (SYLP), aimed at empowering Asian American high school students. The three-week-all-expenses-paid program is designed to teach Asian youth leadership, identity, and community-building skills. This year, high school students from all over the Puget Sound area […]
NWAW’s July book recs — Books on deeper truths that you should read
By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly “Starry River of the Sky” By Grace Lin Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2012 The moon has gone missing, but the only person in the remote Village of Clear Sky who has seemed to notice is its newest resident, a young boy named Rendi. A runaway who now […]
BLOG: 2017 is a year of awakening for Asian Americans
By Assunta Ng Northwest Asian Weekly Six months ago, I said, “Seattle’s 2017 election sucks!” How wrong I was! What seemed to be a dull and highly predictable election has now transformed to be a colorful and uncertain one, not only for the city, but also other parts of King County. The number of Asian […]
BLOG: What do Trump and the Chinese community have in common?
By Assunta Ng NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY What’s in a name? “People’s” is the difference between China and Taiwan’s official name. The official name for China is the People’s Republic of China, and the official name for Taiwan is Republic of China. If you omit “People’s” when addressing China, it could lead to protest, mistrust, and […]
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