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Say hello to Hello Kitty — EMP Museum pays homage to the supercute

November 20, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly It began with a coin purse. Hello Kitty, soon to conquer the world, made her debut on a tiny coin purse made from see-through plastic. The year was 1975. The “Hello! Exploring The Supercute World Of Hello Kitty” exhibit at the EMP Museum includes a replica of this coin […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles, Features, Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2015, Andrew Hamlin, Dave Marchi, EMP, Hello Kitty, Japanese American National Museum, Katy Perry, Kitty White, Lady Gaga, Northwest Asian Weekly, Olympics, Seattle Center, Sebastian Masuda, Taiwan, Tokyo, Vol 34 No 48 | November 21 - November 27

From Bellevue to Bangkok: UW alumni around the world

January 29, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Ana Mari Cauce Special to Northwest Asian Weekly Before my recent trip to Southeast Asia, I knew that the University of Washington (UW) <!–more–>was a global university. We are rated 15th among the world’s universities in Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s much publicized rankings, and 14th in the world in the US News and World […]

Filed Under: Features, Education, Travel, Community News Tagged With: 2013, 2015, Azita Emami, Best Global Universities, Chulalongkorn University, Direk Lavansiri, Early Buddhist Manuscript Project, El Salvador, Hello Kitty, Human Rights Center, Mahidol University, Rose Bowl, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Siam Cement Group, Somboon Chayavichitsilp, Southeast Asia, Thailand, UW, Vol 34 No 6 | January 31 - February 6, japan

COMMENTARY: The siren song of “Hello Kitty is not a cat”

September 5, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Tiffany Ran For Northwest Asian Weekly “Ceci n’est pas une pipe (This is not a pipe),” a cheeky statement made famous by Rene Magritte’s painting The Treachery of Images came to mind recently. But Magritte’s painting is of a pipe. It is very clearly a pipe, despite it saying otherwise. Mais non, argued Magritte, […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2014, Badtz Maru, Hello Kitty, Hello Kitty-gate, Japanese American National Museum, Kitty White, Los Angeles, Princess Jasmine, Rene Magritte, Vol 33 No 37 | September 6 - September 12, Washington Post, attention

COMMENTARY: Ask, don’t tell us who we are

August 1, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Tiffany Ran Northwest Asian Weekly When I tell people that I cook for a living, I get, on multiple occasions, “Do you make sushi?” or “Do you

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2014, Asian Americans, China, Chinese American, Dan Wu, Gordon Ramsey, Hello Kitty, Joe Bastianich, Northwest Asian Weekly, Olive Garden, SAT, Shin Ramyun, Spring Roll, Tiffany Ran, Vietnamese, Vol 33 No 32 | August 2 - August 8, letter

Runway ready: Japanese fashion at SAM

June 27, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Deanna Duff Northwest Asian Weekly For many people, back-to-school shopping was the last time they seriously considered how clothing impacts identity, but Seattle Art Museum’s newest exhibition may spur new thought.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Features, Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2013, Akiko Fukai, Body Meets Dress, Catharina Manchada, Dress Meets Body, Future Beauty, Hello Kitty, Issey Miyake, Junya Watanabe, KCI, Kosuke Tsumura, Kyoto Costume Institute, Merce Cunningham, Paris, Rei Kawakubo, Seattle Art Museum, Vol 32 No 27 | June 29 - July 5, Yohji Yamamoto

Father and kid bonding

June 17, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The weekend before Father’s Day, kids and their dads made the most of the good weather and hit the great outdoors. Some went running, some rode bikes,

Filed Under: Community News, Cultures Tagged With: 2010, Fifteen-year-old Clay, Hello Kitty, Nine-year-old Corina Dang, Six-year-old Sage Fontecchio, Three-year-old Aaron Chen, Three-year-old Anjali Kukreja, Vol 29 No 25 | June 19 - June 25, YMCA

‘Glamorous, elegant, timeless, revolutionary,’ pearls of wisdom from The Shanghai Pearl, burlesque dancer

April 22, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Jenny Ku’s apartment is cloaked in sequins, feathers, and fishnet stockings. Her laptop is red — a shade almost as bright as her lipstick — and so is her tea kettle, which brewed jasmine tea on one of spring’s sunnier days. But that doesn’t compare to the 17 pairs of peep-toe pumps peeking out from her rows of boas, dresses, and masks.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Profiles Tagged With: 2010, Asian Americans, Best Friend, Calamity Chang, Capitol Hill, El Gaucho, Hello Kitty, Indigo Blue, Isabel Chang, Jenny Ku, New Orleans, Northwest Asian Weekly, Taiwan, Vivian Luu, Vol 29 No 17 | April 24 - April 30, culture, women of color

Behind the Masks: For allergy season, Japan turns to surgical masks

May 2, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

TOKYO (AP) — Everybody, it seems, is wearing them. It is impossible to go anywhere in Japan this time of the year and not notice that the Japanese love surgical masks and wear them just about everywhere they go.

Filed Under: News, World News Tagged With: 2008, Hello Kitty, Kyle Cleveland, Mickey Mouse, TV, Temple University, Tokyo, Tom Lomax, Yano Research Institute, Yoko Tamura, culture, japan, vol 28 no 19 | May 2 - May 8

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