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Just beginning! — Emma Lee Toyoda is already making noise

March 20, 2015 By Andrew Hamlin Leave a Comment

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Local singer-songwriter Emma Lee Toyoda took a complex but rewarding path to musical autonomy, as she details below.  Toyoda recently took third place in the Experience Music Project’s “Sound Off!” competition for musicians under 21.  She answered some questions over email. NWAW:  Did you grow up in Seattle?  If […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2015, Aaron Carter, Adelyn Westerholm, Anna White, Bryan John Appleby, Buddhist Shambhala Center, Experience Music Project, Fleet Foxes, Hale Fest, Jim Morrison, John Rogers Elementary, Khyre Matthews, Lake City Sandpoint, NWAW, Salmon Bay Middle School, Sky Church, Sound Off Competition, Sufjan Stevens, Timber Outdoor Music Festival--so, Toyoda Born, Toyoda Sushi, Troy Nelson, Vocal Jazz, Vol 34 No 13 | March 21 - March 27, Western Washington University Earth Day Festival, Winters Chill, Zeke Bender

Climbing Heart Mountain — Documenting Japanese internment

March 13, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly The latest film to detail the Japanese-American experience in relocation camps during World War II, David Ono’s “The Legacy Of Heart Mountain” has a free screening this coming Sunday, March 15th, at the Nisei Veterans Committee Memorial Hall 1212 S. King Street in Seattle, from 1 to 3 pm. […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2015, Andrew Hamlin, Asian American Journalist Association, Bruce Inaba, David Ono, Emmy Awards, Heart Mountain War Relocation Center, Hirahara Collection, Japanese Americans, King Street, NVC, NWAW, Nisei Veterans Committee Memorial Hall, Northwest Asian Weekly, Pacific Islander Issues Television Online Award, RCT, Radio Television Digital News Association, Rainier Valley, Vol 34 No 12 | March 14 - March 20

Revisiting Taiwanese New Wave — Northwest Film Forum features retrospective of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s films

March 13, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Hou Hsiao-hsien, who’s been directing films since 1980, is considered one of the most prominent directors in the Taiwanese New Wave cinema movement.  The Northwest Film Forum, in collaboration with the Grand Illusion Cinema, presents a retrospective of the director’s work.  Northwest Film Forum programmer Courtney Sheehan took some […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2015, Andrew Hamlin, Austria, Brazil, Courtney Sheehan Hou Hsiao-hsien, Courtney Sheehan Seattle, Good Men, Good Women, Grand Illusion Cinema, NWAW, NWFF, Northwest Asian Weekly, Northwest Film Forum, Richard Suchenski, Taiwanese New Wave, Vol 34 No 12 | March 14 - March 20

Fists & Fury — Martial arts festival comes to the Cinerama

March 9, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly The Seattle Cinerama Theater, owned and operated by Paul Allen, presents its first-ever martial arts film festival, “Fists & Fury,” from February 27 to March 5th, featuring, amongst other attractions, several films from Seattle legend Bruce Lee.  Greg Wood, the Cinerama’s Director of Operations, took some questions over email. […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2009, 2015, Akira Kurosawa, Andrew Hamlin, Asian Pacific American Experience, Bruce Lee, Fist Fury, Fists Fury Martial, Greg Wood Although Cinerama, Greg Wood Twenty, Hong Kong Film Awards, Ip Man, Kung Fu Hustle, NWAW, Vol 34 No 10 | February 28 - March 6, language, technology

Glamorous! — Last flight out from Vietnam to first-class designer for Urban Outfitters

March 6, 2015 By Peggy Chapman Leave a Comment

By Peggy Chapman Northwest Asian Weekly Actually, Quoc Nguyen doesn’t think his job is that glamorous, even though his designs are popular and featured throughout the Urban Outfitters line.  (You can refer to the photo of the beautiful dress!) Quoc, (also known as “Larry”) described his history and his design process with the Northwest Asian […]

Filed Under: Fashion Tagged With: 2015, Creative Technical Design Director, Free People, Glamorous Last, HATE, Kansas City, NWAW, Next Top Model, North Texas, Northwest Asian Weekly, Peggy Chapman, Quoc It, Quoc Nguyen, Quoc One, Quoc Yes, Urban Outfitters, Vietnam, Vol 34 No 13 | March 21 - March 27, Zooey Deschanel

Seattle Symphony celebrates Asia

February 19, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly The Seattle Symphony’s “Celebrate Asia” Concert, upcoming Sunday, March 1, features guest conductor Carolyn Kuan. Amongst other pieces, the symphony will be performing the U.S. premiere of “Revive,” a concerto for koto and shakuhachi written by Japanese composer Yugo Kanno.  Another prominent piece, “Xizi,” from Chinese composer Ye Yanchen, […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features Tagged With: 2015, Andrew Hamlin, Carolyn Kuan, Celebrate Asia Composition Competition, Celebrate Asia Concert, Celebrate Asia!, Chinese, Japanese Taiko, NWAW, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle Symphony, Taiwnese Aborigine, Vol 34 No 9 | February 21 - February 27, Ye Yanchen, Yoshi Minegishi, Yugo Kanno, attention

Learning in new languages — Dengue Fever: From Cambodia to the Triple Door

February 6, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Dengue Fever, a band well known for combining Cambodian pop with Western-style pop and rock, will be performing at Seattle’s Triple Door on Tuesday, Feb. 10th, They will be touring to support their new album “The Deepest Lake.”  Singer Chhom Nimol took some questions over e-mail.<!–more–> NWAW:  Where in Cambodia […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2015, Apsara Awards, Brazil, Chhom Nimol Cambodian, Dengue Fever, Dragon House, Khmer Rouge, Korean, Long Beach Community College, Mexico, NWAW, Phnom Penh, Poland, Siem Reap, Singer Chhom Nimol, Slovakia, Thailand, Vol 34 No 7 | February 7 - February 13

“Yellow Face” — A play builds student community

January 30, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Hot on the heels of last year’s “Mikado” controversy comes a University of Washington production of David Henry Hwang’s play “Yellow Face,” a study of racial and cultural issues surrounding Asian American theatre. The show runs from Jan. 27th to Feb. 1st at the Cabaret Theatre in the UW’s […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features Tagged With: 2015, Andrew Guy, Andrew Swann, Anna Saephan, Assistant Director Jasmine Paik, Cabaret Theatre, Cameron Macintosh, David Henry Hwang, Gabi Boettner, Hutchinson Hall, Jane Krakowski, Jasmine Paik Elizabeth Wu, Jasmine Paik Hopefully, Jasmine Paik Mikko Juan, Jessica Stephens, Kayla Dresse, Marcus Gee, Megan Brewer, NWAW, Peter Sakowicz, Rhoya Seldon, Sandra Bobman, Season Qiu, Simon Tran, UW, Vol 34 No 6 | January 31 - February 6, Yellow Face, margaret cho

Insatiable! — A festival of Asian American writing talent

January 23, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Seattle’s Sister (SIS) Productions presents “Insatiable!” a festival of

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2015, Asian Americans, Celese Mari Williams, Celeste Mari Williams, Chinatown, David Henry Hwang, Kathy Hsieh Plays, Literary Manager, Live Girls Theater, Maggie Lee, NWAW, Northwest Asian American Theatre, Pocket Theater, Roger Tang, SIS, Seayoung Yim, Sex in Seattle, Vol 34 No 5 | January 24 - January 30

Another list! — NWAW’s most-read stories of 2014…according to Google Analytics

January 8, 2015 By Assunta Ng Leave a Comment

BLOG: What SeaTac tells us about $15 minimum wage Posted on 22 May 2014. By Assunta Ng “Are you happy with the $15 wage?” I asked the full-time cleaning lady. “It sounds good, but it’s not good,” the woman said. “Why?” I asked. “I lost my 401k, health insurance, paid holiday, and vacation,” she responded. […]

Filed Under: Features, Community News Tagged With: 2015, Asian American Washington State Supreme Court Justice, Bruce Lee, Dinosaur Samu, Filipina Zelda Williams, Fred Cordova, Google Analytics, Japan League, King County Superior Court Judge Mary Yu, Mulvanny G2, NWAW, Osamu Abe, Seattle, Thomasdinh Dinh Bowman, Vera Faye Ing, Vol 34 No 3 | January 10 - January 16, Yancy Noll, blog, social media

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