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You are here: Home / Archives for Vol 30 No 34 | August 20 – August 26

Getty to save ID businesses?

August 18, 2011 By Stacy Nguyen

By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly When Amazon.com moved its offices from the International District (ID) above Union Station to a building in Lake Union, Tom Dang felt the sting of empty chairs.<!–more–> “It was really down, for maybe, I would say, three months. Business was down about 40 percent.” Dang owns Sub Sand, a […]

Filed Under: Business, Community News Tagged With: 2011, CIDBIA, Cobalt Group, Getty Images, International District, Jesse Ottele, Lake Union, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle, Seventh Avenue, South Downtown, Stacy Nguyen, Sub Sand, Tom Dang, Union Station, Vietnamese, Vol 30 No 34 | August 20 - August 26

Yola Lu says she’s not the next Margaret Cho (but still hilarious)

August 18, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Nina Huang Northwest Asian Weekly She’s real. She’s funny. And she’s not trying to be the next Margaret Cho. Taiwanese American Yola Lu is a University of Washington graduate, a vegetarian, and probably one of the very few Asian Americans who aren’t pursuing their college degree to start a career. As Yola started going […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Profiles Tagged With: 2011, Ali Wong, Asian Americans, Aziz Ansari, Catch Lu, Comedy Underground, David Fung, Jackie Robinson, Nina Huang, Northwest Asian Weekly, Polly Hoang, Seattle, UW, Vol 30 No 34 | August 20 - August 26, Yola Lu, margaret cho

The Results — APIAs in the primaries

August 18, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Staff Northwest Asian Weekly Could last Tuesday’s election be a sign of things to come in November? Though we did see some Asian and Pacific Islander Americans (APIA) advance to the general election, the percentage of the vote APIA candidates garnered could mean that there is a tough road ahead for all of the […]

Filed Under: Features, Community News Tagged With: 2011, APIA, Betsy Elgar, Diana Toledo, Francisco Irigon, Northwest Asian Weekly, Patsy Bonincontri, Pierce Counties, Ruth Sanoy, Therese Ngo Pasquier, Vol 30 No 34 | August 20 - August 26

Sheila Burrus: a leader who helps Filipino community

August 18, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Cheih-hsin “Jessie” Lin UW News Lab Sheila Burrus and her family arrived in Washington state from Batangas, Philippines, in 1990. She first attended De La Salle, Lipa, and the University of St. Thomas in Philippines. She finished her degree in nursing in Georgia after coming to the United States. After realizing that nursing wasn’t […]

Filed Under: Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2009, 2011, Celebrate Asia!, Cheih-hsin Lin, De La Salle, Dori Fajardo, Filipino Community, Georgia, Jeffrey Taylor, Philippines, San Francisco, Seattle Public Schools, Sheila Burrus, State Farm Insurance Co, United States, Vol 30 No 34 | August 20 - August 26, communication

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