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Love “In the Family”

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By Andrew Hamlin NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY “In the Family,” Patrick Wang’s first feature film as writer and director, opens with a quiet scene of a family preparing for breakfast. The […]

A-pop! Back to School Edition

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All things Asian in popular culture By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly It’s the ubiquitous question on everyone’s lips on the first day of school, “How did you spend your […]

“Johsel Namkung: A Retrospective” on art

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By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Johsel Namkung, Korean by birth, is a singer and translator. He arrived in Seattle on Oct. 24, 1947, at age 28, with his Japanese […]

“Uncle Ho to Uncle Sam” inspires

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By Jocelyn Chui Northwest Asian Weekly Before actor Trieu Tran turned his personal story into a play, it was hard to imagine the torment Vietnamese immigrants had to

Telling a “Tokyo Story”

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By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly When the British Film Institute’s prestigious monthly magazine Sight & Sound published the new results of its once-a-decade poll for the title of greatest […]

Son reads dead father’s diary at Writers Read event

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By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Though Kamekicha Tokita has been dead since 1948, his work took center stage at the latest

Seattle Opera: An artistic marriage between East and West, part 2 of 2

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Opera is changing in China and the Seattle Opera is helping contribute to its future …

A-pop! Controversy abound: plastic beauty queens and R-E-S-P-E-C-T for Pinkberry mogul

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All things Asian in popular culture! By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Do you hear that sizzle? No, it’s not the sound of an egg cooking on the sidewalk, as […]

Seattle Opera marries artistic visions of East and West — Part 1 of a 2 part series: Behind the scenes of Turandot

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By Samantha Test Northwest Asian Weekly Seattle’s latest opera, “Turandot,” is a love story.