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Poet Nellie Wong serves up sustenance and struggle

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By Signe Predmore Northwest Asian Weekly If there’s one thing that Oakland-based poet Nellie Wong wants to make clear, it’s that she’s no Amy Tan.

At the “Mekong Hotel”

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By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly “All characters appearing in this work are actual persons,” warns the fine print at the end of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s new film, “Mekong Hotel.” “Any […]

Psy’s Gangnam Style becomes most viewed video on YouTube ever

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By Andrew Lam New America Media Anthropologists and linguists are no doubt having a field day trying to chronicle and dissect how,

“Shin Joong Hyun & Yup Juns”

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By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Although he remains almost unknown to American audiences, Shin Joong Hyun achieved legendary status long ago in his native South Korea. Now, his music […]

Women take over: Northwest Asian Artists at SAM

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By Deanna Duff Northwest Asian Weekly Women have taken over the Seattle Art Museum. Not through protests or demonstrations, but with a different type of exciting,

“The Man with the Iron Fists”

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By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Hip hop artist Robert Diggs, better known by his stage name RZA, grew up watching Chinese-language kung fu

A-pop! The New Bond Girl

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A monthly column about all things Asian in popular culture By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly With November underway and Halloween behind us, I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday and […]

By Rama’s bow

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By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly  “Ramayana,” A Contemporary Theatre’s adaptation of the Indian epic going back almost 2,000 years, runs roughly three hours, including intermissions. It tells a story […]