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Stella Chien — 2013 Visionary Award Recipient

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This October, the Northwest Asian Weekly presents the Visionary Awards Gala, an event honoring visionaries in the APA community. By Nina Huang Northwest Asian Weekly The completion of the Seattle […]

Asian America at Bumbershoot

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By Charles Lam Northwest Asian Weekly This year’s Bumbershoot, scheduled to take place Labor Day Weekend (Aug. 31 – Sept 2) at the Seattle Center, is set to be one […]

Living his dream, Japanese American singer makes screen debut

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By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly I met Tomo Nakayama shortly after 9/11 at Seattle’s Varsity Theatre where I was reviewing a movie and he was letting the critics in. […]

A-pop! Heroes and villains — Racists think they’re not racist, and Asian heroes make their debut

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By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly From racist music videos to Asian superheroes, July was an interesting month for Asians and pop culture. And by “interesting,” I mean equal parts […]

Robots on the ‘Pacific Rim’

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By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Giant monsters. Giant robots. Giant monsters fighting giant robots. If the underlying principles of “Pacific Rim” sound familiar to you from Japanese anime, film, […]

Asian America at the Capitol Hill Block Party

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By Charles Lam Northwest Asian Weekly Each year in July, the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce closes off a portion of the neighborhood to host the Capitol Hill Block Party, […]

A-pop! Out of school and on the silver screen — From Seattle and beyond

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By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly The heat is rising in Seattle as summer finally makes an appearance in the city! And as temperatures are soaring high, so too are […]

Wong debuts ‘Letters to You’

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By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly “Music is where my heart is,” said Seattle-based Rachel Wong. This summer, the 25-year-old Chinese-American singer-songwriter is releasing her sophomore album, “Letters to You,” […]

Dumbfoundead’s new web series runs the ‘DMZ’

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By Charles Lam Northwest Asian Weekly LA-based rapper Jonathan Park, better known by his stage name Dumbfoundead, has spent the majority of 2013 touring across the United States and Europe, […]