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Musical nonprofit Totem Star helps keep heritage alive at King Street Station arts hub

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Even though Daniel Pak started “kicking to the beat of the drum” at a jazz club in Honolulu, Hawai’i, while still in his mother’s womb, it wasn’t until middle school, when he picked up the acoustic guitar, that music clicked for Pak as a transformative medium.

Susan Tate Ankeny’s ‘American Flygirl’ chronicles the life of the first Asian American woman pilot

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When Susan Tate Ankeny was asked to write a book about Hazel Ying Lee (1912-44), it was because the publishing company was looking for someone to tell Lee’s story, and they liked Ankeny’s style of writing in her debut book—narrative fiction that reads like fiction.