By Andrew Hamlin NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY When she first moved to New York City to pursue acting and comedy, Ana Parsons’ family, she remembered, thought she was “cray-cray.” They wanted […]
New “He-Man” film brings diverse actors to its “Universe”
The paths to acting onscreen run diverse and multifarious. Just ask two of the leading performers in the new movie, “Masters of the Universe,” the latest re-launch of the sprawling fantasy series dating back to 1982.
Diwa Festival connects Filipinos the wide world over
For those who don’t remember video stores—they once existed, and they once linked movie lovers to films not in first-run theatres, when that was otherwise almost impossible.
‘American Peril’ connects today’s anti-Asian climate to America’s past
It’s difficult to look back at the first half of the 2020s without wincing.
Author Curtis Chin shares his philosophy towards community and change for Asian Americans
Curtis Chin sees the glass as half full.
Decades after her passing, Hazel Ying Lee still won’t take “no” for an answer
The first picture Susan Tate Ankeny saw of Hazel Ying Lee was of Lee “dressed all in flight garb, and her goggles, and she’s holding a cigarette, and she just looks badass.”
xispa, a new art lab in Seattle, intends to bring together art and technology in exciting ways
What would it be like if artists had more of a say in new technology?
Seattle’s Asian American alternative music scene finds its voice
When Seattle musician Jeseul Oh was searching for a name for his band, he kept returning to one song: “Plash,” by Japanese artist Takako Minekawa.
Seattle’s literary translators are fighting to hear the voices of Indonesian writers
Writer and translator Tiffany Tsao felt a hum of excitement around Indonesian literature when she started translating Indonesian writing for English-speaking audiences in 2015.
The “Everybody” play scrambles roles, for revelation
Mounting a stage show, where five actors draw lots at the start of every show to determine who plays what, sounds intimidating.