Michael Parham—appointed by President Joe Biden earlier this year to the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts— was invited to attend the Kennedy Center Honors this year.
Simu Liu on The Simpsons
Actor Simu Liu, known for his leading role in Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” recently played a crazy, rich Asian.
Past and present mingle as Vietnamese refugee helps a Ukrainian family
Memory knows before forgetting endures, sees, hears, feels the sway of the boat, the flaccid scent of 275 bodies packed like cordwood, knows a destination where they ate leaves and tiny crabs for a year until they came to the U.S.
$1 million in Comcast RISE grants to small businesses
Comcast said it will award $1 million in total grants to 100 small businesses in King and Pierce Counties as well as 128 small businesses in Washington state, which were selected to receive technology and marketing services from Comcast RISE.
Chang could be ousted over Brooklyn residency
In an election in which Republicans underperformed nationally, Lester Chang was a success story. He beat a New York City Democrat who’d been in office for almost 36 years, and in doing so became the first Asian American elected to represent Brooklyn’s growing Chinatown in the state Assembly.
China vows to drop some travel tracking in COVID rule easing
China said it would stop tracking some travel, potentially reducing the likelihood people will be forced into quarantine for visiting COVID-19 hot spots, as part of an uncertain exit from the strict pandemic policies that helped fuel widespread protests.
Staf f picks
Have you been invited to a holiday party? The host and other guests will surely welcome the addition of a colorful sushi platter. Uwajimaya offers 12 different kinds of sushi platters. To accompany the food, a bottle of sake can be enjoyed by all. See Uwajimaya’s Sake 101 in their 2022 Holiday Food & Gift Guide.
9th District Winner of the 2022 Congressional App Challenge
Mercer Island High School junior Subhadra Vadlamannati has been named the winner of the Congressional App Challenge for Washington’s 9th District for her app EduLang, a multilingual library app which […]
Tow-Yick is superintendent of Issaquah schools
Heather Tow-Yick completed her first 100 days as superintendent of Issaquah School District on Dec. 1. During that time, she met with 125 students, over 100 family and community members, […]
Sheng Thao makes history as Oakland mayor
Sheng Thao has been elected as the next mayor of Oakland, California. She is the first Hmong American woman to lead a major U.S. city, the youngest Oakland mayor in […]
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