By Assunta Ng Northwest Asian Weekly Did you know that the late Wing Luke, the first Asian American Seattle city councilman, started the preservation of the Pike Place Market campaign even though no history book credited him for it? How did he win his enemies over? Why did he remain unmarried? What did he do […]
A cold front (of people) settles in Seattle for Asian Americans
By Nan Nan Liu Northwest Asian Weekly Moving to Seattle? Beware. It is not just cold. It can be freezing. The Seattle Freeze, brought to infamy in a 2005 article on NWSource.com, was explained as a highly contagious “social disease,” where people in Seattle are polite in passing, but extremely cold and disinterested when making […]