By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly Google employees, their family and friends celebrated Lunar New Year on Wednesday, February 18th at its Kirkland campus. Employees took time from their busy […]
BLOG: Year of the Sheep is for weaving dreams — Eight is a lucky number
The Year of the Sheep is for imagination. Just look at celebrities born in sheep years: Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Will Ferrell and others, how they create from nothing to […]
A-pop! A scrappy end to 2013 — Out with the old, in with the new, and more wins!
By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Happy New Year, dear readers! 2014 is here, and while I’m all for ushering in the New Year, I want to take a moment […]
Happy New Year (in April)! — A spotlight on Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, and Cambodia’s new year celebrations
Unlike the Gregorian calendars that start the year on Jan. 1, most South Asian countries use lunisolar calendars that start the year at the beginning of spring.
A year of possibilities? – A-pop! is a monthly column about all things Asian in popular culture
Happy New Year to my fellow pop-culture junkies! December was a fairly slow month. Two films, “The Social Network” and “Rabbit Hole,”