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Continued growth in property tax evaluation expected

July 10, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Irfan Shariff Northwest Asian Weekly The King County Department of Assessment (Assessor’s Office) has started mailing real estate valuations that will help set what taxes you pay on your property in 2015. It will continue to mail to the 86 different residential areas through October. Last year, 76 areas saw an increase in valuation, […]

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015, Beacon Hill, Irfan Shariff, King County Assessor Lloyd Hara, Mercer Island, Northwest Asian Weekly, Rainer Beach, Rainier Beach, Rainier Valley, Seattle, Vol 33 No 29 | July 12 - July 18

Beer jazzes up the koto

July 4, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Irfan Shariff Northwest Asian Weekly Chris Kenji Beer does not play the koto. He does, however, know the sound of the 13-stringed national instrument of Japan. The koto is a zither, or a musical instrument with strings stretched across a flat, wooden body. It can measure almost six feet in length and is played […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2014, Brass Tracks, Chris Kenji Beer, George Winston, Irfan Shariff, Jouchi Daigaku Sophia University, Koto Jazz, Li Pui Ming, Masahiko Satoh, Meiji-era Japan, Michio Miyagi, New Age, Northwest Asian Weekly, Riley Lee, Scott Cossu, Seattle, Tadao Sawai, Tokyo, Vol 33 No 28 | July 5 - July 11, Windham Hill Records

Diane Sugimura: 35 years of planning for Seattle

May 15, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Irfan Shariff Northwest Asian Weekly One could consider Diane Sugimura as the woman behind Seattle’s skyline. She is the city’s director of planning and development and leads the 300-plus employees of the city’s department. Last year, she celebrated over 35 years of service to the city.

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2014, Bonita Chinn, DPD, Diane Sugimura, Executive Order, Irfan Shariff, Louisa Hotel, Nathan Torgelson, Normandy Park, Northwest Asian Weekly, Rainier Beach, Seattle Parks, Sharon Maeda, Vol 33 No 21 | May 17 - May 23, culture

Burn List: Jazz band with a different beat

May 9, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Irfan Shariff Northwest Asian Weekly Chris Icasiano has been playing the drums since he was 8 years old. He would practice for hours each day, playing along to the classics and favorites of his parents, such as the Beatles, Bing Crosby, and Chicago.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2012, 2014, Aaron Otheim, Benaroya Hall, Bing Crosby, Burn List Jazz, Caf Racer, Chris Icasiano, Cuong Vu, Drew Keriakedes, Filipino American, Grammy Award-winning, Greg Sinibaldi, Irfan Shariff, Jazz Studies, Table Chairs, UW, Vietnam, Vol 33 No 20 | May 10 - May 16

“Impenetrable” dissects beauty

April 25, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Irfan Shariff Northwest Asian Weekly In SIS Productions’ West Coast premiere of Chicago playwright Mia McCullough’s “Impenetrable,” we are forced to examine the notion of feminine beauty. We come to the conclusion that society is obsessed with beauty, whether “big is beautiful,” “beauty is relative,” or that “beauty is burdensome.” We all have our […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features Tagged With: 2014, Asian American, Celebrate Women, Charles Waxberg, Irfan Shariff, Kathy Hsieh, Lisa Marie Nakamura, Mourad Erwin Galan, Northwest Asian Weekly, Parisian-raised Arab American, Sara Javkhian, Vol 33 No 18 | April 26 - May 2, culture

Restaurateur shares how he survived Killing Fields in memoir

June 16, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Irfan Shariff Northwest Asian Weekly Sam (Seng) Ung and Thomas McElroy have known each other for 15 years. They were neighbors in the same South Seattle neighborhood. Ung introduced himself to McElroy’s dog in Chinese. McElroy knew then, as his dog listened patiently to Ung, that this would be a long-lasting friendship.

Filed Under: Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2011, Cambodian Americans, Chinese, Dani Morton, Every Wednesday, International District, Irfan Shariff, Khmer Rouge, Killing Fields, Northwest Asian Weekly, Phnom Penh Noodle House, Sam Ung, South Seattle, United States, Vietnam, Vol 30 No 25 | June 18 - June 24, Wing Luke Museum

EDI helps minorities climb to the top of the ladder

December 2, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

“Take a look at the workforce of the future. In 2012, 75 percent of the workforce will be people of color and women,” said Starr Macdonald

Filed Under: Profiles Tagged With: 2010, Amber Waisanen, Asian American, Asian Pacific-focused, Bellevue Hilton, EDI, Executive Development Institute, Inclusion Fusion, Irfan Shariff, Japanese Americans, Leadership Discovery, Leadership Navigation, Northwest Asian Weekly, Puget Sound, Starr Macdonald, Top Contributors 2010, Vol 29 No 49 | December 4 - December 10, Weyerhaeuser Foundations, culture

Activist Vera Ing tackles new challenge, a memoir

October 21, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Some people may remember Vera Ing from the 1980s when she wrote a weekly column, “Dim Sum: Bits of the Asian American Dream,” for Northwest Asian Weekly.

Filed Under: Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2010, Activist Vera Ing, Asian Americans, Bob Santos, Chinatown, Chinese, Confucius Sept, Dim Sum, International District, Irfan Shariff, Northwest Asian Weekly, San Francisco, Seattle, Tomio Moriguchi, Vera Ing, Vol 29 No 43 | October 23 - October 29, Washington State Liquor Control Board, Wing Luke Museum

Funny action-man Jackie Chan ably dives headfirst into gritty gangster drama

February 5, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Irfan Shariff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY International action film star Jackie Chan wants to prove that he can do more than just stunts. With the release of “Shinjuku Incident,” Jackie Chan proves he has a dark side. From acclaimed Hong Kong director Derek Yee, “Shinjuku Incident” takes Chan’s character, Nick (a.k.a. Steelhead), and smuggles him […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Reviews, At the Movies Tagged With: Al Pacino, Associated Press, China, Chinese, Derek Yee, Hong Kong, Irfan Shariff, Jackie Chan, Jie Daniel Wu, Shinjuku Incident, Tokyo

Skateboard kid becomes a techie, helps design trucks

January 14, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The Lakota Middle School student, of Filipino and Nigerian ancestry, has been skateboarding for eight years. As he became more skilled, he noticed that most skateboards don’t offer the proper resistance in performing intense feats that he and his friends are capable of.

Filed Under: Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2010, Although Veliz, CEO, Carlos Veliz, ESPN, EXPN, Eleonor Oshitoye, Emmanuel Christian Oshitoye, Filipino, Irfan Shariff, Northwest Asian Weekly, PCSI, Philippines, Seattle Pacific University, United States, Vol 29 No 3 | January 16 - January 22, culture

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