When more than 75 people heard the sound of taiko drums and watched a lion dance accompanied by live music and exploding firecrackers, they knew the return of a Japanese American cultural institution was finally taking place.
Iconic Bush Garden to reopen June 3
Bush Garden, a longtime cultural institution in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District (CID), will reopen June 3 after a yearslong closure that began during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bush Garden, site of activism, to reopen
As a girl, she was afraid of the “never ending dark pit.”
Crime on the rise in the ID?
On Wednesday, Dec. 10, members of several International District businesses met with a handful of officers from the Seattle Police Department (SPD) to discuss




