President Joe Biden welcomed a high-wattage collection of singers, authors, artists and humanitarians to the White House on Tuesday to present them with medals.
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By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Top 5 A-pop hall of famers I bet you’re wondering how I picked the Hall of Famers. Really scientifically and through a rigorous point system. No, I’m just playing. It’s very biased and based on faulty intuition and logic. I chose people who I thought made a big and […]
A-pop! Emma Stone, Asian?! — Victories at the Tony’s, ‘The Mindy Project’ cancelled, and more entertainment news
By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly The sun may be out in Seattle, but it’s definitely not shining in all parts of Hollywood! Read on to find out the latest pop culture news and media happenings for Asians and Asian Americans in Hollywood—the good and the ugly. The whitest Asian character in Hollywood Another month, […]
It’s graduation time!
By Jamie Sun Northwest Asian Weekly It’s that Pomp and Circumstance time of year, and in addition to the myriad of graduating APIs around the
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By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly With 2013 officially underway, everyone is clamoring for a fresh start by tackling their New Year’s resolutions.
A-pop! September Edition
A monthly column about all things Asian in popular culture By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Between fall television premieres and online dowries (you read that correctly), September saw Asians popping up in the media in random but interesting ways.
Stories told by comedians and a plastic surgeon that should have been one — NWAW’s monthly must-reads
By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)” By Mindy Kaling Crown Archetype, 2011 Before she became known as the self-involved, boy-crazy Kelly Kapoor on “The Office,” she was Mindy Kaling, a girl from Cambridge, Mass., with a love for comedy. Growing up, she was a bit on […]