By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly This month’s column stars a disgraced co-founder and a celebrated EGOT winner. Wondering who or what an EGOT is? Read on to find out the answer, along with updates from this month’s entertainment headlines! Pinkberry CEO gets jail time Young Lee, co-founder of the popular frozen yogurt chain Pinkberry, […]
Police focus on Uighurs after fatal Tiananmen car attack
By Christopher Bodeen The Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese police were seeking information Tuesday on two ethnic Uighur suspects believed to be linked to an apparent suicide car attack near Tiananmen Square in the country’s capital that killed five people and injured 38.
Asian American family at center of SUV-bike brawl
By Colleen Long The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The driver of an SUV involved in a bloody confrontation with a throng of motorcyclists was put in “grave danger” and feared for the life of his family when he drove through the crowd, striking a biker on the street, according to the Associated Press.
EDITORIAL: SUV vs motorcycles brawl forces us to reconsider “others”
Last week, a violent altercation between a group of motorcyclists and a family in an SUV made nationwide news.
The Chinese connection to the Boston Bombing
By Staff Northwest Asian Weekly As investigations begin and Boston mourns the events of the bombing of the Boston
Guilty plea for Seattle bicyclist hit-and-run
By Associated Press Staff SEATTLE (AP) — A 28-year-old man charged in the 2011 hit-and-run death of a Seattle bicyclist has pleaded guilty. Erlin Garcia-Reyes of suburban Normandy Park entered his plea Tuesday in King County Superior Court to a charge of felony hit-and-run in the death of Michael Wang.
The Wild Kingdom … in my yard
Quiet now. Keep your head down low. Don’t take your eyes off him. If he looks your way, keep still.