The path to stand-up comedy, like the path to any other creative endeavor, can run along seemingly infinite routes.
World’s oldest person, a Japanese woman, dies at 119
By MARI YAMAGUCHI TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese woman recognized as the world’s oldest person, Kane Tanaka, has died at age 119, just months short of her goal of reaching […]
Leaders of 2 Koreas exchange letters of hope amid tensions
The leaders of the rival Koreas exchanged letters expressing hope for improved bilateral relations, which plummeted in the past three years amid a freeze in nuclear negotiations and North Korea’s accelerating weapons development.
Chinese man gets over four years in prison for pandemic fraud
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Chinese man was sentenced to more than four years in prison on April 21 after admitting that he fraudulently tried […]
Alexander Wang returns to runway after sexual assault claims
By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) _ After taking a break amid sexual assault allegations, fashion designer Alexander Wang’s comeback to the runway was greeted with […]
Justices allow admissions policy at prestigious high school
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has turned away a plea from parents to block a new admissions policy at a prestigious high school in northern Virginia that a lower […]
Watari and Wu’s new picture book inspired by daughters
As a young girl in the 1980s, Korey Watari could not find books with characters who looked like her.
BLOG: Oak Tin celebrates buying another Chinatown property and more
The Year of the Tiger may belong to the Gee How Oak Tin family association, representing members with last names of Chin, Chan, Chen, Tran, Woo, and Yuen. It’s Seattle’s only Chinese family association so far, able to host a Lunar New Year community banquet on April 24, even though it has long passed since Feb. 1, the first day of the lunar calendar.
EDITORIAL: When does the pain end?
Size matters—especially in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District (CID). Especially now that the neighborhood is under threat again—this time by a Sound Transit project to expand a transit hub, and possibly shutting […]
Korean American female pastors push back against patriarchy
When the Rev. Kyunglim Shin Lee was ordained in 1988, it angered her in-laws for contravening long-held Korean cultural values subordinating women’s roles in society. Even her husband, a pastor, told her he understood intellectually “but his heart couldn’t accept it.”