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Dolar Poised to become Chicago’s First APA Alderman
CHICAGO, Ill. – Naisy Dolar is poised to become the Chicago City Council’s first Alderman of Asian Pacific American descent and, at 34, the council’s youngest member. She won run-off status in the February primary in a cliffhanger of a race and now faces 50th Ward (Far North Side) incumbent Alderman Bernard Stone, 79, […]
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Honda Calls for Tillman Hearings
WASHINGTON D.C. – Requesting a House Armed Services Committee hearing, Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) this week joined the growing chorus of questions surrounding the Pentagon’s report regarding the death of former NFL player Pat Tillman, an Army Ranger serving in Afghanistan.
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The Shameless Hilton Hotel
In 1971, after I returned from Peace Corps Kenya, I taught English as a Second Language to Chinatown adult immigrants. After working all day, my students started studying at 6 p.m., and after class walked or took the bus home. Today Chinatown residents and workers continue to rely on City College classes during the evening, […]
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Mayors Talk About Running Their Cities
CUPERTINO, Calif. — Five Asian Pacific American mayors in Santa Clara county are rare considering how far the community has come since a Japanese American mother actively campaigned against her son, a Union City mayoral candidate, in 1959.
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Q&A With LoveLikeFire’s Ann Yu
Just a year in the making, San Francisco indie band LoveLikeFire competed for a spot performing in local alt-rock station Live 105’s holiday festival and now finished their first self released EP, Bed of Gold.
LoveLikeFire’s vocalist Ann Yu is disarming with her blunt-cut bangs and always demure black tights. But her amiability is unexpected and […] -
South Asian Americans Convene in DC
Dalip Singh Saund was born in a village in Punjab Province, India, in 1899. In 1956, after emigrating to California, getting a Ph.D. in mathematics at U.C. Berkeley, working in agriculture, and serving as a judge, he became the first Asian Pacific American elected to the United States Congress. -
Yee, Ma Oppose 17-Story Campus
SAN FRANCISCO — The Educational Coalition for Responsible Development, led by State Senator Leland Yee and Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, held a press conference last week to oppose development of a City College of S.F. high-rise in low-rise Chinatown and North Beach.
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Chinatown Restaurant Owners Deny Chinese Food is Too Salty
Eight Chinatown restaurant owners gathered at Grant Place restaurant in San Francisco on Mar. 22 to voice their outrage over a new consumer report claiming that Chinese food contains too much sodium.
“We’re concerned that this report may have a negative impact on Chinese restaurants and businesses in Chinatown,” said Wilma Pang, founder of A […] -
Training Mind and Memory
The future of Alzheimer’s Research was examined by UCSF Assistant Professor of Neurology Dr. Li Gan at the sixth annual Alzheimer’s Association Asian Community Fund event at the San Francisco’s Pacific Heritage Museum. Sponsored by Jessa and Thomas Wu and chaired by Eva Jones, Arthur Tom and Tenny Tsai, the guests met the group’s outreach […]
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Eric Conveys Your Requests
“Getting a great idea…while falling to your doom.”
“Goodbye cruel world” is just one of the many emotions and phrases that takes on a whole new meaning in Eric Wu’s popular humor website, Eric Conveys an Emotion. -
Gettin’ Funky With the Monks
Master Shi GuoSong and other Shaolin monks practice their martial arts, kicking and spinning in the air, while members of Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet, gracefully and slowly extend their legs. Together the group is practicing for a unique cross-cultural collaboration, combining martial arts and ballet for a mesmerizing hour-and-a-half piece premiering in April.
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March Madness
Lesson Learned: It’s been a rough few weeks being affiliated with AsianWeek. My sentiments about this disastrous episode were eloquently reflected in previous columns by my distinguished colleagues, Phil Nash and Emil Guillermo.
Many of us affiliated with the paper were embarrassed, besieged by e-mail from friends, and personally angry at AsianWeek for giving such […]
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