Alexa Strabuk 譚文曠
Note to Readers: Fall 2023 print decisions
After careful deliberation, the International Examiner has decided to continue with printing the newspaper once a month. We experimented with this printing schedule in Summer 2023, and the three-month trial period showed that monthly...
Restaurant 2 Garden seeks to systematize hyperlocal composting in the CID
On an otherwise quiet weekday morning, a group of Mandarin-speaking elders gather at a table near the South Main Street entrance of the Danny Woo Community Garden to dispute the fate of some missing...
Note to Readers: Summer 2023 print changes
The International Examiner will experiment with printing once a month this summer. The print edition will come out on June 21, July 19, and August 16. The goal of this pause is to create...
CID announced as one of 11 endangered national historic places
Seattle’s Chinatown International District (CID) has been named to The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 2023 list of America’s Most Endangered Historic Places, a coalition of organizations and community stakeholders announced May 9 during...
API Chaya hosts first in-person vigil in three years
Last Thursday, March 9, community members gathered at the King County Superior Court for API Chaya’s 28th annual vigil, “Kapwa: Pieces of the Whole.” After convening virtually due to COVID-19, this year’s event marked...
Storied Beams: The mythos of the Chinese Baptist Church
This is the third installment of an essay series annotating and exploring the intersection of history, architecture, and activism in the Chinatown International District.
Pastor Andrew Ng answered the doorbell of the Chinese Baptist Church...
Storied Beams: Ghosts of the Nippon Kan Theater
This is the second installment of an essay series annotating and exploring the intersection of history, architecture, and activism in the Chinatown International District.
Kathy Hsieh first entered the Nippon Kan Theatre in the early...
Storied Beams: Architectural annotations on resilience and survival in the Chinatown-International District
This is the first installment of an essay series annotating and exploring the intersection of history, architecture, and activism in the Chinatown International District.
Buildings ask little of us compared to what we ask of...
Chinatown-ID community events look different this year; here’s how two of them are adapting...
Everything for the AAPI Arts & Crafts Fair had been set: an ideal outdoor location identified, COVID-19 protocol measured out, and a number of local vendors lined up to participate in conjunction with the...
Why does so much beautiful art come out of difficult times? Take a walk...
Featuring photography by Auriza Ugalino.
For a span of time, buckets of paint and art supplies lined each block of the Chinatown-International District (CID) where groups of masked artists, fresh out of quarantine, gathered to...