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World Pizza Will Please Part of the World

Jay Friedman — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 20:35:06 +0000

With my love of Asian food, I’ve walked past World Pizza in the International District innumerable times, wondering what it’s like. When I finally went, my order had to include the Wasabi-Pineapple with Roasted Red Pepper.

Giving It Away With Spectrum’s Miraculous Mandarin in the ID

Michael van Baker — Mon, 07 May 2012 23:25:36 +0000

Have you ever been tempted to take the leap into contemporary dance, but thought at the last moment, Wait, this costs money? Then do we have six free performances for you, featuring one of the Pacific Northwest's most viscerally exciting and intellectually daring dance troupes. Spectrum Dance Theater is taking The Miraculous Mandarin, composer Bela Bartok's one-act ballet about sex and the Mandarin, to Hing Hay Park ("the park for pleasurable gatherings") in Chinatown.

Chinatown’s Paid Parking Mystery Continues to Unfold

Michael van Baker — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:24:54 +0000

Let's not let an unhappily-framed Times story set this debate, though, or we'll be here all week, with precedent set for succeeding weeks. None of us has reason to suspect Chinatown restaurants of crying wolf over declining business--and the question of what's causing the decline can be considered separately from what's to be done about it. Blakeney himself mentions the impact from the "incredible amount of construction and loss of parking in South Downtown," having to do with the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement project.