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THE GOCHISO GOURMET: Repurposing your favorite loaf
So you purchased that perfect olive loaf from La Brea Bakery, and while it made superb sandwiches over the past week, there’s still a half loaf leftover that’s beginning to stale. Or perhaps that artisanal baguette from that independent French bakery down the street has gone stale after several days. What do you do with […]
CAAMFest to highlight Nikkei experiences
CAAMFest36, the 36th annual film festival presented by the Center for Asian American Media, opens with the world premiere of “An American Story: Norman Mineta And His Legacy,” Thursday, May 1 at 7 p.m. at the Castro Theatre at 429 Castro St. in San Francisco. “The Registry,” by Bill Kubota and Steve Ozone, documents aging […]
San Jose sues Trump administration to challenge citizenship question on census
SAN JOSE — The city of San Jose added a new lawsuit to the list of challenges to a plan by the administration of President Donald Trump to add a citizenship question to the 2020 national census. The city filed the lawsuit in federal court in San Jose against the U.S. Department of Commerce and […]
Muslim officer who complained about racism, misconduct alleging retaliation
A San Francisco police officer said April 10 he is being targeted and retaliated against for filing a complaint last year against other officers in which he claimed racial and religious discrimination. The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office announced that the officer, who’s not being named, initially made the complaint because in addition to being […]
In Sports
Japanese baseball ‘Iron Man’ Kinugasa, son of African American, dead at 71
TOKYO — Hall of Famer Sachio Kinugasa, whose 2,215 consecutive games remain a Japanese record, died of colon cancer April 23 aged 71, people familiar with the matter said. Nicknamed “Iron Man,” Kinugasa played for the Hiroshima Carp from 1965 to 1987 and was the Central League’s 1984 MVP. He is tied for fifth in […]
In Travel
Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part series. On our way south on Interstate 93 a sign for the National Bison Range Visitor Center lured us in for a short stop. A tour to see the herd takes one and-a-half to two hours because it is via a one-way road and once started must be […]
In Books
A tranquil story of love
ERIKA-SAN By Allen Say (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2009, 32 pp., $17, hardcover) I wouldn’t intentionally miss a book by Caldecott medalist Allen Say. “Erika-san” was published in 2009, and I did not hear about it until now. It’s a sweet, sentimental but understated book that shows Say’s talent for both storytelling and art. As a […]
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Forgive and go on together
May 10, 2018 By SACHI HANNAH
(Editor’s Note: The following essay won “Best in Class, 5th Grade” in the Growing Up Asian in America contest, sponsored by the Asian Pacific Fund. For all winning entries, visit www.asianpacificfund.org.) I am just a girl who wants something better for our world. I knew little about the power of forgiveness, until I heard these […]