Renaissance Journalism has awarded $185,000 to 20 “nonprofit community, ethnic and university news organizations that are covering the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the San Francisco Bay Area,†it announced. The project aims “to provide emergency funding relief to a select group of nonprofit news organizations that, at great risk to their own journalists, […]
Renaissance Journalism awards $185K to news orgs for COVID-19 coverage
May 21, 2020 by Leave a Comment
In the midst of the global pandemic, waiting game continues for Bay Area J-Towns
May 7, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Two historic ethnic enclaves in the Greater Bay Area are among the communities that began May having learned that they must endure another month of shelter-in-place amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Since temporarily shuttering most businesses March 17, only a few essential businesses, mostly restaurants, continue to operate in San Francisco and San Jose’s Japantowns […]
Bay Area chef J. Kenji López-Alt delivers meals to health care workers
May 7, 2020 by Leave a Comment
The coronavirus pandemic has led to the closure of restaurants across the country. In the interim, many are selling takeout or offering meal deliveries.The Nichi Bei Weekly interviewed chef and New York Times food writer J. Kenji López-Alt by e-mail about how his restaurant, Wursthall in San Mateo, Calif., is staying afloat while giving back […]
THE GOCHISO GOURMET: Involuntary sequestration
April 23, 2020 by Leave a Comment
It is apparent that it’s not life as usual these days. In a perfect world, we wouldn’t even have had the novel coronavirus or COVID-19 pass from animals to humans, but even in the perfect COVID-19 world, we’d shut down and sequester everyone for two to three weeks so that the virus would run its […]
Little Tokyo community strategizes ways to stay in business
April 23, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Businesses in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo typically relied on foot traffic prior to the statewide shelter-in-place orders, which brought the state’s economy to a halt. Amid the shuttered retail spaces, several restaurants continue to operate in the ethnic enclave, but all proprietors have said the situation is difficult. Little Tokyo’s community, however, has tried to […]
Woman recovers from COVID-19
April 9, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Adrian Arima and Monica Yeung Arima started feeling ill during their flight back to the Bay Area on March 3 from their vacation to London and Egypt. “It’s sort of the same as the general flu. No fever at the beginning,†Monica Yeung Arima, 64, said in a phone interview with the Nichi Bei Weekly. […]
S.F. family survives cruise ship quarantine
April 9, 2020 by Leave a Comment
A Japanese American family from San Francisco, passengers on a cruise ship forced to dock at the Port of Oakland after some people on board had been infected with the deadly coronavirus, was finally released from quarantine at a military base in California and allowed to return home. Adelina and Henry Serata and their 23-year-old […]
Website to document anti-Asian hate crimes in wake of Covid-19
March 26, 2020 by Leave a Comment
On a busy San Francisco street in the broad light of day, Yuanyuan Zhu was harassed and spit on by a stranger simply for being Asian in the midst of a global pandemic caused by what the president of the United States calls the “Chinese virus.†Zhu had just been dropped off near the corner […]
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Navigating the new normal
We were faced with a new uncertainty following Bay Area-wide shelter-in-place orders imposed upon us on March 17. That was followed by a statewide order just two days later. States from coast to coast followed suit, altering the lives of millions. Welcome to the new normal, courtesy of the global coronavirus pandemic, or COVID-19. Here […]