We all have our sanctuaries, our personal spaces where we can indulge and escape. The conservatory at Volunteer Park. The Big Picture movie theater in Belltown. And for folks fixated on Japanese comics called manga, there's Kinokuniya, a bookstore in Uwajimaya Village.
By Florangela Davila | March 23, 2006
Seattle Style File
Hello Kitty — Sanrio's international pop icon of cuteness — is 31, fabulous and worth a billion bucks. Women of all ages adore her, and other starlet cartoon characters want to be her. That's how purrfectly irresistible this feline is.
By Joann Natalia Aquino | January 20, 2006
The outing: High above the city's Chinatown International District, adjacent to the gritty concrete of Interstate 5, a garden grows. The tiered plots of the Danny Woo Community Garden on South Main Street are tenderly cared for, and the minimalist Kobe Terrace Park that adjoins it seems committed to sharing the secrets of the young lovers that stroll through.
Like the neighborhood the garden serves, community is evident in every part of the bustling Chinatown ID, proving all the more why a day trip should go beyond that cursory dim-sum brunch.
By Lisa Chiu | November 24, 2005
Whether it means sipping a latte made from Japanese green tea, slurping a bowl of Cambodian noodle soup or shopping for a book on the history of Vietnam, a trip to Seattle's Chinatown International District is a little like hopscotching around Asia on foot.
Other cities have their Japantowns, Chinatowns and Koreatowns. In Seattle, however, Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, African Americans, Vietnamese and other ethnic groups settled together and built one neighborhood.
By Carol Pucci | December 13, 2001
