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Editorial

Feb 15, 2017 Firecracker run in Chinatown and two-and-a-half minutes of 100,000 firecrackers going off

by Martin Wong

When friends talk about taking kung fu or karate lessons when they were kids or even Muay Thai or MMA as adults, my response has always been that I prefer to run. There was a time when I would participate in a lot of 5Ks, 10Ks, and the Bay to Breakers. Nowadays, I just sign...

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Feb 07, 2017 Chinatown Year of the Rooster Parade at the crossroads of public education

by Martin Wong

The other day, one of my daughter's teachers remarked that she was already sad about Eloise moving on to middle school in just a couple of years. Already a third grader, she is more than halfway through Castelar Elementary's K-5 span. My response was that my wife and I would be sad as well. We feel...

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Feb 24, 2015 Happy Chinese New Year from Chinatown

by Martin Wong

I didn't even plan on attending Saturday's Chinese New Year parade in Chinatown until our daughter's elementary school coordinator asked my wife Wendy and me if we were going. It was the next day, and he said that Eloise could hold the school's banner. How could we say no, and it would be convenient to...