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Editorial

Apr 19, 2016 Chinatown Stories

by Martin Wong

Over time, the art of storytelling has come a long way--from teaching lessons to building religions to selling products--and I can understand why. It's more fun and effective to tell stories than philosophize or tell people what to do. And so on Sunday, community s p a c e s will be presenting Chinatown Storytelling Workshop. The...

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Dec 08, 2015 Going Overground presentation at OTIS College of Art and Design

by Martin Wong

The other week, our daughter came home and asked Wendy and me if my brother-in-law could speak to her class. Her teacher was trying to line up speakers for the second-grade Community Heroes unit, and Eric is a pediatrician. Doctors, police officers, fire fighters--the list of speakers was excellent and a lot like a Playskool...

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Nov 05, 2013 Introducing the Save Music in Chinatown Project

by Martin Wong

In this blog, I typically share cool stuff that friends are doing. So please humor me this time as I blab about a project that my wife Wendy Lau and I are starting. In August, our daughter Eloise began attending kindergarten at Castelar Elementary School in Chinatown. It is neither a magnet nor a charter but...