Young speed skaters reflect Washington area’s diversity
Washington Post
Within the growing Korean American community in the Washington area, parents have begun to hire top coaches to teach children a sport that’s tremendously popular in their homeland. South Korea has won more Olympic gold medals in short-track than any other country.
“Even though they live in the U.S., many parents think a Korean American should do short-track if they are going to do a sport,’’ said Jimmy Jang, a former coach for the South Korean national team who now coaches in Reston. “There’s a lot of pressure to do the sport and to do well.”
22-year-old Stroud Township arson-murder case appealed
Pocono Record (Penn.)
Han Tak Lee, 73, has been in state prison since 1991.
He’s serving a life sentence after being convicted of setting a July 1989 fire that killed his daughter, Ji Yun Lee, 20, at a Stroud Township religious retreat.
After prior unsuccessful efforts to win a new trial, Lee is now awaiting a federal court decision on his latest appeal.
Lee is appealing on grounds that new discoveries in arson investigative techniques prove police used outdated science to convict him, and that his defense counsel didn’t do enough to challenge the evidence against him.
The appeal recently went before a federal court panel, which is reviewing the matter.
What’s it Like Being a Cheese Superstar?
Gilt Taste
To be sure, cheesemaking has its stars, but one of its brightest, Soyoung Scanlan of Andante Dairy, demurs. Her cheeses are beloved by just a handful of world-class chefs who can get them, but her relationships with those chefs are too personal, too real for her to trade on. She prefers to talk as if she was a tailor, simply interested in making something well-suited for a client. She speaks in pure poetry, her words rich with wisdom and curiosity, but she is famously reticent to give interviews and shies from the business of her work. As she says, “When I make enough money to buy next week’s milk, I feel like the richest person in the world.”
How To Become An American
Sports Illustrated
In the west Arkansas town of Magazine, one sure way for boys from the immigrant Hmong community to assimilate is to put on helmets, cleats and shoulder pads.
(HT 8Asians)
REVIEW: Dia Frampton – Red
Under The Gun Review (blog)
I hadn’t heard the name Dia Frampton before this review, but I certainly won’t be forgetting it now. Red is a gorgeous collection of songs, quirky and fine with a very strong sense of self. Frampton’s pristine vocals steer an understated but faithful line of instruments that add depth and purpose to her works, creating a relatively short but memorable album that’s equal parts folk, pop, and indie and almost entirely flawless.
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