They were paved over and forgotten for decades. Now a cemetery garden will honor Chinese workers buried in SE Portland
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On a Sunday afternoon, the Lone Fir Cemetery is serene. A handful of people stroll along the black asphalt paths that divide blocks of burial land. A man sitting beneath a towering red cedar leans back against the thick trunk, headphones on. Fresh roses blanket recent gravestones.
But the southwest corner has no trees, nor gravestones or roses. The land was known as the Old Chinese Burial Ground now Block 14 and was used to temporarily bury early Chinese immigrant workers until their remains could be sent to their hometowns.
Credit Christina Walsh / WWNO
There’s plenty of attention given to the pursuit of “happily ever after” in stories of all sorts. But how should we go about acquiring happiness? Is there a right or wrong way to do it?
Anansi the spider, the thieving trickster at the heart of Eric Kimmel’s Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock, offers up an opportunity for pushing past mere moralizing toward more nuanced conversations about when tricks cross over into deception territory and even when a seemingly harmless little lie may not be seen as such by others.
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Drunken Fish offers sushi menorah platters in time for Hanukkah
All told, the platter consists of a dozen sushi rollsâ96 pieces of sushi total.
Courtesy Drunken Fish
While traditional Hanukkah food usually consists of fried potato latkes and sufganiyot (jelly doughnuts), a new trend has taken off in recent years: sushi, arranged in the shape of a menorah.Â
The phenomenon first appeared more than a decade ago, when restaurateur Mendy Mochkin created the world s first sushi menorah at Yakimono Sushi Bar in Montreal. Since then, the idea of arranging sushi in the shape of a menorah has become an online hitâand now itâs arrived in St. Louis.
22-year-old christina walsh, went to the police after giving us this exclusive interview over the weekend. walsh is better known as capri anderson, her stage name in the porn industry. she says charlie sheen was a fan of hers. but she says the night documented in these pictures obtained by tmz quickly turned ugly. as it progressed he was definitely becoming more intoxicated. he was cursing a lot. he was making racial slurs, derogatory comments towards women. reporter: anderson says it was clear sheen was too drunk to carry on. she says his friend requested that she help get sheen up to his room and into his bed. so we go inside of the room. and then i hear kind of a big snorting sound. i look over and he says, do you party? and i say, no, no thanks, politely. and he gets up at one point and he s kind of with his hands around the bottom of my dress, my thighs. and he kisses me.
own lawsuit against him claiming he tried to choke her in his hotel room after hiring her to attend a dinner with him. here with more of anderson s exclusive interview is ashleigh banfield. i promise i ll get a quiet prostitute. reporter: he is tv s mega million dollar man. all my hooker numbers are in that phone. reporter: the highest-paid actor on television, raking in a reported $1.25 million for every episode of his hit sitcom, two and a half men. she overplayed her hand this time. reporter: although these days, he may be better known for his off-camera antics. the latest, a drunken rampage at the plaza hotel in new york city. it ended with a bloodied sheen being taken away by ambulance for a psychiatric evaluation. in this exclusive interview, the woman who was with him that night it was like being in a horror film. reporter: tells us a very different story. what was the worst thing you think was going to happen to you? that i could be very severely beaten