1999 Archive

Festival of Japanese Anime
November 2, 1999
The Mayan Theatre will run Japanese Anime movies at midnight on Fridays and Saturdays in November. Follow the link to see what movie will be showing.

Race Relationships: Snow Falling On Cedars
By Gil Asakawa
October 17, 1999
I haven't read "Snow Falling on Cedars," the 1994 bestseller by David Guterson, but I got a sneak peek at the movie version of the novel last week at the closing night screening of the Denver International Film Festival. I enjoyed the film and hope it's a hit, with its twenty-something star Ethan Hawke as the main attraction.

The 22nd annual Denver International Film Festival Starts October 7th
October 7, 1999
Director/Actor Sydney Pollack (shown here with Ron Henderson of the Denver Film Society) gave insights into the movie "Random Hearts", which he directed, as the Denver Film Festival officially begins. The movie premiered to cheering crowds at the Buell Theatre. This film festival will run 7 days. There will be many international movies showing at the Denver Film Festival. We've highlighted a number of Asian-related movies for you.

Pictures from the opening night.

Join Horticulture Professionals at Chinese Garden Slide Show
October 7, 1999
The Denver Botanic Gardens will host a slide show on Thursday, October 14, 1999 to recap the highlights of an earlier spring trip to China for the international Horticultural Expo in Kunming.

1999 AsiaXpress.com Tennis Tournament Concluded Snow, Rain, or Shine!
October 4, 1999
The weather folks had predicted snow and rain on our makeup rain-dates, Saturday and Sunday Oct 2 & 3. For once we were glad the weather folks are consistently wrong! Our weekend tennis warriors came back with great enthusiasm as we concluded the tournament on Sunday.

Sat 9/18 | Sun 9/19 | Sat 10/2 | Sun 10/3 | Winners

1999 Boulder Asian Festival
August 25, 1999
A look at this year's Boulder Asian Festival if you missed it. The festival was held on the Boulder County Courthouse lawn on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder.

Cherry Blossom Festival 1999
July 19, 1999

The "Sakura Matsuri" is one of the oldest festival in the Denver Area dating back to October of 1972. This year's event reacquainted thousands of visitors to the Japanese Culture at the Buddhist Temple and Sukura Square in Downtown Denver.

Adele Arakawa "...I had started with hopes of becoming a teacher..."
July 12, 1999

A candid interview by AsiaXpress.com youth-columnists with one of Colorado's most recognizable personalities, Mrs. Adele Arakawa.

Church Bridges Gap Between Vietnam and America with music
June 20, 1999
The Vietnamese Baptist Church presented "Exploration in Love," an evangelism event with talks from an American who grew up in Vietnam as well as musical performances by various Vietnamese artists including Dalena, Chung Tu Luu, Thuy Hang, and Khai Huyen.
RealMedia video clip of Dalena greeting
(Movie clip requires RealPlayer G2 - free download)

2nd Aurora Asian Film Festival Running June 3 - 6
June 1, 1999
The Aurora Asian/Pacific Community Partnership and the Denver Film Society in cooperation with the City of Aurora present the second Aurora Asian Film Festival. Various "In-person" appearances by Directors/ actors/ actresses will be made at the Film Festival.

Congrats to Jodi Cooper of Denver, our Star Wars Tickets Contest Winner!
May 19, 1999
Your guess of 100 is the closest! We were standing at position 162 in line. See what other people guessed. Sorry Kim Blum, your guess of 133 at 12:14 would have won, but the deadline for our contest was 12:00 noon. Here are the lists of contest participants.