The Retirement Of Lewis Leung, Star Tribune Designer And Longtime Asian American Journalists Association

The retirement of Lewis Leung, Star Tribune designer and longtime Asian American Journalists Association treasurer

"The shifting moods and colors of the Arabian Sea -- azure, blue, and black -- mirror the ebb and flow of his thoughts. The horizon rises and then dips, the salt spray is cool on his face; he has the sensation of standing still while plunging toward his future." -The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

Doors Open at Heritage, the Star Tribune printing plant

The Basque country, where a unique language, cuisine and radical separatist elements have long resisted Spanish assimilation. In February the gray-blue waves of La Concha Beach in Donostia-San Sebastian were bitterly cold. After dark in Bilbao, relatives of incarcerated members of the Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) terrorist group gently marched for the transfer of their loved ones to prisons closer to home. Invented here was the brilliant gilda, a pintxo (appetizer) constructed of pickled peppers, olives and anchovies.

Painting by Antonio Ortiz Echagüe.

Kim gets sent up north

Sand volleyball at Memory Lanes