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9 months, 1 week ago

An SGV crawl with creator and star of ‘The Brothers Sun,’ the best show Netflix isn’t renewing

LA Times

Ongoing Series Columnist Jenn Harris joins your favorite celebrities to explore their go-to cuisines and restaurants in Los Angeles. The hot pot restaurant, with its ornate woodwork, red and gold light fixtures and pristine marble tables, was featured in the third episode of “The Brothers Sun.” 1:01 p.m. Xiaolongkan hot pot Wu and Chien are spending the afternoon in the …

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11 months ago

Monterey Park shooting survivors dance again in sadness, solidarity: ‘Nothing can kill our spirit’

LA Times

Cindy Lao’s line dance was destroyed by gunfire a year ago, but her spirit wasn’t. On Sunday, the one-year anniversary of the deadliest mass shooting in modern Los Angeles County history, Lao led a small group of people onto a makeshift dance floor at World Seafood Restaurant. “That’s the message: Nothing — no gun or anything — else can kill …

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11 months ago

Year of grief and healing: Monterey Park shooting survivors, victims’ families reflect on trauma

LA Times

May Tom and her son check out a firetruck with firefighter/paramedic David Lawson. Nearly a year after Ronald Tom’s wife was killed in the Monterey Park mass shooting, he and his family visited the local fire station, bearing steamed Chinese buns, to thank the first responders who tended to Diana Tom on that fateful night. That was really special.” Diana …

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1 year ago

After Monterey Park shooting, pastor tried to de-stigmatize therapy for Asian immigrants

LA Times

Eric Chen never met Yu Lun Kao. “That’s where the tragedy hits even closer to home.” After the shooting, Chen served as the liaison among Kao’s family, U.S. Rep. Judy Chu’s office and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles. Shally, whose dance partner died in the shooting and who witnessed the shooting, pays her respects at a …

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1 year ago

Can a play solve the mystery of the Monterey Park mass shooter? Survivors aren’t sure

LA Times

The search for answers played out in a Rowland Heights home, in a room the owners use for karaoke. And on this Saturday he was rehearsing a play called “Dance with New Year’s Eve.” His character, AhGen, was written to parallel Huu Can Tran, who fired 42 rounds in the Star Ballroom Dance Studio during a Lunar New Year’s Eve …

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1 year, 3 months ago

A TikTok star opened a restaurant. Here’s what to order

LA Times

Are you curious about that new restaurant on La Cienega Boulevard? “Me growing up in Vietnam, there’s so many other dishes that I love.” Nguyen’s bò lúc lac is one of my favorite renditions of the dish. Food How to eat pho: A Vietnamese food crawl with Jeannie Mai Jenkins For this installment of The Crawl, our celebrity food crawl …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Healing a shattered community: Monterey Park shooting survivors return to dance

LA Times

Lloyd Gock was struggling with depression. Time helps to heal and it’s kind of fading away, but when they talk about it, it’s still like it was yesterday.” — Lloyd Gock Monterey Park was the 34th mass shooting of the year in the U.S. and one of three in California in about a week, according to the Gun Violence Archive, …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Biden to spotlight gun control in Monterey Park and meet U.K., Australia leaders in San Diego

LA Times

President Biden will travel to California on Monday for a multiday visit that will include a stop in Monterey Park, the site of one of three mass shootings that rocked the state in January. Tsay met with Biden last month after traveling to Washington for the State of the Union address, during which the president referred to him as a …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Brandon Tsay disarmed a mass killer. Now he is Biden’s guest at State of the Union

LA Times

Brandon Tsay had not slept. “It was just reliving a trauma.” Brandon Tsay has received many accolades since disarming a gunman at his family’s dance studio. “I really thought, ‘Wow, I really have to shoot someone today.’ And that’s a very scary situation to be in, to have the power to end someone’s existence,” Tsay said. “He asked a lot …

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1 year, 10 months ago

‘He’s trying to reload the gun’: Voices of terror from Monterey Park shooting 911 calls

LA Times

After police tape was taken down, bystanders view the crime scene inside the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, where a gunman killed 11 people and injured nine. Caller: “We start the car and try to leave and suddenly somebody come next to the window and shoot the window.” Dispatcher: “Is your girlfriend awake?” Caller: “I’m not sure.” In …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Ballroom shooting victims planned for night of fun, dancing

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Those killed by a gunman who opened fire at a Los Angeles-area dance hall are being remembered by friends and family for the zest for life that brought them out that night to celebrate the Lunar New Year. DIANA TOM Diana Tom, 70, was a “hard-working mother, wife and grandmother who loved to dance,” her family said …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Ballroom shooting victims planned for night of fun, dancing

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. DIANA TOM Diana Tom, 70, was a “hard-working mother, …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Our psychological armor helps us cope with mass shootings, but numbs us to the destruction

LA Times

People in Oakland gather Wednesday for a candlelight vigil in memory of the shooting victims in Monterey Park, Half Moon Bay and Oakland. California Honoring the lives lost in the Monterey Park mass shooting On Jan. 21, the Monterey Park community was shattered when the Star Ballroom Dance Studio became the site of one of California’s worst mass shootings in …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Biden pays tribute to victims of California shootings

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Thursday honored 18 people killed in two California mass shootings, saying “we have to be there” with the communities that have been forever scarred by gun violence. “Our prayers are with the people of Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay, and after yet another spree of gun violence in America,” he said at a …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Ballroom shooting victims planned for night of fun, dancing

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Those killed by a gunman who opened fire at a Los Angeles-area dance hall are being remembered by friends and family for the zest for life that brought them out that night to celebrate the Lunar New Year. Here are profiles of the 11 people killed: DIANA TOM Diana Tom, 70, was a “hard-working mother, wife and …

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1 year, 10 months ago

A look at California’s deadly back-to-back mass shootings

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — In the course of 48 hours, two gunmen went on shooting rampages at both ends of California that left 18 dead and 10 wounded. Hours after the city of Monterey Park held a large Lunar New Year celebration, a gunman stormed the Star Dance Ballroom and shot 20 people, killing 11. The semiautomatic handgun Tran used to …

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1 year, 10 months ago

A look at California's back-to-back mass shootings

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Hours after the city of Monterey Park held a …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Chief defends delay telling public of mass shooter at-large

Associated Press

MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — The police chief in the California city where 20 people were shot — 11 fatally — at a ballroom dance hall defended his decision not to warn the public for hours that a killer was on the loose, saying Wednesday he didn’t have enough information to effectively alert residents. Monterey Park Chief Scott Wiese said police …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Monterey Park Police Chief Defends Delayed Warning Of Suspect At-Large

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — The police chief in the California city where 20 people were shot — 11 fatally — at a ballroom dance hall defended his decision not to warn the public for hours that a killer was on the loose, saying Wednesday he didn’t have enough information to effectively alert residents. Monterey Park Chief Scott …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Passion for dance drew many of those slain to ballroom

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Among the 11 people killed when a gunman opened fire during a Lunar New Year celebration at a Los Angeles-area dance hall popular with older Asian Americans were a family’s beloved aunt, a retired man who decided to return to school and the venue’s always-smiling manager. VALENTINO ALVERO Valentino Alvero, 68, was remembered as a dedicated family …

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1 year, 10 months ago

‘Always smiling': Man who managed ballroom among those slain

Associated Press

MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — For those who made their way to the Star Ballroom over the years, Ming Wei Ma was a bright light, always smiling and encouraging those who came to the Los Angeles area dance hall popular with older Asian Americans. “And he would go into my session and talk to the singers and greet them.” Dance instructor …

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1 year, 10 months ago

‘Doesn’t feel real’: Loved ones mourn 11 victims killed in Lunar New Year massacre

LA Times

A girl on Tuesday bows before a series of portraits of the victims of the mass shooting at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park. The 11 victims killed in a massacre at the ballroom this weekend — all of whom were publicly identified Tuesday — were Xiujuan Yu, 57; Hongying Jian, 62; Lilan Li, 63; Wen-Tau Yu, 64; …

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1 year, 10 months ago

3 California mass shootings force grieving Asian Americans to ask painful questions

LA Times

Mourners take part in a vigil for victims of a mass shooting at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park. Paul Hoang, a licensed clinical social worker, said he felt “deep sorrow” at the news that all three shooting suspects were older Asian American men. “Many of the services that are available right now are not culturally sensitive to …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Kamala Harris to travel to Monterey Park in wake of mass shooting

LA Times

A woman who identified herself as Shally, and said her dance partner died in Saturday’s shooting at Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, pays her respects at a makeshift memorial outside the dance hall on Tuesday. Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Monterey Park on Wednesday to honor the victims of one of the three mass shootings that …

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An SGV crawl with creator and star of ‘The Brothers Sun,’ the best show Netflix isn’t renewing

Monterey Park shooting survivors dance again in sadness, solidarity: ‘Nothing can kill our spirit’

Year of grief and healing: Monterey Park shooting survivors, victims’ families reflect on trauma

After Monterey Park shooting, pastor tried to de-stigmatize therapy for Asian immigrants

Can a play solve the mystery of the Monterey Park mass shooter? Survivors aren’t sure

A TikTok star opened a restaurant. Here’s what to order

Healing a shattered community: Monterey Park shooting survivors return to dance

Biden to spotlight gun control in Monterey Park and meet U.K., Australia leaders in San Diego

Brandon Tsay disarmed a mass killer. Now he is Biden’s guest at State of the Union

‘He’s trying to reload the gun’: Voices of terror from Monterey Park shooting 911 calls

Ballroom shooting victims planned for night of fun, dancing

Ballroom shooting victims planned for night of fun, dancing

Our psychological armor helps us cope with mass shootings, but numbs us to the destruction

Biden pays tribute to victims of California shootings

Ballroom shooting victims planned for night of fun, dancing

A look at California’s deadly back-to-back mass shootings

A look at California's back-to-back mass shootings

Chief defends delay telling public of mass shooter at-large

Monterey Park Police Chief Defends Delayed Warning Of Suspect At-Large

Passion for dance drew many of those slain to ballroom

‘Always smiling': Man who managed ballroom among those slain

‘Doesn’t feel real’: Loved ones mourn 11 victims killed in Lunar New Year massacre

3 California mass shootings force grieving Asian Americans to ask painful questions

Kamala Harris to travel to Monterey Park in wake of mass shooting