Word: louie
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge Police Department checked the identification of customers leaving Louie's Superette last weekend, according to store manager Sushin Chen...
Last weekend was not the first time the police have targeted Louie's, which is located next to Mather House, for potential violations of the Commonwealth's laws governing alcohol sales to minors, said Chen. Chen added that the crack down at Louie's was just part of the Cambridge and Harvard police forces' regular monitoring of area liquor stores...
Headline Comedy every Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday at 8:30 p.m. for $8; Friday at 8:30 and 11 p.m. and Saturday at 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. for $12; and a Saturday midnight special for $8. Norm Macdonald appears through Oct. 27 with Louie CK and Don white...
...with Asian-American fiction may be only skin-deep. "When there is a great success like Amy Tan's book, everyone is out there looking for his or her own Amy Tan," says Shannon Ravenel, the recently retired editor of the annual collection of The Best American Short Stories. Louie, 36, predicts that "if Gus Lee or Gish Jen don't come through with big sales, then the next wave of interest in Asian- American writers may not come for another 15 years." That would be a shame, because each of these authors possesses the kind of fresh and original...
Even when Louie stopped putting Chinese names in his stories, his prose captured the alienation the author felt growing up as the son of a Chinese- laundry owner in a Long Island, N.Y., suburb. Pangs of Love, whose darkly humorous tales were written over the past seven years, recounts the adventures of a Chinese-American waiter working in a Japanese sushi bar, an Americanized son who can communicate with his Cantonese-speaking mother only in a pidgin version of her language, and the Chinese invention of baseball. Says Louie: "Asian Americans are still marginalized. I feel I have to write...