Fashionable Pictures I don’t mean to be stereotypical, and I have no idea why this is, but a lot of things that come out of Japan often turn out to …
Set in 2002, Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For brings together the multi-layered voices and history of Toronto, the unexplored lives of urban youth, and the hidden secrets of their families. …
The Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre (VACT) is producing the Brink Festival at Studio 1398 on Granville Island from September 20 – 23, 2012. This festival will represent Asian Canadian actors, …
Published in 16.4 In The Woman Who Could Not Forget, Ying-Ying Chang paints an intimate portrait of her daughter, Iris Chang: an intense, passionate young historian who changed the world’s …
What makes up a city? How do we define cities? How do people use, abuse, or subvert “public” space? Mae gives us a glimpse of the streets of Vancouver, showing …
My cousin recently found these mugshots of our older relatives when they immigrated to New York from China in 1864. Apparently they were arrested for fraud, but it was really …
Auto-Facial-Construction by Mina Loy (1882-1966) The face is our most potent symbol of personality. The adolescent has facial contours in harmony with the condition of his soul. Day by day the new interests and activities of modern life are prolonging the youth of our souls, and day by day we are becoming more aware of the necessity for our faces to express that youthfulness, for the sake of psychic logic. Different systems of beauty culture have compromised our inherent right not only to be ourselves but to look like ourselves by producing a facial contour in middle age which does duty as a “well preserved appearance.” This preservation of partially distorted muscles is, at best, merely a pleasing parody of youth. That subtle element of the ludicrous inherent in facial transformation by time is the signpost of discouragement pointing along the path of the evolution of personality. For to what end is our experience of life if deprived of a fitting esthetic revelation in our faces? …
What’s your favourite bakery or restaurant in Vancouver Chinatown? According to their website, New Town Bakery at 148 E. Pender Street is known for its “award winning apple tarts” and “world famous …
WHAT DOES YOUR OUTFIT SAY ABOUT YOU? Fashionable Asians! is Ricepaper’s very first street fashion series on…fashionable Asians in Vancouver. Unlike any other street fashion blog, however, we seek to …
Have you ever wanted to know what former Ricepaper staff are up to these days? Well, in case you were wondering, we found out on Facebook last week that Jonathan …