By Adrian Mack She’s given us an unusually rich field to pick from, but personally, my favourite Sook-Yin Lee moment came sometime back in the 1990s when she casually informed …
Features
By Jenny Uechi Vegetarian Boy Meets Carnivore Girl No, it’s not some PETA campaign for girls who want to meet hot guys by embracing vegetarianism. Rather, soshoku danshi or “vegetarian …
By Michelle Kay “There’s something humbling about craft…for a while, people were into high-tech, super sleek materials, which are really alienating. Right now when times are uncertain, it’s nice …
By Henry Tsang Wine represents so much to so many: class, culture, education, fancy food, expensive restaurants, disposable income, old world money, European history, colonization. Since the 1980s, the nouveau …
Monkey Majik
While many young ESL teachers in Asia brag about being treated like superstars by their students, Canadian brothers Maynard and Blaise Plant have actually gone beyond the confines of their classrooms to become full-fledged pop stars in Japan…
If anyone was listening to the press transmitting their crucial midway and endpoint reports from the 59th Berlin International Film Festival, which ran from February 5 to 15, 2009, one might …
Surrounded by family and friends at Little Sister’s bookstore in Vancouver, Andy Quan takes the stage, having flown in from Australia for a whirlwind book tour of the Pacific Northwest, and reads from his latest collection of poetry, Bowling Pin Fire…