Kruger Products (manufacturer Cashmere toilet paper and Sponge Towels) recently released their Unapologetically Human ad campaign, featuring real people dealing with real messes – spills, tears, blood, runny noses, messy …
Music
I first heard of Calgary musician FOONYAP from editor/author friend Jen Frankel who had attended FOONYAP’s concert in Guelph as part of the Kazoo! Concert Series and told me I …
Victor Yong of Eye Bender has had many years of music experience under his belt. He first started out with Orient Express (OE), a cover band that was previously featured …
Scholar Dong and Madam Li Written by Wang Renjie Performed by Fujian Province Liyuan Experimental Theatre The story of Scholar Dong and Madam Li is a tale of passion, lust, …
Andrew Huang’s musical mystique is an exploration. Different environments conjure different personalities, different auras and different sounds. Like a chameleon, he is able to instinctually morph to suit his surrounding, …
Hapa-Palooza Festival: September 7-10, 2011 – A Vancouver Celebration of Mixed-Roots Arts + Ideas
Hapa-Palooza: A Vancouver Celebration of Mixed-Roots Arts and Ideas is a new cultural festival that celebrates the city’s identity as a place of hybridity, synergy and acceptance. A vibrant fusion of …
If you had the misfortune of not being able to make it to our latest issue’s launch party, let us at Ricepaper fill you in: it was a gas. No, …
By Jenny Uechi There’s a kind of music that conjures up images of clear blue skies, horses roaming an emerald-coloured horizon. It’s the traditional music of the Buryats, an ethnic …
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 …
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…