Category National Feature

Stale Off the Boat

Fresh off the Boat, ABC’s anything-but-fresh sitcom about an Asian American family going through culture shock in Orlando, Florida, during the mid-1990s suffers from bad writing and stereotypical portrayals. The show centres on a Taiwanese-American family moving from Washington DC…

“I like American food! American? That’s the best Chinese food in San Francisco.”– Flower Drum Song My friends and family know I love Chinese food – whether it’s take-out, dim sum, noodle/won ton/bbq holes-in-the-wall or high-end gourmet Chinese cuisine, I love it…

Remembering Kojiro (Ko) Ebisuzaki

Ko died on November 22, 2014, one month before his 97th birthday. When asked to write a tribute to Ko I had a few misgivings. First of all I didn’t know very much about him. Nothing in fact about his…

Watada’s game of 100 ghosts serves as a conceptual framework for a collection of poems in which the spirits of lost and long-gone family and friends are fondly evoked.

In the recent film festival favourite Dear White People, written and directed by James Williams and Teyonah Parris, the president of a fictitious Ivy League School, Winchester University, in the US declares that racism is over in America – especially…

The year is 2014, and cellist Rachel Mercer’s clearly on a roll: I say this because, in addition to a steady workload of concerts and performances, she has just released two brand new and very appealing CDs of music: SOUNDS…

James Shigeta died on July 28, 2014. The news made nary a wrinkle in the Japanese News Media. But to me, the passing of the famed actor, singer and recording artist was a profound event; it meant the end of…

By K.M. Fukuma Momiji Healthcare Society held their annual Seniors’ Day Celebration on September 12, 2014. Approximately 150 seniors mostly Momiji tenants and friends from the Yee Hong Centre for Geriatric Care and Castleview-Wychwood Towers joined in the celebration. This…

The characters are Cree. Will Bird is a legendary bush pilot, lying in a coma in a hospital in his home town of Moosonee, Ontario . . .

The Golden Ear is a gentle rumination on the nature of existence and as a fable it is effective as long as the reader can accept the premise of a talking, telepathic and philosophical plant.