Feb 20
Gung Hay Fat Choy! Chinese New Year greetings “Wishing youProsperity.” It’s an ancient blessing from a 1,000-year-old spring festival,a celebration that promises winter will not last forever. What abeautiful thought to brighten the cold, post-Christmasdoldrums. Because it is a lunar holiday it shifts around our more rigidcalendar and usually settles on the 15 days straddling …
Feb 07
Before I went, everyone told me I’d be disappointed, wished me the best of luck, said it was a real shame I wasn’t headed to Paris or Copenhagen or some other — any other — European capital of note. Afterward, they checked back, eager for affirmation about how underwhelming my experience was. The only thing …
Feb 07
Cairo — The illegal trade in ivory continues in Egypt, with ivory products sold openly in local tourist markets by traders who operate with impunity, a new study by the conservation group Traffic has found. The report, published in the group’s journal, suggests that while the volume of elephant ivory seen in Egyptian tourist markets …
Feb 07
Alliance Japanese brides at San Francisco Bay’s Angel Island immigration station in 1920 The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka, Fig Tree, £12.99, 129 pages During the first two decades of the 20th century more than 20,000 young Japanese women journeyed by boat to Hawaii and the west coast of America to join …
Feb 02
So! The first week of semester 2 has come and gone, and we hope you’re back into study mode. (…or not…) Chopsticks had three fun filled events in the first week back – Did you come and say hi to us? For all of you new members who signed up on RE-O DAY Chopsticks would …
Jan 29
A few days ago, at a luncheon hosted in honour of a minister in one of the capital’s clubs, a few Punjabi ladies looked aghast when the chief guest served himself some rice and chicken and started eating with his hands, licking his fingers occasionally. “Look at him. At least, he could have used a …
Jan 24
Published on Saturday 7 January 2012 09:00 THE panto season is in full swing and the town’s newest theatre group is staging its debut festive show this month at the Raven Theatre, the town’s largest theatre situated in the grounds of Cedars School, Linslade. Curtain Call Theatre Group and its youth theatre section, will be …
Jan 20
Top Garden is a small, unassuming restaurant across the street from the Tewksbury Country Club. If you don’t live in the area, you probably wouldn’t know it exists. Owner Kevin Chu bought the place eight months ago and though he says business is fine, we have the place to ourselves on three visits. The space …
Jan 20
Cube orange image via Valentyn Volkov/Shutterstock If you knew that your nigiri sushi was from farm-raisedAtlantic salmon, genetically engineered (GE) to grow twice as fast usingcombined DNA from Pacific salmon and a large eel-like fish, would you be a bitslower with your chopsticks? Regardless of whether you would make a mad dashfor that last piece …
Jan 12
All but lost in the East, the essence of an age-old culture rises in the West. This is Part 7 of a nine-part series that explores traditional Chinese culture to reveal a deeper understanding of the genius of New York-based classical Chinese dance company Shen Yun Performing Arts. Swishing, spinning, and clapping in the hands …