September 14th, 2014 | by weshareinterests | published in FEATURE, FOOD | Comments Off on Vancouver – Value Eats – Golden Wheat Bakery – Chinatown
Between East Hastings Street and East Pender Street runs Gore Avenue where one will find the second best thing about Vancouver’s Chinatown after New Town Bakery: Golden Wheat Bakery. A lot of people know about New Town, but Golden Wheat is a lesser known gem offering tasty, cheap food for awesome value. For $2.50, yes, […]
September 4th, 2014 | by weshareinterests | published in FASHION, FILM & MUSIC, FEATURE | Comments Off on Afrinese – A Documentary about Sino-African Relations
A couple of Halloweens ago I went to a party and chatted with someone about the upcoming Vancouver Asian Film Festival. We discussed Asian Canadian filmmakers and she mentioned her friend, Bobo Zhao, who was working on a documentary at the time about the growing socio-economic ties between China and Africa. I was immediately interested […]
August 29th, 2014 | by weshareinterests | published in ARTS, FEATURE | Comments Off on MUJI
A friend posted a story from Vancity Buzz today about Japanese consumer goods retailer MUJI entering the Canadian market. “MUJI” derived from “Mujirushi Ryohin” which translates as “no-brand quality goods” will begin their Canadian operations with Toronto in mid-December 2014. Vancouver is sure to follow making this big news for anyone here who likes creative, […]
August 20th, 2014 | by weshareinterests | published in FEATURE, FOOD | Comments Off on Review – Legend House – Coquitlam
Range: $7-$19: | The best mail I’ve received in a long time came today in the form of a menu for a new Chinese restaurant less than a minute’s walk from my place at 140-1169 Pacific Street (near the Target, next to Brown’s Social House). It’s called Legend House and specializes in northern Chinese and […]
August 19th, 2014 | by weshareinterests | published in FASHION, FILM & MUSIC, FEATURE | Comments Off on Insert Credit (2012)
As the 2014 Vancouver Queer Film Festival rolls on, I wanted to remember Emily Carr alumnus, David Nguyen’s Insert Credit which won 2012’s Gerry Brunet Memorial Award for best short film created by a BC director. Something we have seen in the history of video gaming is a shift towards games that feel like movies. […]
August 4th, 2014 | by weshareinterests | published in ARTS, FEATURE | Comments Off on Celebration of Light – Japan & France (2014)
Feature Gallery Photo Credit: Luna Blue Photography | On Saturday, the eve of Vancouver’s Pride Parade, Akariya Fireworks of Japan, entertained a crowd of between 300,000 and 400,000 capping off the 2014 Celebration of Light. Photo Credit: Dru Blackie An ambitious undertaking by the Japanese team, the massive scale and creativity of the performance made […]
July 28th, 2014 | by weshareinterests | published in ARTS, FEATURE | Comments Off on Celebration of Light – USA (2014)
Photo Credit: hondacelebrationoflight.com | If you ask tourists and locals what the best time of the year is in Vancouver, a large percentage of them (if not all) will say the Honda Celebration of Light. Annually, in late July/early August, hundreds of thousands gather around downtown’s English Bay pumping millions into the local economy for […]
July 25th, 2014 | by weshareinterests | published in FASHION, FILM & MUSIC, FEATURE | Comments Off on I’m in the Mood for Love (2011)
The Vancouver Queer Film Festival this year runs August 14-24 and as a lead-up to that, I thought I would remember a film I enjoyed there a while back. I first met Jason Karman at the 2010 festival through film-makers Cal Garingan and Quentin Lee. In 2011, I had the pleasure of seeing his drama […]
July 23rd, 2014 | by weshareinterests | published in FASHION, FILM & MUSIC, FEATURE | Comments Off on MAMM – The Anti-versary
In August 2011, Aaron Au of Titlecard Pictures and Kevin Li of Little Ram Media teamed up to take on the Mighty Asian Moviemaking Marathon (MAMM). They won. Although they could have used 10 days, Au and Li only needed 4 to create their script (which was built around their assigned topic “anniversaries”), recruit actors, […]
July 21st, 2014 | by weshareinterests | published in FASHION, FILM & MUSIC, FEATURE | Comments Off on Review – Fly Me to Minami (2013)
Osaka-based, Chinese-Malaysian writer and director Kah-Wai Lim’s 2013 Fly Me to Minami (Koi suru minami or 恋するミナミ) is a well-executed, fun film with an organized story that leaves behind no loose ends. It looks at the intersecting lives of a fashion magazine editor from Hong Kong, a flight attendant from Seoul, and two men from […]