February 2nd, 2017 | by weshareinterests | published in FEATURE, LITERATURE & VOCAB | Comments Off on Ricepaper Magazine – Call for Submissions: Time and Space
| STAFF – Reproduced from our friends at Ricepaper Magazine | In our latest submission call, we invite you to speak about time and space. Together, they create the universe. And as abstract as the formation may be, we strive for straightforward explanations. Yet from a human perspective—far removed from detailed descriptions of the cosmos—time […]
January 26th, 2017 | by weshareinterests | published in FEATURE, TRAVEL | Comments Off on Ricepaper Magazine & Talkrice Travel Series
| STAFF – Started in 1994, Ricepaper Magazine is a Canadian literary outfit based in Vancouver and the longest running organization in the country dedicated to the promotion of Asian Canadian literature, culture, and arts. While it showcases Asian Canadian content and has historically dedicated its efforts to all things this, its team today recognizes […]
September 11th, 2016 | by weshareinterests | published in FEATURE, SOCIAL SCIENCES | Comments Off on Priyanka Yoshikawa / Ariana Miyamoto: Japanese Beauty Queens, ハーフ, and Pop-Culture Disconnect
| This week, one of our readers tipped us off on a story about beauty in Japan. For the second straight year, Japan will be represented in one of the Big 4 beauty pageants by a poised, intelligent, strong woman who happens to be racially mixed and unwaveringly proud of who she is. Last […]
May 27th, 2016 | by weshareinterests | published in FEATURE, LITERATURE & VOCAB | Comments Off on Shinji & Obachan Go West
| On a warm evening in 2005, I was walking the girlfriend home and had just stopped by the neighborhood Family Mart for some Jeti, a beverage apparently for children but that I’d grown addicted to because, well, it’s chocolate so it’s good. On our way out of the store I witnessed something strange to […]
May 22nd, 2016 | by weshareinterests | published in FEATURE, LITERATURE & VOCAB | Comments Off on Congee-nial Contact – From Chow to How
| [PLAY] It happens so fast. Take your eye off for a second. Never think it’ll happen till it does. And the pain. That feeling! So comfortable. On a cold, rainy Vancouver night, it is light when there is dark. In climate like this, it’s immeasurably good. And now you’ve paid the price. You failed […]
February 25th, 2016 | by weshareinterests | published in ARTS, FEATURE | Comments Off on Strokes of Genius – Battle of the Brush | Season 6 Begins This Fri. Feb. 26
| When Kevan Seng realized he had no change for the bus, it was decision time: (1) turn back (2) carry on and have faith the flock in front could break a ten. It would be the latter, a choice that took him from medicine salesman to cultural ambassador, community builder, and founder of one […]