On this brightest of holidays, the presence of true community fills the soul. Loading Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… How do we define what and who makes up our community? By a strange coincidence of my upbringing, my “community”…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On the wall of my father’s study was an ancient painting of a naked woman. Frail, stricken, and wild-haired, she mused on temporal and spatial distances, as saints and mystics do.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Ang Lee’s 1993 romantic comedy The Wedding Banquet takes a while to get to the titular event, but it’s worth the wait. Bride Wei-Wei (Mei Ching) and groom Wai-Tung (Winston Chao)…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Before becoming an author, I went to college to study international marketing. Like many children of immigrants, I succumbed to the guilt associated with “making a living” before dedicating myself to…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Whether a film is a documentary or a fiction, all contemporary cinema can be considered documentary-fiction in some sense, since most viewers are aware that documentaries are carefully crafted to shape…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to and doing this week. Sign up to get it sent to your inbox. In the 1970s, UCLA’s Ethno-Communications…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On April 9, Luke Marion, a gardener and seed supplier who runs the YouTube channel MIgardener, released a video suggesting specific plants for a “RECESSION-PROOF Garden.” “We’re going to discuss twenty-one…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Last year, for my birthday, my wife gave me a copy of I Remember, a unique memoir by artist Joe Brainard. It’s a neat little book, less than two hundred pages…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On the cover of the April 21, 2025 issue, artist Frank Viva aims to capture the emotions felt by anyone following the events in the White House lately. “I’ve been trying…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The interior of Jeff Bridges’s garage in Santa Barbara, California, has the casual feel of an eccentric dorm room: a tiger-print rug, a pottery wheel, guitars, a rogue toothbrush, pasted-together printouts…