Book Nook: Across borders and memory

Looking for books that explore migration, identity, and history across different communities? This short list offers four thoughtful reads that move between continents and...

Love and Anarchy: The perfect TV show for this Valentine’s

What does the future of the publishing industry, playing a youthful game involving lipstick, swimming in a pool naked, anti-capitalist conversations, and a steamy...

Queer Asian love stories about identity beyond acceptance

Queer movies incorporate sexuality into narratives that extend more broadly into self-identity, and how love is ultimately a force of collision. At the heart...

Monday Music: Sapphic love songs

“Headaches” by Raveena “Headaches” is soft, dreamy, and “unapologetically queer.” Raveena tells a story of unexpected starting out mellow, leading into an instrumental break and...

Naruse Mikio film series takes place in Vancouver

A selection of works by one of Japan’s great masters of the silver screen has returned to Vancouver for the first time in 20...

Nutritious Nibbles: Greek halva

I had finished my dinner when my father brought home a dessert I had never tried before. It looked like caramel bars and tasted...

Ana Falastini explores Palestinian culture

On January 23, the Ana Falastini Tour stopped in Vancouver, at the SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. Ana Falastini, meaning “I am Palestinian,”...

Black Artivism: Fighting systemic racism through art

Content warning: Brief mention of police brutality and slavery. Protest arts materialize when artists undertake the role of activists (hence the portmanteau, artivism) to challenge...

Spring After Spring spotlights the history of Chinatown’s Lunar New Year parade

Through beautiful archival footage and sincere interviews, the documentary Spring After Spring tells the story of the astonishingly hardworking Mimie Ho’s integral role in...

Supernatural shows worth watching and rewatching

If you find yourself yearning for stories that traverse the extramundane, I think you’ll find new worlds to explore in this list. These television...