January 24, 2025 | Vol. 54, Issue 2

The only bilingual Chinese-English Newspaper in New England

Day: January 30, 2025

Tangled Up in Art: Chatting With ’Ravel’ Sculptors Jongeun Gina Lee and Verónica Pérez

About a decade ago, while in grad school, artist Verónica Pérez received a strange gift: a trash bag full of hair. And she immediately put the furry find to good use. “That was my foray into using hair to represent a human or a body, without actually putting a body into the piece,” says Pérez of their method of creating sculptures. Since that time, the artist’s main medium has become artificial hair. Perez is among the 14 artists who are […]

Buttoned-Down Brookline Becomes Area’s Newest Asian Dining, Shopping Hub

For Asian international students like Nikki Song, Newbury Street used to be her go-to spot to hang out. “It was our only option,” said Song, a Chinese international student studying at Northeastern. But then she discovered an unlikely alternative: Brookline, a town once mainly viewed as a quiet and stodgy suburb with dining options that mostly included family restaurants, a couple of Irish bars and a few old-fashioned Chinese restaurants. In recent years, however, the town has seen an explosion […]

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