Harmony Witte

Leisure October 20, 2023 0

Family Style: Memories of an American From Vietnam / Interview with Thien Pham

Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam is the engrossing and heartfelt tale of a family that leaves Vietnam and eventually settles in the United States. It is told from the point of view of a man remembering his time from his childhood through his maturation into an adult. This biographical story is relayed in a graphic novel that Thien Pham wrote and beautifully illustrated. With its depiction of the struggles his family faced, Family Style takes an unflinching look at the realities of life for many immigrants. […]

Arts October 20, 2023 0

Blue Triangle Gallery: Opens with Brash Colors and Words

There’s a new art gallery in Chinatown and it’s proving to be quite the hot spot. The Blue Triangle Gallery, at 17 Edinboro Street, invites visitors to climb a steep set of stairs to the 3rd floor and then they enter into a world of color and words The walls are currently covered in plywood and are wheat pasted from floor to ceiling with posters and framed art by prettycoolstrangers in his first gallery show and first offline art exhibition. […]

Leisure October 6, 2023 0

We Are the Land Tells Wampanoag History

Under the rococo gilding of the Cutler Majestic Theater, a new show was performed for two nights only, September 29th and 30th, in a limited engagement on the historic stage. We Are the Land, the story of what it means to be Wampanoag, is both a pageant and a play and gives audiences a chance to hear directly from Wampanoag people about their history as protectors of the land spanning across several eastern states (including Massachusetts) with stories focusing on […]

Arts October 6, 2023 0

Hao Ruoqi “Spellbinding” Performance of Mulan at the Wang Theater

An ancient Chinese tale was told on the stage. For two nights only, September 23rd and 24th, China Arts and Entertainment Group brought the legend of Mulan to Boston for its US Premier. Winner of the 2018 Lotus Award for a Dance Drama, Mulan explores the folk story of a young woman who goes on a journey of self-discovery, taking her elderly father’s place in the army in the fight against the Huns. Mulan disguises herself as a man and […]

Arts September 15, 2023 0

Little Amal Begins Her US Walk in Boston

A 10-year-old Syrian girl stepped off a boat in Boston Harbor on September 7th—a beacon of hope encountering a new land. Her name is Amal, and she was without parents, a stranger in a strange place, displaced from her home and everything she knew. But Little Amal was not alone; observing closely, she was surrounded by a sea of people who came to greet the 12-foot-tall puppet along with her three puppeteers. Two of the puppeteers were operating her arms […]

Arts September 1, 2023 0

‘Realm of Appearances’ at MFA Gives Window Into Brief Life of Artist Matthew Wong

The Matthew Wong retrospective, The Realm of Appearances is on display now at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. It is a moving exhibit with around 40 examples of the self-taught contemporary artist’s work. The retrospective spans the 6 short years of Wong’s career as an outsider artist after he began to paint and draw steadily until he took his life at the age of 35 in 2019. In the exhibit are some rare examples of his early work and a […]

Arts August 4, 2023 0

At Home in Chinatown Exhibit: An Interview with Curator Lily Song

This reporter attended the opening reception of the exhibit called “At Home in Chinatown: A Residence Lab Retrospective” and the accompanying workshop “Remembering and Remaking Chinatown” at the Pao Arts Center on July 27th. The exhibit featured work and photographs of the processes of six local artists who participated in the Residence Lab and completed site-specific projects during the last four years of the program. There were 4 key themes on display in the show, including art as cultural belonging, […]

Leisure July 22, 2023 0

Joy Ride: A True Joy Ride From Start to Finish

The latest film by director Adele Lim (Crazy Rich Asians) is aptly named as it is a true joy ride from start to finish. It tells the tale of four Chinese American friends who embark on a journey to China to find one of their birth mothers. The film is simultaneously raunchy and hilarious, with a few surprisingly poignant moments mixed in, all of that along with an exploration of identity. Along the way, the main characters all learn to […]

Leisure July 8, 2023 0

Elemental Review

Pixar’s Elemental is a sweet, transfixing tale of an immigrant family of fire elementals making their way through their new life in Element City and the unlikely love story that unfolds. The film follows two generations of a family who are new in a city full of anthropomorphic water, land, earth, and air residents. A city that its very infrastructure is not made to accommodate fire elementals. When the young, temperamental, Ember, meets an easy-going water elemental called Wade, sparks fly, and […]

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