Asian

January 30, 2025 0

Newest Asian Restaurant, Grocery Hub? Brookline

Buttoned-down suburb of Boston sees an explosion of Chinese, Japanese and Korean food, shopping spots 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 […]

September 13, 2024 0

GUEST COLUMN: Getting the Right Care is Key to Treating Parkinson’s. For Asians, That’s a Problem

by Catherine Chung

“My mother started to have these horrible nightmares,” says Anne, an Asian American woman in Greater Boston. “She would wake up in the middle of the night multiple times … in a panic.” Anne assumed these ‘night terrors’ were a normal part of her mother’s aging, but then she noticed her mother started to fall a lot more over the next few years, which she took as a sign of something more serious. “Even after multiple visits to the primary […]

August 23, 2024 0

Artist Kenson Truong Sheds Light on Asian, Gay Identity

by Ryan Lundgren

Artist Kenson Truong was at work in a small nondescript gray building on a steep, hilly road in Roxbury that serves as a studio for Tufts’ School of the Museum of Fine Arts when I met him last week. He was tinkering with some black, glittery cubes at the time – cubes that appeared like props for the background of an episode of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” of which Truong is coincidentally a fan. The black cubes, however, were part of […]

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