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August 5, 2023 0

Mutant Mayhem: Fun for All Ages

Cowabunga dudes! The newest iteration of the evergreen (no pun intended) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is here! TMNT Mutant Mayhem is the cinematic reboot audiences and fans have been waiting for. Directed by Jeff Rowe and produced by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and James Weaver, Mutant Mayhem aims high and delivers on every level. This is hands-down the best the Turtles have ever been on screen. This movie just oozes charm and charisma (again, no pun intended). Previous attempts to […]

July 22, 2023 0

Joy Ride: A True Joy Ride From Start to Finish

by Harmony Witte

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 […]

July 8, 2023 0

Elemental Review

by Harmony Witte

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 […]

June 10, 2023 0

Stay True: Hua Hsu’s Memoir About Friendship, Identity, and Assimilation

by Christopher John Stephens

Friendship memoirs can be a tricky genre to navigate. By definition, the writer is on the outside of the narrative: The focus is defining the importance of the relationship. Ann Patchett’s 2004 memoir Truth and Beauty comes immediately to mind. Its evocation of the writer’s relationship with poet Lucy Grealy worked because the focus rested on the symbiotic connection between writer and her subject. In Hua Hsu’s remarkable 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Stay True, that symbiosis takes on an even […]

July 15, 2022 0

Ocean Vuong’s Time is a Mother: Death, Renewal, and Hope

by Sandy Battulga

At only 33 years old, Ocean Vuong has been making unprecedented waves in the literary world. He has received numerous accolades for his writing, a few of which include the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize for his first poetry collection entitled Night Sky With Exit Wounds, a 2019 MacArthur “Genius” Grant, and the Carnegie Medal in Fiction for his debut novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. Time is a Mother is the newest poetry collection to come from the Vietnamese-American author, […]

July 23, 2021 0

Tradition meets Innovation at WakuWaku Ramen + Saké

by Jacqueline Church

A phoenix is rising from the dust of the old Suishaya restaurant in Chinatown. Closing in March due to the pandemic, Suishaya was in many locals’ Chinatown rotation for Korean staples and sushi. Henry Wong, owner of Hong Kong Eatery, took the opportunity to reimagine what this space could be. The new ramen and sake restaurant is in its “soft opening” phase, giving the manager, Dixon Leung, the opportunity to hire and train staff to run the sleek new concept. […]

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