Music I Like – Asian Metal
Out of 7.5 billion people in the world, 4.5 billion of them live in Asia. Heavy metal may seem like a white man’s game, but...
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In Qingdao, my daughter and I stayed at the Castle Hotel, a European-style hotel that (in theory) catered to foreigners. (In practice, we saw maybe...
The First Part of Seattle Dance Collective’s Program One
When I heard that Pacific Northwest Ballet principals Noelani Pantastico and James Yoichi Moore were starting their own off-season dance company, I knew it was...
Music I Like From Japan
I like a lot of things from Japan. I could go on and on about the elements from Japanese traditional and pop culture that I...
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When I was in Qingdao, China with my daughter, we got lost a lot. Maybe because we navigated by the strange Ghibli-faced monsters that rose...