After 40 years in operation, the Chinese Culture Connection of Malden has recently moved to a new location to better serve the community. “More and more Malden residents can attend our activities now, ...
The paths through Wellesley College were lined with bare trees and piles of snow, still not fully melted. It was early March, and this reporter was making her way around the campus, looking for the ...
When Irene Jor first applied to the Chinese Progressive Association, she was a teenager who even at a young age was already interested in advocacy, especially around domestic violence prevention. She ...
In his 1934 book In Praise of Shadows, author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki writes, “Our ancestors, forced to live in dark rooms, presently came to discover beauty in shadows.” For Yng-Ru Chen, Tanizaki’s words ...
Bak Fun Wong如何成为唐人街学校的“在世传奇”,并为学生们带来他们父母辈未曾拥有的改变 在位于唐人街中心的昆士小学和中学,Bak Fun Wong被誉为“在世传奇”。 1999年,时任昆士小学校长的Bak ...
The video footage played on NBC 6, a South Florida news channel, showed agents who looked like they were ready to enter a battlefield. Donning camouflage helmets and bullet-proof vests, the ...
Biographies can be a tricky, difficult genre to pull off. The best are written from a distance and focus on a critical assessment of their subject. They’re not afraid to hold the person at the center ...
‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’; directed by Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia, 2025); Viewed at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline. The film recently opened at the Coolidge and at West Newton Cinema in ...
Walking back into Josiah Quincy Elementary School in mid-November felt familiar at first, but it took only a few steps to see how much had changed. I’ve returned many times over the years to my old ...
When Chenlu Hou says her colorful, quirky and often wildly decorated clay sculptures are inspired by Chinese folk art and cut paper, it’s at first hard to believe. But then she sits down at her studio ...
When Bobby Wong was a teenager, he wanted to help out with his family’s restaurant, the Kowloon, so he took on some part-time work there. Now, as an adult and a co-owner of the iconic Saugus ...
“People think Palestine is not their problem,” said Trudi Frost of Brookline, who briefly visited the West Bank in December before quickly being jailed and then deported. But, said Frost, “The same ...