Gamergate’s Ghostbusters box office bust
As reported on breitbart.com, Sony’s Ghostbusters opened this weekend to a slew of empty seats in empty theaters, taking in an impressive $46 million dollars from the men of various...
Year: 2016
Must reads: Tiny houses, Turkey, Trump, refugees, debtor’s prisons
This week, the RNC opens in Cleveland, Turkey is in political turmoil, France reels in the aftermath of a terrible terrorist attack, and more police officers were shot and killed in the United...
Can you be an expat in your own country?
My mother never forced me to speak Cantonese. Despite spending the bulk of my childhood in Seattle and then Texas, my mother feared for my English. While she continued to speak to me in Cantonese...
A female Prime Minister is not necessarily a feminist Prime Minister
Yesterday, Queen Elizabeth invited Theresa May to become the Prime Minister of Great Britain. Our second female Prime Minister should perhaps be something to celebrate but, on its own, the fact that...
Tibetans protest Chinese mining firms
For many years China has exploited the billions of dollars worth of mineral and oil deposits in Tibet with complete disregard for the local environment and areas of religious significance. Meanwhile,...
10 steps to take when you’re done praying
While at American Baptist College, in Nashville, TN, I was bothered about the purpose of prayer. I said something like, “If God already know my life, what is the use of me praying? It’s going to...
Must reads: Black Lives Matter
This weekend, protests across the United States, and the world, highlighted the unacceptably high death toll of young Black men publicly executed by police. With presidential conventions rapidly...
5 reasons I gave veganism a pass
I eat animal products a couple times a week, mostly dairy, occasionally meat, and I am no longer under the strain of veganism. I truly do respect vegans and if you like the vegan lifestyle, then more...
Shakespeare in an Xbox?: A Chat with EK Theater’s Eddie Kim
I first encountered the work of Eddie Kim and his EK Theater — comprised of students from the Pierrepont School in Westport, CT — over half a decade ago at The Brick Theater in Williamsburg,...
Alan Clarke Retrospective: The Firm (director’s cut)
Let’s begin, at the end of the 1980s and the world of The Firm. The beautiful game is being defiled by the English disease, pumped around the body politic by Football Specials and Intercity trains,...