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Fish & Chips Day
Twenty-five years ago my new boyfriend and I were busy working in entertainment production. We had crazy schedules for rehearsals and show shifts. Our paths were going in the same direction, but not often crossing to give us time to really know each other. One evening the stars aligned and we had a few hours around dinnertime to share a meal. Hooray! But as we drove from nearby restaurant to increasingly distant restaurant, we were shocked at the long waits and lines out the door on a weeknight. As we sat in his car outside a normally empty Applebee’s with an hour wait, we saw a couple walking past with…
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Blue Nankeen Exhibition Hall
Of all the world’s traditional handicrafts, I’m most fascinated by the fiber arts. There’s something special about the textiles which make up our human history all over the planet. It’s not something we give much thought to when we go to the mall to buy a new pair of jeans, but creating the fabric for clothing and other uses took up a big part of the lives of artisans in every culture throughout the world. Modern advances in construction techniques mean we’re losing part of our history as the artisans who spent their lives creating textiles by hand retire without passing on their craft to a new generation. In a…
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Moana: A Homecoming Celebration
From my earliest childhood, all I wanted to do was travel the world. A wildly imaginative and precocious kid, my poor frustrated parents would frequently throw their hands up in the air and say, “What are we going to do with you?” My answer was always, “Send me to Germany!” No I didn’t know anyone there, or anyone from there, but it seemed exotic and far away from our Los Angeles suburb and I wanted to. I didn’t know actually living around the world was a possibility, or else that would have been my childhood desire I’m sure. Right now we live in Hong Kong, and get to spend a lot…
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