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Akita City “Kanto Matsuri” performance – 2024 Honolulu Festival
19 April 2025 7:57 AM | No CommentsThe Akita City Kanto Festival Executive Committee performed at the 2024 Honolulu Festival, showcasing music and pole-balancing stunts from its annual Kanto Matsuri.
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Petit Bateau Fall 2025 – Tokyo Fashion Week
19 April 2025 5:39 AM | No CommentsWhy did a 132-year-old French casualwear brand, mostly focusing on children's fashion, decide to show at the Tokyo Fall/Winter 2025 collections?
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tiit tokyo Fall 2025 – Tokyo Fashion Week
18 April 2025 9:30 PM | No CommentsAccording to the Rakuten Fashion Week TOKYO show notes, for the Fall/Winter 2025 season, the designers were "inspired by the Danish film "When Animals Dream.""
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Sumo: 73rd yokozuna Terunofuji retires, leaves lasting legacy
10 April 2025 11:57 AM | No CommentsThe Mongolian's calm, regal presence in the dohyo will certainly be missed, but there is no rest for the weary.
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Photos: Yousuke Haga – New York Fashion Week Fall 2025
24 March 2025 3:05 AM | No CommentsPhotos from the Yousuke Haga - Asia Fashion Collection runway show in New York.
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Arts Archive
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Despite snags, Viral Fest Asia 2017 promotes talent from across continent
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on June 5, 2017 | No CommentsThe logistical conundrum of staging Viral Fest Asia 2017 outdoors in Bangkok during rainy season overshadowed some stellar performances. -
Fashion: Papá Originals & éxplorism New York launch party
Yanek ChePosted on May 27, 2017 | No CommentsThe event celebrated the newest collections from baseball cap company Papá Originals and éxplorism, which features artisans' hand-created leather sneakers. -
New York Design Week 2017: Dazzled by KangHee Kim
Yanek ChePosted on May 25, 2017 | No CommentsAreaware and the Rachel Comey fashion boutique co-presented the Dazzled photography exhibit by KangHee Kim. -
Film Review: Salima Koroma’s “Bad Rap”
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on May 22, 2017 | No CommentsThe subjects in "Bad Rap" want labels (of the recording variety), but they resist being labeled (as Asian American rappers). -
Singapore Contemporary 2017 / PHOTO17: Daido Moriyama
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on May 14, 2017 | No CommentsDaido Moriyama made his mark after capturing scenes of post-war Japan, searching for the sinister and the haunting in a teetering urban landscape. -
Art Stage Singapore 2017: Sai Hashizume – Beautiful Stranger
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on May 13, 2017 | No CommentsThe book examines a decade of work by Sai Hashizume, who places her viewers as uncomfortable near-participants in hyperreal pieces resembling photography. -
Graphic Novel Review: Bitch Planet, Vol. 1
Rex BaylonPosted on May 12, 2017 | No CommentsKelly Sue DeConnick’s graphic novel Bitch Planet (2014-ongoing), is an unabashed celebration to the harridan, hellcat vixens of the female sex. -
Graphic Novel Review: Daytripper
Rex BaylonPosted on May 10, 2017 | No CommentsDo any of us really take full advantage of all that life we’ve been given to live? That is the question which plagues the main character in Daytripper. -
Graphic Novel Review: Kill or be Killed, Vol. 1
Rex BaylonPosted on May 9, 2017 | No CommentsEd Brubaker and Sean Phillips' most recent collaboration is a vigilante thriller in the vein of ‘70s classics like Taxi Driver or Death Wish. -
Art Stage Singapore 2017: Ivan Lam’s vending machine as art…selling art
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on May 7, 2017 | No CommentsA vending machine series was borne out of Lam’s frustration with the bureaucratic selection process by prominent art fairs.