“The goal of MOCA’spopularNight Market event is to introduce people to Chinese and Chinese-American cuisine in an easy and accessible way. This way you can sample great signature dishes from 8 different Chinese and Chinese-American restaurants. It’s a simple way to bring the Chinese food culture to the masses.” –Edward Cheng, Advisor for Communications […]
LITERATURE/TRAVEL
NYC & L.A. are Siblings: Dismantling myths (of rivalry)
‘The 100-degree L.A. heat in October had me envying the crispy coolness of colors bursting from the east coast’s dying leaves. Craving nothing more than the feel of leather, fur, and toasty fires, a familiarity with NYC certainly could breed complacence; an unfamiliarity with L.A. could just as easily feed loss. L.A. propels you to drown […]
Mira Nachman’s Infinite Light–Photographing the Real
Mira Nachman’s first exhibit in the United States, at 3Squared Gallery, showcases 28 large-scale photographs that span the globe. Supplying intimate lenses into the lives of real people, phenomena, and scenarios, Mira carves for viewers a single path that forks into many. Curated by Marina Dojchinov, each picture tells a unique story that magnifies a […]
Space to Place: Dubai to New York City
When do high ceilings framed by skin-bare, unpainted walls and long expanses of hardwood floor start to glitter with lights, and invite? When do pleasant archways successively crowning the shafts of narrow hallways, window-sills, frames and glass bring actual dimension to a space? When people weave in between one another, converse and shed ideas. Like […]
A Telescopic Look at Spooner by Pete Dexter
Spooner, Pete Dexter’s latest creative nonfiction masterpiece, published in 2009, 469 pp. by Grand Central Publishing, steers away from his tradition of fundamentally exposing fundamental bigotry, misanthropy and corruption. Chronicling the minutest details of his turbulent childhood, in a series of quick-shot synapses, fractals come to saturate readers’ foreheads, like milk does an animal’s bones. […]