Q&A: Stephane Gauger on Saigon Electric, Vietnamese hip-hop and youth culture
Posted by Jef in Film, Interviews on 11. Nov, 2011 | 0 Comments
Stephane Gauger is a Vietnamese-American filmmaker based in L.A. whose latest work, Saigon Electric, premieres in Canada tonight as part of the Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival. A hip-hop dance film based in Vietnam, Saigon Electric tells the story of a traditional ribbon dancer from the countryside named Mai who moves to the city to audition at a [...]
FIGHT SCENERY: Lethal Weapon, despair, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Posted by Jef in Fight Scenery, Film on 04. Nov, 2011 | 0 Comments
If you’re an avid movie watcher who’s also dealt with depression, I’m sure you have a list in your head of movies, good or not, that “nailed it,” that perfectly captured your particular experience with despair. Maybe Holly Golightly’s “mean reds” speech in Breakfast at Tiffany’s marked your personal line between feeling down and feeling out. [...]
Yes, I live in the suburbs and I don’t have a driver’s license
Posted by Jef in Toronto on 26. Sep, 2011 | 0 Comments
Yay, propaganda! It’s a long story why I never got my driver’s license. Well, actually it’s a short story. No wait — it’s no story. It’s just something that kind of happened, or didn’t happen, but either way, here I am, and honestly, it’s not the worst thing in the world. It’s not even the [...]
Come out to ‘Suburbs vs Downtown: the 416, the 905, and race and ethnicity’
Posted by Jef in Politics, Race, Toronto on 19. Sep, 2011 | 0 Comments
As you may have heard, there’s a heated war going on between the GTA’s downtowners and suburbanites. Or maybe there’s not. Who can say? You can – we’d like to invite you to a very, very informal talk session about the 416, the 905, and what race and ethnicity have got to do with it. [...]
Toronto Fan Expo 2011 Photos (and the Ashcan’s award for most amazing cosplay)
Posted by Jef in Seen at..., Toronto on 08. Sep, 2011 | 0 Comments
Lots of things happened at this year’s Toronto Fan Expo that will be forgotten quickly. “Djurdjegate” will become nothing but another arcane reference for comic fans, and nobody will remember that one time Hayden Panettiere got lost at the airport, not even her. But there is that one thing forever at Fan Expo: the woeful [...]
