INTERVIEW: Creating Space with Japanese Breakfast

Looking at my pieces on this site, there’s a lot of local flavor but there is also an abandoned pet project I wrote entitled, ‘Creating Space.’ I wrote this as an introduction, an exploration of myself and an invitation to other Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) creators in Boston for discussion. It felt necessary; I was looking at my own identity in a critical, academic manner and trying to situate my race and ethnicity within the other facets of my identity. I was looking for my community during a time I was uncertain of the future of my own community, while knowing I wanted to have a hand in shaping it. This was before the explosion of Crazy Rich Asians opened the floodgates but well after a single concert changed my entire viewpoint on what was possible for my community – all of my communities.

REVIEW: Shakey Graves and Those Darlins at The Royale (11/12)

By Mary Kate McGrath  Photos by Olivia Haas “Listen,” singer-songwriter Alejandro Rose-Garcia, aka Shakey Graves, demanded of his audience. “Listen to your parents… sometimes. Listen to your elders….sometimes. Listen to yourself…,” he paused, and when the audience tried to cut him off by shouting back ‘always’, he stopped them. “No, no, sometimes you guys, only […]