Sara Conway

1 month ago | l8r.it | Sara Conway

On May 9, the global art fair in Taiwan ushered in its sixth edition. Taipei Dangdai Art & Ideas (台北當代), an event held since 2019, gathers together leaders, movers, and shakers across the art industry. Over three jam-packed days, Taipei’s Nangang Exhibition Center becomes a vibrant gathering space for both local and international galleries, emerging and veteran artists, as well as boundary-pushing installations.

2 months ago | envimedia.co | Sara Conway

“In the first twenty years of our lives, we hadn’t even met. But the second twenty years of life are marked by the name ‘sodagreen’ etched into us.”First formed in 2001, the Taiwanese band sodagreen is somewhat of a legend. Vocalist Qing-Feng, bassist Hsin-Yi, drummer Xiao Wei, guitarists A-Fu and Jia-Kai, and keyboardist A-Gong make up the 20-year strong band.

2 months ago | envimedia.co | Sara Conway

Uncomfortable. Tender. Forgiving. These are the three words Vietnamese-American author Carolyn Huynh would use to describe her novel The Family Recipe, which was released on April 1. The words capture the stages the main characters go through as they unravel a decades-long family secret and reconcile with their past. Spanning across two generations, The Family Recipe follows the five estranged children of Duc Tran as they compete to inherit their father’s bánh mì franchise, Duc’s Sandwiches.

2 months ago | l8r.it | Sara Conway

Uncomfortable. Tender. Forgiving. These are the three words Vietnamese-American author Carolyn Huynh would use to describe her novel The Family Recipe, which was released on April 1. The words capture the stages the main characters go through as they unravel a decades-long family secret and reconcile with their past. Spanning across two generations, The Family Recipe follows the five estranged children of Duc Tran as they compete to inherit their father’s bánh mì franchise, Duc’s Sandwiches.

2 months ago | envimedia.co | Sara Conway

Before Taiwanese singer-songwriter Whyte (?te or 懷特 in Mandarin Chinese) became the artist she is now, she was a student studying medicine. It was her seventh year, and she was interning at a place with an extremely strict environment — a hospital that was both a teaching hospital and a part of the military. When Whyte began writing and releasing original music, she wanted to hide her identity.