Arts
Shakespeare goes live in Red Room radio drama
LOCATION: 2F #117 Sec. 1 Da-an Rd. 台北市大安路一段117號2F DATE/TIME: September 8th & 9th, 2:30pm, and 7:30pm As part of the 5th Annual…
Writer
Trista di Genova
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Culture
Hungarian loses appetite at Taiwan breakfast shop
Offering my Hungarian-Jew-style comedy to Taipei Comedy Club guests for the third time some weeks ago, I felt the support of the…
Comedy
Upon visiting a McDonald’s in an Asian city
The Wild East / Comedy Got off the bus. Saw the yellow arches and headed towards that venerable international institution. My friend,…
Travel
Tobie Openshaw speaks on Taiwan betelnut beauties at Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club, a monthly meeting featuring guest lecturers on a variety of lively topics, will get back in the swing of…
Comedy
I scored some Prozac at the Tokyo Drugstore
Comedy / The Wild East magazine My friend and I wanted to get high, but didn’t know any dealers. So we walked…
Culture
The day I stole a scooter in Kaohsiung
The Wild East / Comedy “I think you must trust people here a lot!” Wubai said, motioning to the rented scooter I’d…
Culture
Expat Chat: On being a Western wife, part 2 of 2
What it’s like being a Taiwan xifu – daughter-in-law…? Curious about other foreign women’s experience of marrying Taiwanese, I interviewed Serina from…
History
FEPOW Day event Aug. 11
Dear Friends, Just a reminder about our annual FEPOW Day event which is being held this coming Saturday, August 11th at the…
Culture
Expat Chat: On being a Western Wife: Part 1 of 2
When I told people that I’d married a “PingDong Man”, a huge smile would break out on their face and almost invariably…
Travel
Construction of seaside hotel killing off Taitung coral reef
Trista di Genova, The Wild East Protesters camped out on the beach in southeast Taiwan last weekend, to call attention to the…
Culture
Adultery still a punishable crime in Taiwan
Taiwan’s law against adultery (xing-fa 刑法), also known as “Criminal Law Number 239” in the legal code, may seem a strange and…
American Taels
Berkeley/MIT/Cornell Summer Happy Hour in Taipei Aug. 9
Summer is here and that means it’s time for the Berkeley Club of Taiwan Summer Happy Hour! Co-hosting with us this year…