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 Taipei Fringe Festival, Red Room brings you “An Evening of Shakespeare.” Red Room Radio Redux is an offshoot of the Red Room and is designed to present great
Read moreHungarian loses appetite at Taiwan breakfast shop
By Frank V., for The Wild East Offering my Hungarian-Jew-style comedy to Taipei Comedy Club guests for the third time some weeks ago, I felt the support of the local audience again, which is the best drug for a comedian. I always wonder why comedy has no tradition in Taiwan,
Read moreUpon 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, whose birthday it is this evening, may have looked back from his seat on the bus and wondered why I hadn’t entered the MRT station. Instead, I made
Read moreTobie 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 things this fall with a meeting on Saturday, Sept. 1 at 10 am. Topic: Taiwan’s Unique BetelNut Girls and the unique Role They Play in Today’s Society. Speaker:
Read moreI 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 into a Tokyo Drugstore – that’s a promising name, for starters – to see what kind of over-the-counter goodies we could score without a prescription. I knew the
Read moreThe 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 parked in front of the 7-11 while we went inside for a bite to eat. The keys were dangling from the ignition. “Yes, I do,” I
Read moreExpat 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 Australia, who shares her many cultural experiences as a Taiwan daughter-in-law on her blog, http://www.taiwanxifu.com/. Read Part 1 here Serina wrote : “I met and married my husband
Read moreFEPOW 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 Spot Theatre at # 18 Chungshan North Road Sec. 2 (near the corner of Nanking) at 6:00pm. The Chungshan MRT Station is just around the corner from the
Read moreExpat 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 they’d exclaim, ‘Ah, Taiwan xifu!” What’s a Taiwan xifu? I wondered. It means “Taiwan daughter-in-law”. But it has another, very positive connotation — of total acceptance in this
Read moreConstruction 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 ecological destruction of Meili Wan (‘Beautiful Bay’) during the course of a hotel’s construction there. Activist and famed Taiwan photographer, Eco Lin, described in an interview with The
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