Photograph by Susan Yee @enpointe
UC Irvine alum Melissa King is the latest winner of “Top Chef All-Stars,” Bravo’s culinary competition show. King is the quintessential entrepreneurial chef and uses her platform to partner with nonprofits supporting minority communities.
As an Asian American queer woman, I hope winning ‘Top Chef All-Stars’ and my success can be an example to my communities that we can achieve anything we set our hearts (on).
King showcased the flavors of her Chinese American upbringing as well as her training in fine dining and Michelin-starred restaurants during her time on the show. “I grew up on fairly homestyle Cantonese dishes: steamed whole fish, Chinese bone broth, sauteed bok choy. … We always had steamed rice in the rice cooker. Growing up in the San Gabriel Valley, I would go to dim sum every Sunday with grandma, and boba shops were everywhere.”
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Brooke Wise on the State of Art
Brooke Wise on the State of Art
The curator discusses how galleries and festivals are adapting to the very strange times.
The curator discusses how galleries and festivals are adapting to the very strange times.
January 19, 2021
Everything is perfectly normal in the world, and things are generally going super well.
Or I guess that s how it feels if you re able to bury your head in the sand and disregard the raging pandemic ( I haven t even peaked yet! - Corona Virus), as well as the omnipresent threat of violence during tomorrow s inauguration for Joe Biden. Then again, disregarding that stuff is apparently what makes for world leaders these days!
The Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery (MAAHMG) is accepting applications for its newly created Artist-In-Residence program. In its first year, one visual artist will be selected to spend a 9-month residency working with the museum to create new works which will be showcased in an exhibition at the museum. The artist will also plan and participate in at
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COVID Is Not Stopping NYC Downtown Icon Justin Vivian Bond From Putting on Their Annual Holiday Show
Many of us shut in and deprived of parties and live performance this COVID year of our Goddess 2020 have been cheered up by the hilarious “Auntie Glam” videos that beloved transgender performer Justin Vivian Bond (formerly of the legendary duo Kiki & Herb) has been posting throughout the year from their historic “House of Whimsy” in upstate New York. In true over-the-top, Rosalind-Russell-in-
Auntie Mame fashion, Bond, in an enormous Marilyn Monroe wig and red-rimmed glasses, waxes philosophical about all matters COVID and political, often while giving viewers a madcap tutorial in making a new cocktail.