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Callisthenics workouts to improve your lockdown fitness regimen

Callisthenics workouts to improve your lockdown fitness regimen

British GQ — Plenty of people have picked up callisthenics over the pandemic, as gyms and indoor fitness classes have closed and with dumbbells and other weights selling out. It has proven so popular that pull-up bars in many parks have either been fenced off or even completely dismantled in this latest lockdown.
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A Portal Into a Universe Without Covid

A Portal Into a Universe Without Covid

The New York Times — Concerts, beaches, crowds: Videos of New Zealand enjoying its summer feel like peering into an alternate reality. For months now, I have been watching videos from my home country that inspire the same cringing awe, the same guttural queasiness, as watching someone eat a Tide Pod or free-climb a crane.
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What's In a Face?

What's In a Face?

Art in America — In the mid-2000s, Kevin Francis Gray began sculpting cloaked or hooded figures in marble and bronze, their faces hidden by draped cloth. More recent works have featured faces distorted by pockmarks, the marble resembling a dimpled pillow.
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Comfort me with chopsticks

Comfort me with chopsticks

Vittles — Happy Year of the Ox! For today's Lunar Year Special, the Friday slot has been opened up for non-paid subscribers to read Brian Ng's newsletter on the complicated politics of belonging experienced at Chinese restaurants. If you are enjoying Vittles, please do consider subscribing or donating.
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There's More to Bling Empire and House of Ho Than Crazy Rich Asians

There's More to Bling Empire and House of Ho Than Crazy Rich Asians

Vanity Fair — When Crazy Rich Asians was released in 2018, much was made of its being the first American studio film in over a decade to feature a large ensemble Asian and Asian American cast-it was heralded as a triumph of representation.
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A Boutique Handbag Brand Inspired by Both Europe and Asia

A Boutique Handbag Brand Inspired by Both Europe and Asia

ARTnews — Known as a in Japan, a in Korea, or even a swag in Australia, France's is a concept common across cultures: a bag created by tying the corners of a piece of fabric together. It is a concept so simple that Laura Dalaloy, founder of accessories label Yuni Yunan, couldn't believe how difficult it was to find someone else who'd made a bag inspired by it.
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Dirt: Industry could have been me

Dirt: Industry could have been me

Dirt Newsletter — An essay on prestige TV as hypothetical memoir from London-based writer Brian Ng.
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Q+A: Jonathan Nunn, Creator of Vittles Newsletter

Q+A: Jonathan Nunn, Creator of Vittles Newsletter

Study Hall — Jonathan Nunn started Vittles, a largely free Substack newsletter on food and how it affects the societies we live in, at the start of Britain's first lockdown in March, and quickly gained a loyal readership. Members of the UK's establishment food media have lashed out, with a particularly disgruntled critic (though all British food critics' brand is being disgruntled) calling the newsletter the "Food Left."
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A North Korean best-seller provides a rare view inside the isolated nation

A North Korean best-seller provides a rare view inside the isolated nation

Bookforum Magazine — Most fiction about North Korea published outside of that country is by defectors and dissenters, and most of it tells of the hardships of living under a totalitarian regime. Fiction published in North Korea tends to be the opposite: when I visited in 2017, the only English-language books at the bookshop that passed as fiction were hagiographic historical novels about former supreme leaders.
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Q&A with Tammie Teclemariam

Q&A with Tammie Teclemariam

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Q&A with Rafia Zakaria

Q&A with Rafia Zakaria

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Inside Nithurst Farm-a Talented Architect's Dream Home

Inside Nithurst Farm-a Talented Architect's Dream Home

Architectural Digest — It's as if Adam Richards has seen hundreds of years into the future, to a potentially post-apocalyptic time, and planned how his house, Nithurst Farm, will look as a ruin. It is a stepped three-story structure, made of concrete and wrapped in brick.
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Brian Ng | In Chinatown · LRB 21 February 2020

Brian Ng | In Chinatown · LRB 21 February 2020

London Review of Books — There is something unfamiliar in the streets of red bollards and lamp-posts between Shaftesbury Avenue and Leicester Square: space. There is space in Chinatown's supermarket aisles, restaurants and bubble tea shops. Hung's, the restaurant I usually go to for roast duck, is eerily empty.
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How 3 Major Architects Are Reimagining the Neglected Parts of London

How 3 Major Architects Are Reimagining the Neglected Parts of London

Architectural Digest — London is a mosaic of a city: The architecture ranges from the traditional styles named after royalty to the more modern glass-forward approach, while posh suburbs are regularly found next to those that are less affluent. Yet the one thing that's constant throughout the city is the lack of housing.
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Nothing lasts forever: Olafur Eliasson at the Tate Modern

Nothing lasts forever: Olafur Eliasson at the Tate Modern

Whitehot Magazine — Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life Tate Modern Closes January 5, 2020 By BRIAN NG, October 2019 A run club buddy told me the Olafur Eliasson exhibition at the Tate Modern (on until 5 January 2020) was great for little kids. Primary research indicated it was full of installations.
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In Fitzrovia, Jolt Is An Eye-Catching London Cafe With Arab Roots

In Fitzrovia, Jolt Is An Eye-Catching London Cafe With Arab Roots

Sprudge — Located near London's West End, Fitzrovia's a posh haven: Instagrammable cafes, designer stores, and a rich history of literary heavyweights permeate the air there. The southern end is bordered by the infamous Oxford Street, and nearby is the mania of Oxford Circus.
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In Fitzrovia, Jolt Is An Eye-Catching London Cafe With Arab Roots

In Fitzrovia, Jolt Is An Eye-Catching London Cafe With Arab Roots

Sprudge — Located near London's West End, Fitzrovia's a posh haven: Instagrammable cafes, designer stores, and a rich history of literary heavyweights permeate the air there. The southern end is bordered by the infamous Oxford Street, and nearby is the mania of Oxford Circus.
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A Feast by Rosbif: The pop-up only hospitality insiders know about

A Feast by Rosbif: The pop-up only hospitality insiders know about

metromag.co.nz — Welcome to the second helping of Rosbif; a pop-up restaurant run by an Auckland hospitality duo where the food's so good Sid Sahrawat licks the plate. If you want to know how to pronounce Rosbif correctly, it's "roz-beef"- a play on how French people say roast beef, who have issues pronouncing the "st".
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How an Auckland woman became a patisserie master in London

How an Auckland woman became a patisserie master in London

noted.co.nz — You had to arrive early, in order to gather all the ingredients you needed for that day, as well as pots, pans, utensils. If you didn't get them early, you wouldn't have them, and you risked a bollocking later if you weren't set for service.
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The New Zealand Chef Bringing Māori Ingredients to the Fine Dining Stage

The New Zealand Chef Bringing Māori Ingredients to the Fine Dining Stage

Eater — After seven years toiling away in New York City, Monique Fiso decided to pack up and return to her home country, New Zealand, to start a pop-up that harkened back to her Māori roots.
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Kátya Kabanová fills you with despair, in a good way

Kátya Kabanová fills you with despair, in a good way

The National Business Review — NZ Opera steps off the beaten track with a Czech opera set in small-town America.
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Comedy festival review: Improv leaves room for improvment

Comedy festival review: Improv leaves room for improvment

The National Business Review — Performing without a script is terrifying but, when embraced and executed well, it can make a show.
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North Korea holidays: behind the kimchi curtain

North Korea holidays: behind the kimchi curtain

Condé Nast Traveller — North and South Korea became Team Korea for the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, but now the two countries are back apart again. Brian Ng travels to the DPRK to discover what life is like on the other side of the headlines.
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Labour kicks off its Election 2017 campaign

Labour kicks off its Election 2017 campaign

The National Business Review — Photo essay: Jerry Yelich-O'Connor and Brian Ng captures the Labour faithful.
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