Tag: town

I’ve written before about how I was raised in a sundown town and how sundown towns still exist. There might not be signage outside modern sundown towns that read, “Whites only within city limits after dark,” but the townspeople still find ways to push ...

The very first — and often thought of as the most important — Yama, is ‘Ahimsa’, which means ‘Non-violence’ or ‘non-harming’. (‘Himsa’ = ‘hurt’ and ‘a’ = ‘not’) In this sense, we’re talking about no...

Jake says, “Your mom,” in response to most of my questions, like “Where is the remote?” He says it with a slight smile, perennially unable to hold a straight face. And when he reads this, he’ll crack a joke about his “straight face.” In early 2021, Jake r...

Ifyou live in a mid-sized city in the United States, chances are there is a Black side of town. Of course, there may be exceptions, such as West Virginia, Wyoming, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, and Iowa, which the census says are the areas with the largest share of white residents in America. But e...

Halloween is for the dead, and that now includes, by his own admission, Xavier Dolan’s career. Once the preternaturally gifted brat of the art house world, gracing thousands Tumblr pages in the 2010s, having debuted his first feature film I Killed My Mother at the Cannes Film Festiva...

The very first — and often thought of as the most important — Yama, is ‘Ahimsa’, which means ‘Non-violence’ or ‘non-harming’. (‘Himsa’ = ‘hurt’ and ‘a’ = ‘not’) In this sense, we’re talking about no...

Kabuki-cho in geography Kabuki-cho is located northeast of Shinjuku Station and is approximately 600 meters square. Although the area is small, the number of stores is much larger than the area itself, with more than 1,000 restaurants, hotels, and entertainment facilities crammed into it. It is ...

This is the seventh shrine in the Ginza shrine tour. The atmosphere is a little different in the same Ginza… and when I looked it up, I found that in the Edo period I found out that in the Edo period (1603–1867), many woodcutters lived in this district. The street name “Kob...