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Usher in the year of the tiger with these L.A.-area Lunar New Year finds
Kicking off with the brand new moon on Feb. 1 and culminating within the Lantern Competition on Feb. 15, this Lunar New 12 months ushers within the 12 months of the Water Tiger. Regardless of some festivities being canceled because of the coronavirus surge, spirited occasions are braving Omicron, supplemented by an array of themed items to welcome the brand new yr.
By way of Feb. 13, Disney California Journey Park guests can expertise Asian delicacies and crafts, in addition to Mulan’s Lunar New 12 months Procession. On Feb. 5 and 6, the Huntington Library, Artwork Museum, and Botanical Gardens hosts a competition with martial arts displays, lion dancers, reside music, calligraphy and floral arts (advance on-line tickets required, grownup admission is $29, free for members). South Coast Plaza’s lineup, by way of Feb. 20, contains themed affords, menus, music, an interactive botanical show and Liuli Crystal Artwork tiger sculptures as a present with purchases over $2,500. Concierges at Americana at Model and the Grove will hand out purple envelope reductions and complimentary totes.
Hu Ying, a professor of East Asian research at UC Irvine’s Faculty of Humanities, explains that the spine of the vacation is the traditional Chinese language lunisolar calendar. “The folks custom of 12 zodiac animals and the cosmic scheme of 5 components (steel, wooden, water, hearth and earth) are mapped onto the normal Chinese language calendar, so the water tiger comes up each 60 years,” Ying defined. “Lunar New 12 months is well known in a lot of East Asia, together with China, Vietnam and Korea, however not in Japan for the reason that adaptation of the Gregorian calendar in 1873.”
For the report:
1:16 p.m. Jan. 27, 2022An earlier model of this story included an merchandise depicting a Bengal cat and never a Bengal tiger. Additionally, the title of the shop Bunkado was misspelled Bunkadoo.
So what are the qualities of the water tiger?
“Consider water in distinction to what it’s not — motionless, secure or fiery,” Ying stated. ”[The] water tiger is action-oriented. In a new-agey means, you can say it goes with the circulation, with the pressure of least resistance. A tough, stuffed tiger is likely one of the hottest, conventional kids’s toys in China. The tiger is outgoing, full of life and completely happy. Not fierce.”
Celebrations embody a banquet on Lunar New 12 months’s Eve (which this yr falls on the night of Jan. 31), firecrackers sparking into New 12 months’s Day, and visits to household and pals by way of Feb. 3, stated Ying, when fortunate purple envelopes containing financial presents are typically given to kids.
Chunky Paper in Chinatown focuses on trendy riffs on purple envelopes and items from Asian American and Pacific Islander makers. “In trendy occasions, it’s fairly widespread for purple envelopes to be given by pals and colleagues, kids to academics, as casually because the greeting card,” stated co-owner Jeff Lien, including that reward playing cards or stickers typically exchange cash.
Channel the water tiger’s power with these 15 objects.
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Dominican Republic Man's Hand Cut Off in Machete Fight, Picks It Up After
Two men got into an old-school sword duel down in the Dominican Republic … and one poor guy lost a hand in the vicious fight, video taken by eyewitnesses shows.
The crazy battle went down Tuesday in San Pedro de Macorís — a small town on the southern part of the island — and the footage of this altercation is absolutely unbelievable … seriously looking like something straight out of a movie.
The two combatants face offer outside a gas station, with machetes and swinging — steel slashing against steel on the sidewalk. They exchange wild hacks, and, at first, it seems like one man may have the advantage as he forces his opponent to the ground.
Somehow, the man on the ground fends off his attacker with a series of kicks and slashes from his back, forcing his way to his knee … and cutting off his opponent’s hand at the wrist.
After his hand’s slashed off clean, the injured man runs away from his attacker … who walks in the other direction — with his shirt completely covered in blood. Despite being down a limb, the maimed man walks calmly to his severed hand, picks it up and heads off on his way.
Local reports cite eyewitnesses who say the men were actually friends … and this war was actually over a woman. The injured man was taken to a local hospital, but it’s unclear if doctors could salvage the hand and re-attach it.
We also don’t know if the other man involved in the altercation will face charges or not.
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Announcing the 2023 College Podcast Challenge Honorable Mentions
The College Podcast Challenge, now in its third year, received nearly 500 entries from students in 39 states and the District of Columbia. Back in March, we announced our 10 finalists, and earlier this month, we shared the story of Michael Vargas Arango, grand prize winner of the 2023 competition.
Beyond these entries, though, we also received 22 podcasts that caught our ears and that our judges thought had a strong story to tell. Here are the honorable mentions.
650 Words by Audrey Auerbach Nelson
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.
A Hairy Situation by Jane Teran
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.
All I Want for Christmas is an Environmentally Friendly Tree by Amanda Maeglin
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.
Brown Sheep by Isaac Wetzel
Belmont University, Belmont, Tenn.
Bypassers by Aisha Wallace-Palomares
University of California, Berkeley
Cheese Chicanery by Jake Silva
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Colorism in the Pilipinx Community by Malaya Mosqueda
San Jose State University, San Jose, Calif.
Experiencing Freedom Again by Ngan Siu Mei
University of Texas at Austin
How We Live: The Student Athlete Edition by Atavya Fowler
Miami Dade College
It’s Time To BeReal by Pari Goel
Duke University, Durham, N.C.
Juan’s Upon A Time by Juan Miguel Manalo
Miami Dade College
Love Beyond Belief by Jack Lindner
Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind.
Palm Leaves by Suraj Singareddy
Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Puzzles: Are they still playing with our minds? by Yasha Mikolajczak
University of Missouri-Columbia
Rolling Against Hate with the Homos by Audreyanah McAfee
University of California, Berkeley
Sidelined by Jack Ottomano
Pennsylvania State University
SOS 204 Parking by Juanita Hurtado Huerfano
University of Colorado, Boulder
The History of the Silent Disco by Sam Kohn, Rachel Kupfer-Weinstein and Jacob Sarmiento
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, Calif.
The Sleep Study by Morgan Barela
California State University, Long Beach
The Yellow Wallpaper: An Audio Adaptation by Diego Vazquez, Avery Meurer and Timo Nelson
University of Texas at Austin
Two Ranchers from Mining for the Climate by Juan Manuel Rubio, Nate Otjen, Alex Norbrook, Grace Wang, and Max Widmann. Featuring Rebecca Buck and Lisa Stroup
Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
UT’s Tower Bells: A Musical Tradition by Shaunak Sathe
University of Texas at Austin
Congratulations everyone! Thanks again for sharing your stories with us. We loved listening to every minute of them. We hope to hear from you again this fall.
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