For Chef Rafa Covarrubias, Cooking is About Creating Home
Born in central Mexico’s Querétaro, a young Rafa Covarrubias moved to Calgary in 2013 to pursue a culinary career. His star rose rapidly after graduating from culinary school. He became the sous chef at Calgary’s MARKET, the award-winning Calgary dining staple which turned into a “roaming res
Who Gets The Last Laugh In Ethnic Comedy?
Danzy Senna’s new novel, Colored Television, a struggling biracial novelist-turned-screenwriter begins working with a hotshot Black TV producer who establishes the stakes of the cultural landscape: “Diversity, diversity, diversity. The default is whiteness. They get this flurry of interest in us
Why These Third-Culture Kids Are Making The Decision To Return Home
The narrative is so familiar that it borders on cliché: Go to school to study something practical and, importantly, profitable. Then, land a secure job, court a suitable partner and rear children, who can reap the benefits of your hard work for future generations. The expectations placed upon first
What Does Home Mean for Those Who Live Between Borders?
Home. For most, it’s a place, a familiar landscape, a return to the roots. But for the global citizens among us, home is an evolving concept, shaped by the places we’ve lived, the languages we speak and the myriad cultures that colour our lives. The theme of this issue of 3 magazine explores wha
How the Pelican Club’s Jennica Pocha Made an Unfinished Work Into Art
My late mother was a very talented seamstress; she had probably 50 projects on the go that she would never finish—that was just her personality. When she passed away in 2015, we were going through a sewing room at our house in London, U.K., and I found an unfinished skirt made from a cross weave [
With Her New Book, Catherine Hernandez Delves Into Her Own History
Catherine Hernandez’s latest novel, Behind You, is not your usual ripped-from-the-headlines story, and the first hint is the book’s opening epigraph: “It’s not about him, it’s about us.” The “him” is an unnamed serial killer modelled after the real-life criminal who stalked Sca
How Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ Léuli Eshrāghi Is Bringing Indigenous Perspectives to the Forefront
Léuli Eshrāghi didn’t intend to become a curator; with an academic background in film, languages, literature, museum studies and art history, Eshrāghi’s original intention was to work as an artist, and they started that career in 2011. But after seeing what they described as more “superfici
Why Anne of Green Gables Is Huge in Japan
On an early July day in 1911, a young woman named Lucy Maud Montgomery got married in the parlour of a green-trimmed farmhouse on Prince Edward Island. Fast forward over 100 years later, and Montgomery’s status as a lioness of Canadian literature and globally-beloved author has inspired hordes of
Comedian Alia Rasul and Director Sura Mallouh Bring History, Heart and Humour With New Doc
Filipina-Canadian comedian Alia Rasul says she fell into filmmaking “by accident” during the pandemic. She thought the humorous stories her dad Amroussi told her about his unusual number of near-death experiences would take shape as, at the most, a podcast. “What you see is very differen
Restaurateur Tannis Ling Isn’t Afraid of Putting A Spin on Cultural Cuisine
When Vancouver-born Tannis Ling left her hometown in 2001 to work as a bartender in London, U.K., she immersed herself in the city’s concept-driven bars and restaurants, which she says were years ahead of Vancouver’s bar scene at the time. “Every detail has been thought of, the design, music,
