Matcha-flavored popcorn with Row House Cinema, March 11.

Matcha Popcorn is available for pre-order through Row House Cinema:

Ah remember the days when we thought the 2021 Japanese Film Fest would happen. Crazy times! Instead, we'll be celebrating with some Japanese-inspired popcorn made with Steel City Salt Company's Matcha Salt.

"In Conversation Online: Dawoud Bey and An-My Lê," January 16 with Carnegie Museum of Art.

via anmyle.com.

The Carneige Museum of Art will present "In Conversation Online: Dawoud Bey and An-My Lê" online on January 16 in the final weekend of Lê's exhibition On Contested Terrain.

Join artists Dawoud Bey and An-My Lê for a conversation on the occasion of the closing weekend of the exhibition An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain.

Both artists work with scale, representation, memory, lived experience, and the traces of history in landscape. The recent turn to this subject in Bey's work connects with Lê's longstanding interest in the genre and reunites these MacArthur Fellows more than 25 years after their graduation from the MFA program at Yale University in 1993. Learn about where their careers have traveled since that time and what they have in store for the future.

The online event runs from 12:00 to 1:10 pm and is priced at pay-what-you-wish. Registration can be completed online.

Oriental Market moving up the road to Old McKnight Road and the former David's Bridal.

Work is underway on Old McKnight Road in the North Hills on a new location for Oriental Market, an Asian grocery that operated a little further south on McKnight Road since 2011. A reader sends this photo of this building at 7300 Old McKnight Road (map), which used to house David's Bridal.

Pittsburgh-based WholeRen Education (美国厚仁教育集团) hiring bilingual Mandarin-English Education Sales Consultants.

Pittsburgh-based Chinese education consulting and placement firm WholeRen Education (美国厚仁教育集团) has announced openings for Mandarin-speaking Education Sales Consultants.

Ineffable Cà Phê owner and family opening Phat's bar in Oakland this month.

via @phats418

Phat's is scheduled to open on Semple St. in Oakland on January 21, 2021. It's located at 418 Semple in the spot formerly occupied by Panther House Bar & Grill. It will be owned and run by the family behind Ineffable Cà Phê, a Vietnamese cafe that opened in Lawrenceville in 2017.

Atarashi, formerly known as Sushi Fuku, to open a South Hills location this spring.

Atarashi, the new name of the small Oakland chain formerly known as Sushi Fuku, aims to open a South Hills location in May 2021. It will be located at 1720 Washington Rd. (map), across the street from South Hills Village Mall.

Two of the Sushi Fuku locations in Oakland rebranded as Atarashi---meaning new in Japanese---in August; the South Craig St. location split with ownership and retains the Sushi Fuku name.

Lawrenceville's Pusadee's Garden reopens on January 5; in-person dining by reservation only.

by Hal B. Klein for Pittsburgh Magazine.

Pusadee's Garden in Lawrenceville has reopened as of yesterday and is taking in-person diners by online advance reservationo only. The restaurant closed at the end of 2017 for renovations and was originally scheduled to open on December 3, but delays related to COVID-19 pushed the opening back. It is located at 5319 Butler St. (map).

芋见BAO now open in Oakland, offering dim sum, noodle dishes, bubble tea, and more.

芋见BAO has now opened in Oakland, in the spot formerly occupied by Night Market Gourmet and TOP Shabu Shabu. The old Night Market Gourmet website points to the new restaurant, where the menu offers a variety of dim sum, dumplings, noodle dishes, bubble tea, and more; the new website is meetbaopgh.com and online ordering is available. It is located at 114 Atwood St. (map).

Shadyside rental company hiring Mandarin-speaking office aide.

A Shadyside rental company is hiring a Mandarin-speaking office aide for an apartment complex.

Chinese (Mandarin native fluency) speaking office help needed in busy apartment rental office.

Typical duties include:

Answering telephones

Helping customers with needs

Posting advertisements

Scheduling appointments

General office tasks

Helping show apartments to customers

Please email this office with your resume.

Thanks!

Job Type: Full-time Salary: $18.00 - $21.00 per hour

Online presentation of documentary Edo Avant Garde, January 21 with Pitt's Asian Studies Center.

The University of Pittsburgh's Asian Studies Center will host an online screening of the 2019 documentary Edo Avant Garde, along with a discussion with the director, on January 21.

Edo Avant-Garde reveals the untold story of the vital role Japanese artists of the Edo era (1603 – 1868) played in developing “modern art.” During the Edo era, Japan prospered in peaceful isolation from Western powers, while audacious artists innovated abstraction, minimalism, surrealism and the illusion of 3-D. Their originality is most striking in images of the natural world depicted with gold leaf on large-scale folding screens that anticipate 20th century installation art. In groundbreaking interviews with scholars and priests, the film traces the artists' original visions to their reverence for nature, inspired by Buddhism and Shinto animism.

The event begins at 7:00 pm with an introduction by director Linda Hoaglund; the movie begins at 7:15 and is followed by a discussion with Hoaglund at 8:45 pm. The event is free and open to the public but registration is required.