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BEEF CHO CHO: Marinated beef skewers, soy sake glaze, finished at the table over a flaming hibachi

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Emma-Lee Moss, AKA singer-songwriter Emmy the Great, has written a memoir rooted in her love of Hong Kong’s east-meets-west pop. She picks her favourite tracks

Emma-Lee Moss, a singer-songwriter who released four albums as Emmy the Great, was born in Hong Kong to an English father and Hongkonger mother. She lived there until she was 11, when her family moved to England, one of many who left Hong Kong before its transfer of sovereignty from the UK to China in 1997.

Even as a child, Moss understood the significance of the handover, which returned Hong Kong to Chinese control after 156 years as a British colony. “Thanks to our British passports, we would avoid the greatest schism our city had ever known – and its consequences, which were unwritten,” Moss writes in her memoir, My Cantopop Nights. Later, as a touring musician, Moss played gigs in Hong Kong, where she reconnected with her childhood love of Cantopop – predominantly Hong Kong music that blended Chinese and western pop sensibilities. In 2017, she moved back there to write her fourth album. That year, which marked 20 years since the handover, saw thousands of pro-democracy protesters on the streets after activists including Joshua Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow were imprisoned. Amid the unrest, Moss sought to capture Hong Kong’s sound and spirit through her music.

Set to be this year’s biggest blockbuster, The Odyssey’s cast has been selected to ‘represent the world’. Fair enough – except that one key country seems to have gone completely unrepresented …

There are the American accents, gleaming body suits and a muddy Dunkirk palette. And then there is Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy, a casting choice that recently drew racist attacks from the usual moaners of the internet, including Elon Musk, who complained it wasn’t authentic. Authenticity matters. He’s just focusing entirely in the wrong place. To many Greeks, what concerns us most about the first look at Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey is the whereabouts of Billy Zane.

Zane, like other beloved members of the Greek diaspora in Hollywood, has recently appeared on “Alternative Odyssey” lists on the Greek side of social media, as well as over dinner table debates from Patras to Palmers Green. (Theo James, Jennifer Aniston, Hank Azaria, and Dave Bautista are among the other nominees.) Greek and Greek Cypriot media platforms are writing open letters. It’s a symptom of feeling left out by Hollywood, again and with no explanation, from our foundational mythologies and epics, with a cast list that features not even a token –opoulos, –edes, or –iannou. Not a single Greek.

Veel gedoe deze week in Bleiswijk, of eigenlijk moeten we zeggen BLEISWIJKISTAN dan wel Ble'ish al-Wyk, omdat de straatnamencommissie is teruggekrabbeld toen bleek dat veel mensen het belachelijk vonden om drie nieuwe straten Arabische namen te geven. Omdat er wadi's in de straten worden aangelegd (Water Afvoer Drainage en Infiltratie, houdt meer vocht vast dan de enkels van uw schoonmoeder maar giet het daarna ook weer in de grond, heeft behalve de naam niet veel met het Midden-Oosten van doen) vonden ze het leuk om de boel te vernoemen naar wadi's (rivierdalen) in Verweggistan, te weten Wadi Musa, Wadi Rum en Wadi Damm. Begrijpelijke ophef want wtf het is hier potverredomme NEDERLAND, hoewel we in de krant lezen dat de Bleiswijkers vooral VERDEELD zijn. (De AD-verslaggever kwam 1 vrouw op een fiets tegen die vond het allemaal wel meeviel.) Om Bleiswijk en daarmee Nederland weer te verenigen doen wij graag een beroep op u, verbinder die u bent, om de straatnamencommissie te adviseren over puur HOLLANDSCHE alternatieven. Dus: