by Stowaway Magazine | Apr 10, 2020 | Culture, Life, Winter 2020
New Year’s Eve is a classic holiday that is celebrated by most everyone around the world. In the United States, people gather to watch the ball drop in Times Square, eat lots of finger foods and fancy snacks, and kiss their special someone right at the stroke of...
by Stowaway Magazine | Feb 18, 2019 | Culture, Eats, Life, Winter 2019
Photo by Lulu Chen In Taipei, snacking is almost a cultural celebration, and nowhere showcases that better than the city’s numerous night markets. For more than a century, every night around 5 p.m., hundreds of vendors flock to stalls lining both sides of the...
by Stowaway Magazine | Jan 9, 2016 | Culture, Life, Winter 2016
Many innocent hand signs and other gestures in America can offend residents of another country or even give the complete opposite meaning from what was intended. Here is a quick guide of gestures, where they are okay to use and where they are not, to help you in your...
by Stowaway Magazine | May 7, 2015 | Culture, Fall 2015, Life
“That is so cute! But there’s no way I could do that because I’m too tall.” Or so Wyoming native Valina Eckley thought when she encountered lolita fashion in the Harajuku district of Tokyo, Japan. Despite her initial assumption, Valina began wearing lolita. During the...
by Stowaway Magazine | Jul 1, 2014 | Culture, Life, Summer 2014
It’s the middle of May, and you’re being awakened by snare drums pounding outside your window. Tut . . . Rut tut tut . . . Rut tut tut tut tut. No, a war is not about to start. It’s just the practice sessions of the young drummers, dressed in the colors of...