NEW BEDFORD — Joan Blanchett will tell you she’s been playing mah jongg for about 100 years, when in reality, it’s been close to 40 years. This milestone has given her the authority on the ancient ...

Last February, my friend Fiona texted a question to me and two other friends: Who wants to learn how to play mah-jongg? None of us — a group of millennial moms in our late 30s and early 40s — had ever ...

A line of children was seen forming outside the entrance to a classroom in Tokyo’s Shinagawa Ward slightly past 10 a.m. on a recent Sunday. But these eager pupils did not come for a weekend cram ...

Five bam. Flower. Two crak. Soap. West. Nine dot. Call – Mah Jongg! Sounds like secret code, but it’s what you might hear when you walk into a room where American Mah Jongg is being played. Even ...

Every summer Thursday, dozens of people gather in Midtown to clack tiles in a game that Jews popularized in the United States. It’s a steamy Thursday afternoon in New York City and, despite the ...

The ancient Chinese tile game of mah jongg is growing in popularity in the New Bedford area. The game uses 152 tiles with suits called cracks, dots, and bams, along with flowers and jokers. The first ...