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Summer Movie Guide 2025: Here’s what’s coming to theaters and streaming from May to August
June 20, 2025 - 11:23 AM

Ethan Hunt's last mission? A new Superman? Happy Gilmore as a dad? Three genre-spanning Pedro Pascal movies, including a romance, a superhero movie and an A24 Ari Aster thriller? Hollywood is pulling out the stops this

Chinese pop music's 'deeply local' Canadian story shines in Vancouver exhibition
May 28, 2025 - 6:34 AM

VANCOUVER — A new exhibition on Cantopop and Mandopop music in Vancouver is a Canadian story, says curator Melissa Karmen Lee.
Summer Movie Guide 2025: Here’s what’s coming to theaters and streaming from May to August
May 08, 2025 - 4:17 PM

Ethan Hunt's last mission? A new Superman? Happy Gilmore as a dad? Three genre-spanning Pedro Pascal movies, including a romance, a superhero movie and an A24 Ari Aster thriller? Hollywood is pulling out the stops this summer movie season, which kicks off with the release Marvel's “Thunderbolts(asterisk)” on May 2.
Theater Review: The new Broadway 'Glengarry Glen Ross' with Kieran Culkin is perfectly cast
March 31, 2025 - 8:36 PM

Here it comes, almost like clockwork: Another “Glengarry Glen Ross” opens on Broadway with a new set of actors trying their luck with David Mamet's cutthroat look at business, like a “Hunger Games” for real estate.
US TikTok users flock to Chinese app Xiaohongshu in protest with TikTok ban looming
January 14, 2025 - 9:01 AM

HONG KONG (AP) — As the threat of a TikTok ban looms, U.S. TikTok users are flocking to the Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu – making it the top downloaded app in the U.S.
Senegalese artisans in the spotlight as they exhibit for the first time at a prestigious art event
December 03, 2024 - 9:20 PM

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — For the artistic and cultural elites of Senegal, the monthlong Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Arts is a celebratory moment.
Chef Bobby Flay looks back at the dishes that made him a star in new cookbook, 'Chapter One'
December 02, 2024 - 9:07 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Bobby Flay's latest cookbook is really a sort of recipe for how Bobby Flay was made.
'Interior Chinatown': Its cast has faced Hollywood struggles uncannily like its characters
November 18, 2024 - 2:13 PM

Jimmy O. Yang once played “Chinese Teenager #1.” He's now No. 1 on the call sheet in “Interior Chinatown” — despite playing downtrodden background actor Willis Wu in the new Hulu series.
As China cracks down on bookstores at home, Chinese-language booksellers are flourishing overseas
November 18, 2024 - 7:46 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Yu Miao smiles as he stands among the 10,000 books crowded on rows of bamboo shelves in his newly reopened bookstore. It’s in Washington’s vibrant Dupont Circle neighborhood, far from its last location in Shanghai, where the Chinese government forced him out of business six years ago.
'Anora' might be the movie of the year. Sean Baker hopes it changes some things
October 15, 2024 - 11:59 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean Baker’s interest in the lives of sex workers began with his 2012 drama “Starlet.” For that film, set around the adult film world of San Fernando Valley, Baker spent time listening to the stories of sex workers. Some co-starred in the movie. Many became friends.
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iN NUMBERS: Beer, wine and spirits in Kamloops, Okanagan
Everyone loves to go on about how great the wine is in the Okanagan, but good ol’ beer and liquor is too often overlooked. Here are some numbers for wine, beer and spirits in Kamloops and the Okanagan: 8,830: Acres of viney

Texas governor calls for special session after vetoing a bill to ban THC-infused goods
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed a bill that would have banned consumable hemp products containing THC ingredients in the state, but said he's open to lawmakers passing a new effort to regulate what has become a boomin

Central Okanagan needs 20,000 new homes in five years
Cities around the Central Okanagan have been figuring out how many homes they need to build to keep up with the rising demand, but the regional district has taken a step back to look at the bigger picture. The Regional District of the Centr

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Summer Movie Guide 2025: Here’s what’s coming to theaters and streaming from May to August

Chinese pop music's 'deeply local' Canadian story shines in Vancouver exhibition

Summer Movie Guide 2025: Here’s what’s coming to theaters and streaming from May to August

Theater Review: The new Broadway 'Glengarry Glen Ross' with Kieran Culkin is perfectly cast

US TikTok users flock to Chinese app Xiaohongshu in protest with TikTok ban looming

Senegalese artisans in the spotlight as they exhibit for the first time at a prestigious art event

Chef Bobby Flay looks back at the dishes that made him a star in new cookbook, 'Chapter One'

'Interior Chinatown': Its cast has faced Hollywood struggles uncannily like its characters

As China cracks down on bookstores at home, Chinese-language booksellers are flourishing overseas

'Anora' might be the movie of the year. Sean Baker hopes it changes some things

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