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Calling all kids for Haiku art contest
The Cherry Blossom Festival is best known for its annual pageant, in which young women of Japanese ancestry are celebrated for their dedication to Japanese culture, education and community service. Read more
The Cherry Blossom Festival is best known for its annual pageant, in which young women of Japanese ancestry are celebrated for their dedication to Japanese culture, education and community service. Read more
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The video features school staff rapping and dancing to lyrics that teach students about virus prevention measures. Read more
The show, which has been given a working title of “Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.,” will go into production later this year for a 10-episode run. Read more
Disney’s live-action take on “Mulan” has one notable holdover from the 1998 animated version that inspired it: Ming-Na Wen, the actress who originally voiced Mulan, appears in a cameo role. Read more
Who is looking forward to a vacation? We all could use a respite from the monotony of our new pandemic reality. But taking a trip is simply not feasible or safe for us right now. Read more
Eden Lee Murray grew up in Kansas City, Mo., watching her mother perform with the Community Childrens Theatre. Murray was 4 when her mother asked her to pull the curtain open to start a performance. Read more
This week’s synopses. Read more
Award-winning writer Cathy Song will lend her gently compelling voice to Bamboo Ridge Press and Manoa Valley Theatre this weekend, but there will be a new rhythm to her words. Read more
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As COVID-19 and calls for racial justice roil the nation, the Peace Studio, a project co-founded by Hawaii educator and activist Maya Soetoro-Ng, is calling on artists and creatives to calm the mind and inspire peaceful solutions to those and other world problems. Read more
After a few weeks of catalog films and minor releases, the $200 million “Tenet” is the first must-see main event of the pandemic, a mega-movie litmus test for how ready U.S. moviegoers are to return to cinemas. Read more
The Martha’s Vineyard estate of the former first lady is being sold to a pair of nonprofits that plan on turning the property into conservation land open to the public, officials said. Read more
Britney Spears is welcoming public scrutiny of the court conservatorship that has controlled her life and money for 12 years as she seeks to push her father out of power, according to a new court filing. Read more
Time will tell whether this is a one-year blip or if the networks will feel the lingering complications of the pandemic. Read more
As Mark Mothersbaugh lay in a Cedars-Sinai hospital bed in early June after contracting the novel coronavirus, a ventilator tube snaking into his throat to help him breathe, the Devo cofounder and acclaimed film and TV composer came to believe that he was recovering from a vicious beating in downtown Los Angeles. Read more
Theaters, stadiums, museums and other entertainment venues around the nation will be illuminated in red lights as part of an effort to raise awareness of the plight of workers in the live-entertainment industry. Read more
Oasis’ “Meals on Heals” is dispatching drag queens to deliver food, custom cocktails and socially-distant lip synch performances. Read more
Many people have noticed that clothes are fitting tighter as the pandemic shutdown keeps going. These pandemic pounds have launched a series of weight loss messages from health professionals promoting a healthy weight to decrease risks associated with COVID-19 disease. Read more
Works by 15 Hawaii-resident playwrights go on display Tuesday when the PlayBuilders of Hawaii Theater Company presents its ninth annual PlayBuilders Festival as a virtual theater event through Sept. 30. Read more
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