Building Community Within Diversity
By Diana ChengAAP Film and Arts Writer Ever since his five-hour epic “Happy Hour” garnered accolades in 2015, Japanese director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi has continued to fascinate juries in the festival[…]
By Diana ChengAAP Film and Arts Writer 2021 is a successful year for Japanese director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi. Emerging from a pandemic, two of his films had screened at international film festivals,[…]
SEATTLE — Author Daniel James Brown will attend a one-hour virtual book launch event on Tuesday, May 11 at 8 p.m. (EST), 7 p.m. (CST), 6 p.m. (MST) and 5[…]
BOB SANAAP contributing writer FORT MEYERS, Fla. (March 14, 2020) — The Minnesota Twins baseball club are busy getting ready for the start of the 2021 season. Ace pitcher Kenta Maeda,[…]
By Diana ChengAAP Film & Arts Writer “True Mothers” is acclaimed Japanese director Naomi Kawase’s (Sweet Bean, 2015) newest feature. It is Japan’s official entry to the category of Best[…]
MINNEAPOLIS (Feb. 26, 2020) — Akiko Fujimoto, assistant conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra, makes her classical subscription series concert debut on March 27-28 in special performances at Northrop Auditorium, the[…]
By Diana ChengAAP Film & Arts Writer “To the Ends of the Earth” is Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s newest feature, a U.S. premiere at the 57th New York Film Festival (NYFF) in[…]
By Diana ChengAAP Film & Arts Writer Japanese director Kôji Fukada’s “A Girl Missing” has its North American Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on September 5, the[…]
MITCHELL, S.D. (Aug. 26, 2019) — The Republic of France paid special tribute to three South Dakota members of the “greatest generation.” French Consul General to the Midwest Guillaume LaCroix[…]
French Consul, Chicago — (Aug. 23-24) — Guillaume Lacroix, French Consul General to the Midwest presented the French Legion of Honor medal to Kenneth Higashi, 97, of Spearfish, Orville “Bert”[…]
