Arts & Culture

Rachel Zegler in a scene from “Snow White.” Disney via AP NEW YORK (AP) — The Walt Disney Co.’s live-action, controversy-bedeviled “Snow White” opened in theaters with a sleepy $43 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. With a budget above $250 million, “Snow White” had set …

A festivalgoer makes her choice at the Taste of The Marianas International Food Festival in The Marianas in May 2024. The 26th Annual Taste of The Marianas will be held every Saturday evening in May 2025 at American Memorial Park in Garapan, Saipan. MVA photo (MVA) — It’s an international smorgasbo…

Library Director Erlinda C. Naputi (JKPL) — The California State University at Los Angeles conducted the live webinar on heritage stories from the Pacific entitled “Spotlight on Micronesia: Empowering Local Communities in Heritage Management, Libraries, Archives, and Museum Curatorship.” The webina…

Foreign tourists wearing Japanese traditional kimono clothes pose for a photograph near Sensoji temple at Asakusa district, a popular sightseeing spot in Tokyo, Japan, March 10, 2025. REUTERS MOSCOW (Reuters) — Wrapped up in warm coats and woolly hats, hundreds of people have braved Moscow’s …

Cast member Rachel Zegler attends a premiere for the film “Snow White” in Los Angeles, California, March 15, 2025. REUTERS LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — Disney’s “Snow White” reaches theaters on Friday, after having been dogged by controversies that dragged the retelling of the 19…

Cate Blanchett, left, and Michael Fassbender in a scene from “Black Bag.” Focus Features via AP (AP) — If you’re hosting a dinner for half a dozen British intelligence agents with the aim of ferreting out a mole, what should you cook? For George Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender), who’s preparing for f…

Fans appear at a midnight launch party for “Sunrise on the Reaping” by Suzanne Collins at Barnes & Noble bookstore in New York on Tuesday, March 18, 2025. AP NEW YORK (AP) — Savannah Miller, 26 years old and a “Hunger Games” reader for half of her life, has only grown in admiration for Suzanne …

Actor Brad Pitt waves at fans during filming for an F1-inspired movie at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City, Mexico on Oct. 26, 2024. REUTERS (Reuters) — Brad Pitt’s speed is real and Hollywood’s F1 movie will be the most authentic racing film ever seen when it hits cinema …

AFTER TeAda  Productions’ successful performances on the Hawaiian Islands of Oʻahu, Maui, Moku o Keawe (Big Island of Hawaiʻi), “Nothing Micro About Micronesia” will travel to Saipan, and Guam from April through May of 2025 for the Micronesia Tour. This highly anticipated premiere on Saipan takes p…

TODAY, March 18, is McDonald’s Chalan Laulau’s 32nd year of bringing smiles to customers’ faces. Joe Ayuyu Jr. According to McDonald’s of Guam & Saipan Vice President Joe Ayuyu Jr., son of founder Joe Ayuyu Sr., the opening of Saipan’s flagship McDonald’s location was a “big deal” back in 1993.…