Arts & Culture

Nicolas Cage says his new live-action series “Spider-Noir” will offer viewers a distinctive experience, with the option to watch ​it in black and white — “like an old movie” — or in ‌highly saturated color designed to heighten visual intensity. He hopes the noir presentation will engage younger aud…

Joey “Pepe Batbon” Connolly is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. He is the Poet Laureate of Tinian and enjoys stargazing.

MARIANAS Variety editor Zaldy Dandan’s fourth book, “If He Isn’t Insane Then He Should Be: Stories & Poems from Saipan,” is available at the Joeten Shopping Center in Susupe.

(Reuters) — Sonny Rollins had recorded the confidently titled “Jazz Colossus” album in 1956. But the saxophonist remained wracked with self-doubt.

(Reuters) — K-pop sensations BTS, the globally ‌popular boy band that recently returned to the world stage after military service, scored the top honor of artist of the year on Monday at the fan-voted American Music Awards in Las Vegas.

Joey “Pepe Batbon” Connolly is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. He is the Poet Laureate of Tinian and enjoys stargazing.

MARIANAS Variety editor Zaldy Dandan’s fourth book, “If He Isn’t Insane Then He Should Be: Stories & Poems from Saipan,” is available at the Joeten Shopping Center in Susupe. From the blurb: “These stories about Filipino contract workers on the Pacific island of Saipan depict their all-too huma…

TOKYO (Reuters) — One of Japan’s most in-demand ​graphic designers is neither hip nor an artist by training: he’s a septuagenarian security ‌guard who works the graveyard shift at a train station in Tokyo.

DHAKA (Reuters) — A rare albino buffalo with flowing blond hair has become an unlikely celebrity in Bangladesh ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival, drawing crowds of curious visitors ​who say the animal bears a striking resemblance to President ‌Donald Trump.

Joey “Pepe Batbon” Connolly is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. He is the Poet Laureate of Tinian and enjoys stargazing.