The film “Devotion” reignited efforts to repatriate the remains of Jesse Brown, America’s first Black Navy pilot, who died in 1950 after having to crash land his damaged plane during the Korean War.

Blue Sea Artisans featuring Rochkovsky in January

LOS ANGELES — When it comes to acting, Maria Bakalova considers herself to be a person of extremes.

NEW YORK — After being arrested for creating antigovernment propaganda in 2010, the Iranian director Jafar Panahi was banned from making films for 20 years. Since then, he’s made five widely acclaimed features.

Kahilu Theatre presents OperAloha — an evening of genre-busting opera performances by some of the most exciting emerging voices in opera today — next month.

The West Hawaii Dance Theatre and Academy lights up the holidays by presenting “The Nutcracker” Dec. 23 at Kahilu Theatre in Waimea.

A Netflix docuseries about professional tennis called “Break Point” — think of it as that sport’s answer to the popular “Formula 1: Drive to Survive” — will debut on Jan. 13, three days before the start of the 2023 Grand Slam season at the Australian Open.

NEW YORK — In a darkened hotel room in New York’s Soho neighborhood, Brendan Fraser kindly greets a reporter with an open plastic bag in his hand. “Would you like a gummy bear?”

Star shines bright at Hoku Concert Series

NEW YORK — Tess Gunty’s “The Rabbit Hutch,” a sweeping debut novel set in a low-income housing community in Indiana, has won the National Book Award for fiction. The 30-year-old Gunty was among three writers nominated for their first published books.