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Polyfest back with strong diversity showing 14 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM 4 minutes to read Saint Cuthbert’s College Korean Fan Dancing group perform at Polyfest. Video / Michael Craig Backstage left, a group of Korean dancers from St Cuthbert's College are on the move, their long, fluorescent robes rustling. They are about to go on stage at Polyfest, and they're excited. "We were so worried it would be cancelled," said Year 13 student Karen Liu, who is of Chinese descent. "It's nice to have Polyfest back." The Māori and Pasifika festival sees tens of thousands of secondary school students perform...

NEW YORK (AP) — Macy's is looking ahead to a year of recovery and rebuilding from the...

In this moment of COVID-19 restrictions, when people around the world are being asked to limit  their travel, Eugene’s White Lotus Gallery presents us with art from as far away as China and as near as Eugene. Highlights from the Gallery Collection is drawn from the gallery’s permanent collection and features works from 21 different artists. The exhibit runs until March 6. A problem that artists often face, regardless of the culture with which they identify, is how to make a portrait that is both personal and universal.  Yuji Hiratsuka, whose intaglio with collé print called “Urban...

Lynn Stalmaster He impacted hundreds of films and jump-started the careers of unknowns including Dustin Hoffman, Christopher Reeve, LaVar Burton and Ned Beatty. Lynn Stalmaster, the canny casting director who pushed relative unknowns Dustin Hoffman for The Graduate, Christopher Reeve for Superman and John Travolta for Welcome Back, Kotter, has died. He was 93. Stalmaster, who at the Governors Awards in November 2016 became the first casting director in history to receive an Academy Award, died Friday morning at his home in Los Angeles, Laura Adler of the Casting Society of America told Th...

socaltech.com Los Angeles-based Crush Capital, a startup founded by Darren Marble and Todd Goldberg, said on Wednesday that it has raised $3.25M in a seed funding round, which will go towards its own, online streaming series called "Going Public". The company said the seed funding round came from over 30 investors, including Arlan Hamilton, managing partner of diversity-focused VC fund Backstage Capital, Chris Burch, co-founder of iconic fashion brand Tory Burch, and Walter Cruttenden, the co-founder and chairman of micro-investing app Acorns. Crush Cpaital said the funding goes towards deve...