Crossing Cultures

Culture shock has a honeymoon phase at its beginning. Shannon Irby, a former Military B.R.A.T. and current postgraduate student living in Ireland, was reminded of this while scrolling through Instagram one day.

In the first “Despicable Me” movie in seven years, Gru, the world’s favorite supervillain-turned-Anti-Villain League-agent, returns for a new era of Minions mayhem in Illumination’s “Despicable Me 4.”

AppleTV+ will be releasing a new “Peanuts” cartoon later this month that centers on an African-American character who also happens to be a Military B.R.A.T..

In last year’s holiday column, I wrote about one memorable customs, cuisines, traditions, and practices in my Louisiana Creole home culture of New Orleans.

Professional engineer Aurora White is working hard to inspire other indigenous youths to take on careers in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM.

The company behind the production of this year’s Pan American Games opening ceremony in Santiago, Chile pulled out all the stops to make it a memorable one.

If you’re in New York City, U.S.A. between Oct. 27 and Nov. 2 this year, you’ll want to check out a cool “Dia de los Muertos” event at Rockefeller Center.

This year’s inductees into the Asian Hall of Fame include the director of an Asian-American comedy film, one of the members of a K-pop girl band as well as a legendary writer for Rolling Stone Magazine.