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This year’s Five State Fair will be full of good entertainment, and one of those concerts will be from former “The Voice” contestant Hannah Kay.
Kay said music has been a big part of her life for many years, and she is looking forward to bringing that to Liberal.
Many people like a good love story and earlier this year, author Michael Weiss added to that genre with his new book “A Thousand Gates of Prayer.”
The book takes place in the village of Hakone, Japan, where a forbidden love blooms between Miyuki, a young woman deeply rooted in her village’s traditions, and Masahiro, heir to a prestigious Kyoto family. As they grow closer, they find themselves caught between loyalty and longing, tradition and change. When a construction project threatens to erase Miyuki’s village, their romance becomes a public stand, and with the help of an investigative journalist, they uncover a trail of corruption far more dangerous than either imagined.
32 years ago, a tiny low-budget project from Steven Spielberg called “Jurassic Park” was released and captivated (and terrified) audiences all throughout the world.
Since then, there have been multiple sequels (not all of them as successful as the original hit), and the latest entry in the franchise, “Jurassic World Rebirth” has proven the franchise needs to go extinct before it becomes a complete parody of itself (*cough* “Fast and the Furious” franchise *cough*). While I was home for the holiday last weekend, my mom and brother and I trekked to the movie theater in Wellington to see it, and ultimately, I enjoyed the company more than the actual movie.
The artists at Sony Animation have been knocking it out of the park with their releases and a couple weeks ago, those geniuses struck the perfect chord yet again with their most recent release, “KPop Demon Hunters” on Netflix. The movie follows a fictional K-pop girl group, Huntr/x, who lead double lives as demon hunters; they face off against a rival boy band, the Saja Boys, whose members are secretly demons bent on taking over the world.
I should know by now not to doubt the talent at Sony Animation because like with its 2019 offering “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse,” I saw some of the initial marketing and thought “Eh, I might enjoy it, let’s see how it is” and ended up really enjoying it, much more than I expected.
Like many others in the earlier 2010s, I got caught up in the “How to Train Your Dragon” franchise craze (somewhat thanks to my younger sister) and was charmed by the story of leading man Hiccup and his dragon, Toothless.
DreamWorks recently decided to enter the live-action remake sphere by taking on the first film of the franchise, which I had the chance to take in as a birthday present to myself. For those who aren’t as familiar with the franchise, the first movie follows Hiccup Haddock III, an outcast and son of the village chief, who wishes to become a dragon slayer like the other Vikings, but instead helps and befriends a rare Night Fury dragon, ultimately discovering things are not exactly as they seem in the centuries-old conflict between Vikings and dragons.
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