The Blind Swordsman resurrects Japan's most famous samurai, the legendary Zatoichi. Miramax is distributing the movie in the United States. NPR's Bob Mondello offers a review.
Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write for every small paper that ever folded in Washington, just as it was about to collapse — saw that jinx broken in 1984 when he came to NPR.
The Conversation's Catherine Cruz spoke with Senate President Ron Kouchi and House Speaker Nadine Nakamura as the latest UHERO economic forecast was released on May 9.
The unexpected selection of Pope Leo XIV from the heartland of America will be celebrated tonight by Bishop Larry Silva, bishop of the Honolulu Diocese, in a Mass at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa of the Child Jesus in Kalihi. Long-time journalist Mary Adamski worked for 50 years at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and for the last decade there, she covered religion.