When Trish Fontanilla was a child, she had two birthday parties. One had pizza and a yellow sheet cake and was celebrated ...

Sept.18 was an exceptionally joyful day for a quiet stretch of Hudson Street in the heart of residential Chinatown. Joined by mayor Michelle Wu and the Asian Community Development Corporation (ACDC), ...

The notion of a doppelgänger in literature has been used for centuries, with varying degrees of success. Think of the ghost ...

For Filipino American History month in October, Sampan, in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts-Boston’s ...

Sardines is a comedy show about death. A 60-minute one-man show, comedian Chris Grace presents a compelling autobiographical ...

Tet in Boston is getting bigger. This year the 37th annual Vietnamese Lunar New Year festival will be on Feb. 1, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center.

For a decade the Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations has been advocating for the civil rights ...

When Chenlu Hou says her colorful, quirky and often wildly decorated clay sculptures are inspired by Chinese folk art and cut paper, it’s at first hard to believe. But then she sits down at her studio ...

“It starts with the keffiyehs, and ends with the pride flags,” said Dr. Akiva Leibowitz during an interview with Sampan last week. A Brookline resident who has seen firsthand how even his neighbors ...

Review of The Ceremony, which ran at the Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre at Boston University. The Ceremony is a masterpiece. The sixth play in playwright Mfoniso Udofia’s nine-play cycle about three ...

The Asian American Ballet Project is transforming an ambitious dance project that expresses the emotional and personal journey of adoption across different races into a film that will be played at the ...

As a child, Peter Ng often watched dragon boats as they sped by Hong Kong’s Cheung Chau island. He was filled with awe and envy. “But I was not allowed to join a team because I was too young. I always ...