More dates and theaters for Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience, including early access screening on February 4 and partnership with StayTiny Pittsburgh in Squirrel Hill.

A day after tickets went on sale for the upcoming concert film Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience around Pittsburgh on Febreuary 6, 7, and 9, a new date and new theaters have been added.

Stray Kids : The dominATE Experience is an epic concert film featuring the global K-Pop sensation and their sold-out SoFi Stadium performances, along with behind-the-scenes footage. With more than 30 million albums sold worldwide and a fanbase that spans every continent, Stray Kids : The dominATE Experience will provide fans with a bold, large-scale theater experience, allowing them to see a glimpse behind the curtain of their favorite band.

It is scheduled to play locally, so far, at the AMC Loews Waterfront, the Cinemark theater in Robinson, and the Manor Theater in Squirrel Hill, which is partnering with StayTiny Pittsburgh for its screenings. There is also an Early Access Advance Screening on February 4 at the AMC Loews Waterfront. Tickets are available online.

2025 Japanese animated movie Zombie Land Saga: Yumeginga Paradise (劇場版「ゾンビランドサガ ゆめぎんがパラダイス」 in Pittsburgh, January 19.

The 2025 Japanese animated movie Zombie Land Saga: Yumeginga Paradise (劇場版「ゾンビランドサガ ゆめぎんがパラダイス」 will play in Pittsburgh on January 19.

At the end of the second season, in Saga City, which is about to be held at the Saga EXPO, aliens invaded the earth. In Saga, the survival of the world depends on the protagonists.

It is scheduled to play locally at the AMC Loews Waterfront, for one screening dubbed in English, and tickets are available online.

Toshiko Akiyoshi’s ‘Kogun’: Narrating a Lone Soldier’s Experience in Nō Jazz, February 24 at Pitt.

The University of Pittsburgh's Asian Studies Center will host E. Taylor Atkins and his talk "Toshiko Akiyoshi’s ‘Kogun’: Narrating a Lone Soldier’s Experience in Nō Jazz" on February 24.

In March 1974, Lt. Onoda Hiroo emerged from the jungle on the Philippine island of Lubang, where he had been hiding for almost three decades after the end of the Pacific War. He immediately became a worldwide media sensation as an exemplar of samurai-like devotion to duty. Moved by his story and the tragedy of a life wasted for a fruitless war, jazz composer Toshiko Akiyoshi dedicated a composition to him. Entitled “Kogun” (lone soldier), the piece drew on thematic and narrative elements of medieval nō theater, situated within a jazz orchestral setting, to highlight this tragedy, thereby bringing to fruition her desire to create a seamless “blend” (yūgō) of Japanese music and the jazz idiom. This presentation also blends conventional cultural historical and musical analysis to argue for the landmark status of “Kogun” within jazz history.

E. Taylor Atkins is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. His major publications include Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band’s Kogun (2024); A History of Popular Culture in Japan, From the Seventeenth Century to the Present (second edition, 2022); Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910-1945 (2010); Jazz Planet (editor, 2003); and Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan (2001), winner of the Association for Asian Studies’ John Whitney Hall Prize. He also plays bass for the Jazz in Progress Big Band and the Wild Blue Ukulele Orchestra and produces and hosts House of Funk on Hot Rocks Radio.

The talk runs from 2:00 to 3:00 pm in 4130 Posvar Hall (map).

Pirates without a Taiwanese player again.

The Pittsburgh Pirates are without a Taiwanese player again after infielder Tsung-Tse Cheng (鄭宗哲) was claimed off waivers by the Tampa Bay Rays on January 7. Cheng was designated for assignment on December 19th after the Pirates acquired additional roster players in a trade with Tampa Bay.

The Pirates signed Tsung-Tse Cheng as a 17-year-old prospect in 2019. He made his Major League debut on April 9 and played three games for the Pirates. He was the third Taiwanese player in Pittsburgh Pirates history after Wei-chung Wang in 2019 and Yu Chang in 2022. he Pirates have had numerous other Taiwanese players in the system, dating back to at least 2009 with Sheng-qin Hong, Pin-Hong Ji, and Ji-wei Xu.

If Cats Disappeared From The World by Genki Kawamura next installment of Maridon Museum Book Club, January 29.

The next installment of the Maridon Museum Book Club will feature If Cats Disappeared From The World by Genki Kawamura on January 29.

If Cats Disappeared From the World by Genki Kawamura follows a terminally ill postman who is approached by a devil offering an unusual deal: for each thing he agrees to erase from the world, he will be granted one extra day of life. As everyday objects disappear one by one, he is forced to confront what truly gives life meaning, including love, memory, forgiveness, and his bond with his beloved cat, Cabbage. The story is a gentle and emotional reflection on what we lose, what we choose to keep, and what makes life worth living.

Please join us for all our upcoming in-person Book Club meetings. To register, or if you have questions, please call 724-282-0123 or email info@maridon.org.

The meeting begins at 3:00 pm. The Maridon Museum is an Asian art museum located at 322 North Mckean St. in Butler (map). Upcoming Book Club meetings this spring will feature The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong on February 26, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park on March 27, The Color of Air by Gail Tsukiyama on April 30, and Dust Child: A Novel by Phantom Que Mai Nguyen on May 28.

Concert film Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience in Pittsburgh, from February 6.

The upcoming concert film Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience will play in Pittsburgh February 6, 7, and 9.

Stray Kids : The dominATE Experience is an epic concert film featuring the global K-Pop sensation and their sold-out SoFi Stadium performances, along with behind-the-scenes footage. With more than 30 million albums sold worldwide and a fanbase that spans every continent, Stray Kids : The dominATE Experience will provide fans with a bold, large-scale theater experience, allowing them to see a glimpse behind the curtain of their favorite band.

It is scheduled to play locally, so far, at the AMC Loews Waterfront and the Cinemark theater in Robinson, and tickets are available online.

2025 Philippine film Call Me Mother in Pittsburgh area, from January 9.

The 2025 Philippine film Call Me Mother will play in the Pittsburgh area from January 9 through 14.

Twinkle is a single queer mother whose dream of officially adopting her son gets shaken when the boy's biological mother, Mara, unexpectedly reappears.

It plays locally at the Cinemark theater in Robinson, and tickets are available online.

Numerous book discussion events scheduled at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh branches for AANHPI Heritage Month in May.

The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh has scheduled 19 book discussion and book club events across its branches for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May 2026. Books are available for checkout through the library's catalog and are available in audio or ebook formats. Links to each item in the catalog are available below.

1992 Hong Kong film Hard Boiled (辣手神) in Pittsburgh as Hong Kong Cinema Classics return, January 25, 26, and 28.

The 1992 Hong Kong film Hard Boiled (辣手神) will play in Pittsburgh as Hong Kong Cinema Classics return to local theaters this year, following a run at the Harris Theater last fall.

Mobsters are smuggling guns into Hong Kong. The police orchestrate a raid at a teahouse where an ace detective loses his partner. Meanwhile, the two main gun smugglers are having a war over territory, and a young new gun is enlisted to wipe out informants and overcome barriers to growth. The detective, acting from inside sources, gets closer to the ring leaders and eventually must work with the inside man directly. Includes "Hard Boiled: A Conversation Between John Woo and Jim Branscome" following the feature content.

It plays locally at the AMC Loews Waterfront, AMC Westmoreland in Greensburg, the Cinemark theaters in McCandless and Robinson, and the Row House Hollywood in Dormont on the 25th and 28th, and tickets are available online.

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh announces collection of "teen time" programming for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May.

The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh has announced lots of "teen time" creativity events for many of its branches for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month in May 2026, featuring programs on Japanese book binding, shadow puppets, ceramics, Korean schoolyard games, and paper folding.