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In her new documentary, “Removed: Black Erasure in Boston,” local filmmaker and podcaster Sabrina Salvati — better known as Sabby Sabs — takes viewers through the displacement of Blacks in the city.

Fun Home is a beautiful queer memoir-musical about investigating one’s past and wrestling with the maddening slipperiness of memory. Based on Alison Bechdel’s award-winning graphic memoir, the story follows Alison’s childhood, coming of age, and coming out story as a butch lesbian, as well as her attempts to understand her closeted gay father.

A sweeping report by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund explores three “swiftly changing” Chinatowns in the Northeast: in Boston, Manhattan, and Philadelphia.

Renee Inomata, a Boston-area attorney, who was highly active ­— oftentimes behind the scenes — in the civil rights and Asian American initiatives, died on Dec. 1.

Trish Fontanilla tells the Sampan about BOSFilipinos and Filipino identity.

For Filipino American History month in October, Sampan, in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts-Boston’s Filipino Cultural Club, Hoy! Pinoy!, hosted a live panel of three Filipino American immigrants.

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), city officials and community partners put their shovels down at the parking lot on Parcel R1, which will soon become home to 110 affordable housing units, and more importantly, Boston Public Library’s permanent Chinatown branch.

T he notion of a doppelgänger in literature has been used for centuries, with varying degrees of success. Think of the ghost of Hamlet’s father, materializing to haunt the tortured Denmark Prince about crimes transpired and crimes yet to be. Consider Edgar Allan Poe’s William Wilson, in which the double trails our hapless character through his life. There is a doppelgänger in Twain’s Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Dostoyevsky’s The Double, Patricia Highsmith’s The

S ardines is a comedy show about death. A 60-minute one-man show, comedian Chris Grace presents a compelling autobiographical monologue about life and death. He shares his personal experiences with grief, deftly swerving from high-energy moments to vulnerably, sharing about losing family members, as well as his husband and Sardines director Eric Michaud’s cancer experience. These well-executed emotional fluctuations included Grace orchestrating an audience a cappella renditi

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.

Performed at The Foundry’s black box theater the weekend of Nov 8, Playfest featured nine short stories from a band of Boston-based playwrights. Each compellingly showcased the creative heft of local writers and the comedic chops of an all-Asian American and Pacific Islander cast and crew.  

Chenlu Hou , a Rhode Island resident, is an artist in residence at the Office for the Arts at Harvard for the 2025 to 2026 school year.

The Asian American Ballet Project is transforming an ambitious dance project that expresses the emotional and personal journey of cross-racial adoption into a film that will be played at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The 10-minute film, Reclamation, will screen on a loop from 3 to 8 p.m. in Calderwood Hall during the Museum’s Free First Thursday event on Dec 4.

Review of The Ceremony, which ran at the Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre at Boston University. T he Ceremony is a masterpiece. The sixth play in playwright Mfoniso Udofia’s nine-play cycle about three generations of a Nigerian-American family, The Ceremony features a wedding between a Nepali-American woman (Lumanti Shrestha, played by Mahima Saigal) and a Nigerian-American man (Ekong Ufot, played by Kadahj Bennett). Although the couple is deeply in love, their families and family

The comedy theater performance of Kim’s Convenience is adapted from the hit TV series by the same name, but perhaps it sticks a little too closely to the script.

New exhibit shines spotlight on how the Chinatown area of today was once a hub of Syrian, Lebanese immigration.

Children ate huge pink balls of cotton candy, women held their babies while nibbling on smores waffles and families and friends formed long lines for halal burgers and dishes at Halal Bites and Delights outside the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center in Roxbury on Nov. 8. Vendors included Ashur Restaurant, Chai Street, The Halal Guys, Halal Buns and Boston Dosa Party. From top row, left to right: Kids eat cotton candy; cotton candy booth; friends Khadija, Ikran, and Mis

As the cost of living in Massachusetts has risen dramatically for many residents, the Asian American Resource Workshop (AARW) has been campaigning to put rent control — which was abolished decades ago in the state — on the ballot in November of 2026. That effort, which has deadline of this Nov.19, is just one initiative the Dorchester-based nonprofit has been supporting to help Asian Americans in the Greater Boston area.

Juk Sing stands out in the Boston music scene for their unique sound: The band’s specialty is Cantopop — a sub-genre of Chinese pop music originating from Hong Kong.

Boston-based writer Ken Liu Talks About ‘All That We See Or Seem,’ Life Parallels, AI, the Future and Present