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Its release has been delayed for several months, due to ongoing strikes and tension between Bollywood producers and India's multiplex owners.

Now we're just days away from seeing the first Yash Raj film of the year (New York) hit theaters.

The movie stars John Abraham, Katrina Kaif, and Neil Nitin Mukesh: three friends whose lives are altered by the attacks on 9/11 (all three are pictured above, from left).

Thanks to the non-profit group Minnesota Film Arts, 'New York' will have its Twin Cities premiere on June 26th at the Oak Street Cinema right off campus. Showtimes are as follows:

Friday the 26th @ 7:30PM
Saturday at 4:30 PM & 7:30 PM
Sunday at 3 PM & 6 PM
Monday-Wednesday at 7:30 PM

Watch the film's trailer here:

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Tony Award-winning playwright and Pulitzer finalist David Henry Hwang brings his latest project, Flower Drum Song, to the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts this month.

Hwang spoke to the Minnesota Daily recently about his process, his inspiration, and how he set about remaking this classic (but perhaps a bit dated) Rodgers and Hammerstein play.

Read on for the full interview. And for ticketing/pricing information, visit the Theater Mu website right here.

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ALL Assistant Professor Jason McGrath has a new book out on Stanford University Press.

It's called Postsocialist Modernity: Chinese Cinema, Literature, and Criticism in the Market Age, and it offers an examination of Chinese culture under contemporary market reforms:

Beginning in the early 1990s and on into the new century, fields such as literature and film have been fundamentally transformed by the forces of the market as China is integrated ever more closely into the world economic system. As a result, the formerly unified revolutionary culture has been changed into a pluralized state that reflects the diversity of individual experience in the reform era. New autonomous forms of culture that have arisen include avant-garde as well as commercial literature, and independent film as well as a new entertainment cinema. Chinese people find their experiences of postsocialist modernity reflected in all kinds of new cultural forms as well as critical debates that often question the direction of Chinese society in the midst of comprehensive and rapid change [Publisher].

For more on Dr. McGrath and his work, visit him online.

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