After a bruising year of contract fights, emergency fixes, and plenty of online outrage, Playland Park in Rye is gearing up to reopen for the 2026 season, with county officials promising that the park ...

Playland Park, in Rye, is slated to have a pre-season opening weekend on May 16-17, 2026, and a grand opening Saturday, May 23. It's scheduled to be the park’s 98 th season and brings the anticipated ...

Ballistic Moon officially closes its doors after years of effort as new paperwork finally confirms the outcome for the ...

Typically, in New Jersey, the peak bloom happens between the second and third week of April. In recent years, New Jersey has seen the cherry blossoms' peak bloom occur between the end of the first ...

A warning, this story contains strong and graphic language. It’s early in the morning on the first day of 2026. A Boise ...

Ringwood State Park in Ringwood, New Jersey, rewards whatever effort it takes to get there with over 5,000 acres of mountains ...

Ringwood State Park in Ringwood, New Jersey, is exactly that kind of place, sprawling across more than 5,000 acres of northern New Jersey wilderness like it’s got nothing to prove and all the time in ...

The rising anime filmmaker discusses how his hometown’s vanishing seaside inspired his Berlinale competition entry ‘A New Dawn,’ the concept of “Shuhari” and creating handmade art in a digital world.

Premiering in Berlin's competition, Yoshitoshi Shinomiya's feature centers on three friends who band together when a fireworks factory in their hometown is to be destroyed by the local government. By ...

The only animated entry in this year's Berlin competition, the film marks a stunning directorial debut for Yoshitoshi Shinomiya, but its narrative fizzles beneath the spectacle. The protagonists of “A ...

Berlin: "Your Name" filmmaker Makoto Shinkai's protégé, Yoshitoshi Shinomiya, delivers a feature debut that fails to bring its audience along for the ride, both in terms of animation and story. The ...