XY A GAY MAGAZINE THAT TELLS IT STRAIGHT S.F. publication gains national recognition with a hip focus that stays true to its teen audience
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WHAT WAS A GIRL to do? According to Arlene Blum’s immigrant Russian grandparents, not much. As prohibitive as things might have been for others growing up in the 1950s Midwest,…
SLOW RUSH TO FAME Jackie Chan’s star finally rises in West
“I Am Jackie Chan.” In Asia, the title of the film star’s autobiography would be a simple assertion. Chan has made and remade Hong Kong film history in terms of narrative, action, industry…
BEARER OF GOOD FORTUNE Architecture graduate shelves degree to build acting career in Hong Kong
ONE YEAR AGO, Dan Wu returned to his homeland of Hong Kong to become a star. Well, not exactly his homeland: Wu is a Bay Area boy, Berkeley-born, Orinda-raised and…
IN SEARCH FOR SELF For Asian American Eric Liu, looking back is a big step forward
I AM FOLLOWING Eric Liu because I am Chinese. . . Naturally, I’m oversimplifying matters. Liu is promoting his first book, “The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker, ”…
HIS CANDID CAMERA “Truman” director exposes media’s mighty influence
“The Truman Show” gives off a surreal pastel Technicolor, like the eerie glow that emanates from a TV set in an unlit living room. That must have been the same…
TRADITION OF SERVICE She didn’t set out to found the Links’ first West Coast chapter, but Loraine Rickmond, 96, had a ball in the process
LORAINE RICKMOND can’t sit still for long. A vibrant, irrepressible energy resonates from her small frame, which osteoporosis has shrunken a couple of inches to under 5 feet tall. Fortunately,…
At 71, professor is still passionate about brain research
BERKELEY, Calif. _ Peek into the University of California-Berkeley’s Wheeler Auditorium during Integrative Biology 131 and you might catch professor Marion Diamond as she turns her palms toward herself, fingertips…
‘Eastern Standard Time’ explores Asian pop influence
Who coined the term “electronic superhighway?” Why did Filipinos invent yo-yos? Did I.M. Pei know his Steely Dan from his Steppenwolf when planners asked him to design Cleveland’s Rock and…