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Campaign Director

SOMEWHERE BETWEEN attending the Los Angeles premiere of his latest film, Tre, and its opening a week later in Chicago, filmmaker Eric Byler managed to fit in hours of poll watching and Super Tuesday campaigning for Barack Obama.

Byler's...

Elaine Low | Fri, Mar 5th- 7:00pm | Feature, Issue 14: Spaces - Spring 2008, Film, News & Politics, Profiles

Super Komikero

AT SAN DIEGO'S Comic-Con International, the nation's largest comic book convention, Michael Paulson trembles with excitement as he watches Tony DeZuniga putting pencil to paper. "Oh my God! I'm so excited; my pants are going to explode! Nobody...

I.G. Ramirez | Fri, Mar 5th- 6:51pm | Art & Design, Front of the Book, Issue 14: Spaces - Spring 2008, Media, Profiles

Evolving Spaces

INSIDE THE TAN MINI-VAN that pulls up, littered with the trappings of typical family life, sits a man in a self-styled blue Jetsons shirt, with a white collar that extends upward from the solar plexus and ends in lapels that hover like wings...

Melanie | Fri, Mar 5th- 6:49pm | Art & Design, Front of the Book, Issue 14: Spaces - Spring 2008, Health & Environment, Profiles
Good Cop, Bad Cop

Good Cop, Bad Cop

WRITER ED LIN has a knack for writing about characters that inhabit the underside of the Asian American Dream. In his first novel, Waylaid, the main character is a 12-year-old Chinese kid who helps his parents rent sleazy motel rooms to...

Neela Banerjee | Thu, Mar 4th- 11:53pm | Books Section, Issue 13: Hybrid - Winter 2007, Profiles
Kip Fulbeck

Kip Fulbeck

WHO BETTER to be our Hybrid issue cover centaur-the mythical half-man, half horse-than writer, filmmaker, musician, professor and all-around thought-provoker Kip Fulbeck. Along with his Cantonese, English, Irish and Welsh background, Fulbeck...

Melanie | Thu, Mar 4th- 11:48pm | Books Section, Feature, Issue 13: Hybrid - Winter 2007, Profiles, Race
Decoding Joema

Decoding Joema

JOEMCA IS a musical Rubix cube. Flip him one way, and he's a groupie-inducing rock star with a brooding onstage persona and a resoundingly deep voice set to catchy electronic beats. Flip him another, and he's a pensive, classically-trained...

Dakota Kim | Fri, Feb 19th- 6:22pm | Issue 13: Hybrid - Winter 2007, Front of the Book, Music, Profiles
Just Two Sticks and String

Just Two Sticks and String

THE POST-DOT-COM fairly tale may well be the blogger with a book deal. From snarky political commentary to salacious "memoirs" that flirt with both fact and fiction, scores of bloggers have gotten the book deal boon-with mixed results at the...

Rebecca | Fri, Feb 19th- 6:49pm | Issue 13: Hybrid - Winter 2007, Front of the Book, Media, Profiles

Decoding Joema

JOEMCA IS a musical Rubix cube. Flip him one way, and he's a groupie-inducing rock star with a brooding onstage persona and a resoundingly deep voice set to catchy electronic beats. Flip him another, and he's a pensive, classically-trained...

Dakota Kim | Thu, Mar 4th- 11:43pm | Issue 13: Hybrid - Winter 2007, Front of the Book, Music, Profiles

Fire Breather

There’s something about a woman with a blowtorch that grabs my attention. The bright rod of orange and blue flame reflected in protective glasses, the steady roar of gas, the occasional faint yet pugnacious whiff of sulfur—...

Ravi Chandra | Wed, Mar 3rd- 10:18pm | Art & Design, Issue 11: Faith - Spring 2007, Front of the Book, Profiles

Humble Creator

COMIC BOOK CREATOR Gene Luen Yang is best known for his retelling of the Chinese trickster tale of the Monkey King in American Bom Chinese (First Second Books), the first graphic novel ever nominated for the American Book Award.

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Momo Chang | Thu, Jul 14th- 4:08pm | Art & Design, Books Section, Issue 11: Faith - Spring 2007, Profiles
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