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New Recruits

Last January, an Asian face graced the most American of advertising campaigns: recruitment print ads for the United States Army.

Rhea Wong | Wed, Mar 3rd- 8:39pm | Issue 1: Premiere, Redux, Media, News & Politics

Top Three: Don Lee

The Great Gatsby 

By F. Scott Fitzgerald (Scribner Classics)

Everyone's favorite, and for good reason. It’s as close to the perfect novel — and to the Great American Novel — as anyone has ever written.

Eleven Kinds of...

Anonymous | Wed, Mar 3rd- 8:52pm | Issue 1: Premiere, Books Section

Now with More Intelligent Quote!

Gennifer Hirano strips down to reveal naked irony.

Samantha Chanse | Wed, Mar 3rd- 8:51pm | Issue 1: Premiere, Art & Design, Takeout

Fumiko Chino's Mom Has a Posse

Fumiko Chino wants to put her mom on your chest. Or, if you prefer, on your shoulder strap, the flap of your purse or wherever you like to wear button pins. For the past two years, Chino has been putting moms’ faces (her own mom and others...

Claire Light | Wed, Mar 3rd- 8:50pm | Issue 1: Premiere, Accessories, Art & Design, Takeout

Grumble, Grumble

Karen Eng can’t ignore the “grumble grumble” in her tummy. So when this zine-lover decided to start her own publication two years ago, she thought, why not have it be about her favorite subject — food? Soon after, she stir-fried and...

Jane Yin | Wed, Mar 3rd- 8:50pm | Issue 1: Premiere, Books Section, Comics, Takeout

Total Running Time

Here's what unspooled.

Anonymous | Wed, Mar 3rd- 8:49pm | Issue 1: Premiere, Film

Family Ties

Documentary filmmaker Arthur Dong has never shied away from controversial topics. In The Question of Equality: Out Rage '69, he tackled the 1969 Stonewall Riots that initiated the modern Gay Pride movement. His 1997 film, Coming Out...

Robert Ito | Wed, Mar 3rd- 8:48pm | Issue 1: Premiere, Film

GrEEtings

Ee — the San Francisco band, not the frontman for the Eels, or the drug, or the exclamation — has more heads than it knows what to do with. The current lineup, having come together to back guitarist Tobin Mori when his first group,...

Stefanie Kalem | Wed, Mar 3rd- 8:48pm | Issue 1: Premiere, Music

Strangers in a Strange Land

The man of few words is Choeun Mom, a 23-year-old Cambodian American who has sweated what he calls the "petty stuff" burglary and assault IV — all before his 16th birthday. Had he been just another person born in the United States, the...

Genevieve Roja | Wed, Mar 3rd- 8:47pm | Issue 1: Premiere, Feature, News & Politics, Social Issues

Down Under

KID KOALA is the patron saint of bedroom DJ’s — not the ones cramping their fingers perfecting a four-finger click, but the ones who find inspiration from lesser-known sources: talking parakeet records, music for plants, instructional hair...

Todd Inoue | Wed, Mar 3rd- 8:46pm | Issue 1: Premiere, Books Section, Feature, Music
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