DC’s Stargirl this week closed out the “Infinity Inc.” two-parter that hit pause on Season 3’s murder mystery storyline. What fun Easter eggs were to be found amid the otherwise verrry serious episode?
I have probably said before on these here pages that I am no great fan of “mindscape” episodes that deposit characters into other planes of existence to sort through their stuff. Between Stargirl, The Flash and Titans, to name just DC series, such episodes seem to come at a pretty steady clip.
More from TVLineRatings: Stargirl Audience Eyes Season High, Survivor Leads WednesdayNancy Drew to End...
I have probably said before on these here pages that I am no great fan of “mindscape” episodes that deposit characters into other planes of existence to sort through their stuff. Between Stargirl, The Flash and Titans, to name just DC series, such episodes seem to come at a pretty steady clip.
More from TVLineRatings: Stargirl Audience Eyes Season High, Survivor Leads WednesdayNancy Drew to End...
- 10/27/2022
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Afp/Getty Images President Obama on May 3.
In 2008, I wrote a column suggesting that if as Toni Morrison said, Bill Clinton was “the first black president,” Barack Obama — the first actual black occupant of the White House — might well be seen as the first Asian American president.
I pointed to his birth and childhood in Hawaii, America’s only state with a majority Asian population; his years spent living in Jakarta with his Asian stepfather Lolo Soetero and half-sister Maya...
In 2008, I wrote a column suggesting that if as Toni Morrison said, Bill Clinton was “the first black president,” Barack Obama — the first actual black occupant of the White House — might well be seen as the first Asian American president.
I pointed to his birth and childhood in Hawaii, America’s only state with a majority Asian population; his years spent living in Jakarta with his Asian stepfather Lolo Soetero and half-sister Maya...
- 5/4/2012
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
20th Century Fox / Everett Harry Shum Jr. and Jenna Ushkowitz on ‘Glee.’
When I was young, I remember my mom telling me once that she really had only four big hopes for me. “You do these four things and I will be happy,” she said. “One, practice piano. Two, go to a good college. Three, become a doctor. And four, marry a nice Taiwanese girl.”
Thirty years later, and I’m two for four. I reminded her of this other...
When I was young, I remember my mom telling me once that she really had only four big hopes for me. “You do these four things and I will be happy,” she said. “One, practice piano. Two, go to a good college. Three, become a doctor. And four, marry a nice Taiwanese girl.”
Thirty years later, and I’m two for four. I reminded her of this other...
- 4/16/2012
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Getty Images Jeremy Lin #17 of the New York Knicks in action against the Portland Trail Blazers on March 14.
Let’s say you’re a budding superstar in the midst of the most important game-stretch of your life. Now let’s say that you suffer an injury that requires season-ending surgery, ending your golden run and threatening your luckless team’s slim chances at the playoffs. What do you do next?
Well, if you’re Jeremy Lin, you hold a public...
Let’s say you’re a budding superstar in the midst of the most important game-stretch of your life. Now let’s say that you suffer an injury that requires season-ending surgery, ending your golden run and threatening your luckless team’s slim chances at the playoffs. What do you do next?
Well, if you’re Jeremy Lin, you hold a public...
- 4/3/2012
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Epa New York Knicks star Jeremy Lin addresses the media to announce he will miss six weeks with a torn meniscus.
If the Internet had rafters, they’d have been rattling this weekend, when the dreadful announcement went out that Knicks phenom Jeremy Lin – a forlorn presence on the bench the past few games – had suffered a minute but significant tear of the meniscus in his knee, a hardcourt war wound that would require surgery to repair.
Surgery that’ll take six weeks to heal.
If the Internet had rafters, they’d have been rattling this weekend, when the dreadful announcement went out that Knicks phenom Jeremy Lin – a forlorn presence on the bench the past few games – had suffered a minute but significant tear of the meniscus in his knee, a hardcourt war wound that would require surgery to repair.
Surgery that’ll take six weeks to heal.
- 4/2/2012
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Lionsgate A scene from “The Hunger Games.”
Hey, did you know that Suzanne Collins’s apocal-epic Ya trilogy “The Hunger Games” is set to hit the big screen this weekend? Not a surprise? Maybe it’s because, you know, it’s all anyone’s been talking about for pretty much forever.
What’s ironic — and by ironic, we mean “Alanis Morisettian irony,” e.g., not actually ironic — is how saturated the conversation around “Hunger Games” is with the language of one-on-one,...
Hey, did you know that Suzanne Collins’s apocal-epic Ya trilogy “The Hunger Games” is set to hit the big screen this weekend? Not a surprise? Maybe it’s because, you know, it’s all anyone’s been talking about for pretty much forever.
What’s ironic — and by ironic, we mean “Alanis Morisettian irony,” e.g., not actually ironic — is how saturated the conversation around “Hunger Games” is with the language of one-on-one,...
- 3/23/2012
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Debbie Lum Image from “Seeking Asian Female.”
Five years ago, Debbie Lum set out to investigate a phenomenon that she says has “haunted” her — and some other Asian women — her entire life.
“I’m talking about yellow fever!” she says. “If you’re Asian, you know exactly what I mean. It’s Asian American Issues 101.”
If you’re not Asian, what Lum is referring to is the targeted attraction that some non-Asian men have toward Asian women — an obsession, in some cases,...
Five years ago, Debbie Lum set out to investigate a phenomenon that she says has “haunted” her — and some other Asian women — her entire life.
“I’m talking about yellow fever!” she says. “If you’re Asian, you know exactly what I mean. It’s Asian American Issues 101.”
If you’re not Asian, what Lum is referring to is the targeted attraction that some non-Asian men have toward Asian women — an obsession, in some cases,...
- 3/12/2012
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Jeff Yang The Domo Taco Truck.
On a startlingly sunny winter day in the Flatiron District, the walking traffic along lower Park Ave. has slowed to a crawl. The culprit: A knot of hungry folks on lunch break who’ve congregated around a bright yellow-green van parked in a choice slot between 23rd and 24th. Some pedestrians grumble as they’re forced to go around — but every so often, one takes a peek at the menu and joins the throng.
On a startlingly sunny winter day in the Flatiron District, the walking traffic along lower Park Ave. has slowed to a crawl. The culprit: A knot of hungry folks on lunch break who’ve congregated around a bright yellow-green van parked in a choice slot between 23rd and 24th. Some pedestrians grumble as they’re forced to go around — but every so often, one takes a peek at the menu and joins the throng.
- 3/5/2012
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
NBC George Takei on “The Celebrity Apprentice.”
Hello there! For all of you feeling a little bit Linundated by all the hoops coverage here recently, let’s take a little break from Jeremania to recap the premiere of the fifth season of “Celebrity Apprentice”!
You may remember Donald Trump from such other reality shows as “The Apprentice” (seasons one through six) and “The Race for the Republican Nomination.” Well, he’s back in full effect here, pursed lips, furrowed brows,...
Hello there! For all of you feeling a little bit Linundated by all the hoops coverage here recently, let’s take a little break from Jeremania to recap the premiere of the fifth season of “Celebrity Apprentice”!
You may remember Donald Trump from such other reality shows as “The Apprentice” (seasons one through six) and “The Race for the Republican Nomination.” Well, he’s back in full effect here, pursed lips, furrowed brows,...
- 2/21/2012
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Getty Images Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks drives against Jason Kapono and Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers at Madison Square Garden on February 10, 2012 in New York City.
When The Garden is full and the right moment hits, it sounds like a riverbed canyon during spring thaw. The roar is deafening, and it rebounds from wall to wall, off the rafters, and into your face with tangible force.
The first time you felt that sonic boom was...
When The Garden is full and the right moment hits, it sounds like a riverbed canyon during spring thaw. The roar is deafening, and it rebounds from wall to wall, off the rafters, and into your face with tangible force.
The first time you felt that sonic boom was...
- 2/11/2012
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Getty Images Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks brings the ball up the floor against the Washington Wizards at Verizon Center on February 8, 2012 in Washington, D.C.
At the Ainsworth, a tony sports lounge on Manhattan’s Lower West Side, two thirds of the club’s screens are tuned to the Hoyas-’Cuse game. But to a delirious clutch of fans at one end of the long bar — my fellow members of the Harvard Asian American Alumni Alliance — the...
At the Ainsworth, a tony sports lounge on Manhattan’s Lower West Side, two thirds of the club’s screens are tuned to the Hoyas-’Cuse game. But to a delirious clutch of fans at one end of the long bar — my fellow members of the Harvard Asian American Alumni Alliance — the...
- 2/10/2012
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Getty Images South Korean girl group Girls’ Generation perform on stage during the 21st High1 Seoul Music Awards at Olympic gymnasium on January 19, 2012 in Seoul, South Korea.
Last week, K-pop supergroup Girls’ Generation got an unprecedented U.S. television showcase on “Live! With Kelly,” the Reegeless morning show currently featuring Kelly Ripa and a revolving-door series of daily guest hosts. For those who caught it, the segment offered up one of television’s rare magic moments — not during the musical performance itself,...
Last week, K-pop supergroup Girls’ Generation got an unprecedented U.S. television showcase on “Live! With Kelly,” the Reegeless morning show currently featuring Kelly Ripa and a revolving-door series of daily guest hosts. For those who caught it, the segment offered up one of television’s rare magic moments — not during the musical performance itself,...
- 2/6/2012
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Everett Bruce Lee in ‘Enter the Dragon,’ 1973.
“From my point of view, the 20th century gave us just two icons who rose above time, space and race: There was Muhammad Ali, and there was Bruce Lee,” says documentary filmmaker Pete McCormack, explaining the rationale behind his two most recent projects, the feature documentary “Facing Ali,” shortlisted for the Academy Award in 2010, and its new followup “I Am Bruce Lee,” which hits 160 theaters across the country for special screenings on February...
“From my point of view, the 20th century gave us just two icons who rose above time, space and race: There was Muhammad Ali, and there was Bruce Lee,” says documentary filmmaker Pete McCormack, explaining the rationale behind his two most recent projects, the feature documentary “Facing Ali,” shortlisted for the Academy Award in 2010, and its new followup “I Am Bruce Lee,” which hits 160 theaters across the country for special screenings on February...
- 1/30/2012
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Associated Press Philip Schiller, Apples senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, introduces iBooks 2 for iPad, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012 in New York. IBooks 2 will be able to display books with videos and other interactive features.
When my older son Hudson started third grade this year, the volume of his homework took a quantum leap upward. And by volume, I mean the sheer physical volume: He went from carrying a folder, a pencil case and a marble-toned black-and-white notebook to a daily burden of textbooks,...
When my older son Hudson started third grade this year, the volume of his homework took a quantum leap upward. And by volume, I mean the sheer physical volume: He went from carrying a folder, a pencil case and a marble-toned black-and-white notebook to a daily burden of textbooks,...
- 1/21/2012
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Reuters Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee (R) is interviewed by reporters at 2012 CES.
The Titans of Consumer Tech
The annual ring-in-the-new-year ritual of CES (International Consumer Electronics Show) is over, and the temporary hive of gadget-obsessed individuals it gathers has dispersed from Sin City to far-flung reaches of the world. As they shake off the fairy dust (and recover from their massive collective hangovers), the question everyone asks themselves each year comes up once more: Was this trip really necessary?...
The Titans of Consumer Tech
The annual ring-in-the-new-year ritual of CES (International Consumer Electronics Show) is over, and the temporary hive of gadget-obsessed individuals it gathers has dispersed from Sin City to far-flung reaches of the world. As they shake off the fairy dust (and recover from their massive collective hangovers), the question everyone asks themselves each year comes up once more: Was this trip really necessary?...
- 1/17/2012
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Gurinder Osan/Associated Press A DataWind representative displays the supercheap ‘Aakash’ Tablet computers during its launch in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011.
Is India’s $50 tablet really getting shelved?
An anonymously-sourced article on the website of leading Indian newsweekly India Today has sparked rumors that the sub-$50 Aakash Ubislate tablet — covered in last week’s Tao Jones — might be pulled from the market. The story, by Sanjay Singh, claimed that the Indian government’s Ministry of Human Resource Development was...
Is India’s $50 tablet really getting shelved?
An anonymously-sourced article on the website of leading Indian newsweekly India Today has sparked rumors that the sub-$50 Aakash Ubislate tablet — covered in last week’s Tao Jones — might be pulled from the market. The story, by Sanjay Singh, claimed that the Indian government’s Ministry of Human Resource Development was...
- 1/14/2012
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Getty Indian students use the newly launched ‘Aakash’ computer tablet in New Delhi on October 5, 2011.
The annual gadget bacchanalia known as CES kicks off next Tuesday in Vegas, but as has been the case for the past decade, the most important new product in consumer electronics won’t be there.
This year’s star no-show, however, wasn’t invented by a certain Cupertino fruit factory, but by the obscure Canadian startup Datawind. It’s called the Aakash Ubislate 7, and its...
The annual gadget bacchanalia known as CES kicks off next Tuesday in Vegas, but as has been the case for the past decade, the most important new product in consumer electronics won’t be there.
This year’s star no-show, however, wasn’t invented by a certain Cupertino fruit factory, but by the obscure Canadian startup Datawind. It’s called the Aakash Ubislate 7, and its...
- 1/8/2012
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Two-thousand-double-one came in with the roar of Tiger Mommy and the tragic devastation of Japan’s tsunami. As it continued, the NBA waved farewell to Yao Ming, Gary Locke took a plane to Beijing — and Asians in the library made their cell phones ring. As 2012 begins, here are Tao Jones’s picks for the best, the worst and the most memorable events, individuals and phenomena of the year that was.
People of the Year: Angry men and brainy girls, diplomats,...
People of the Year: Angry men and brainy girls, diplomats,...
- 12/31/2011
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Everett Collection Scene from “A Few Good Men,” 1992, with Jack Nicholson
Last weekend, the remaining soldiers deployed as part of U.S. combat missions in Iraq came home to the welcoming arms of their families. But tens of thousands of American troops remain in the field in Afghanistan. And, as the longest war in our nation’s history continues into the new year, commentators are noting unsettling parallels between the controversial deaths of two soldiers fighting in that campaign — both...
Last weekend, the remaining soldiers deployed as part of U.S. combat missions in Iraq came home to the welcoming arms of their families. But tens of thousands of American troops remain in the field in Afghanistan. And, as the longest war in our nation’s history continues into the new year, commentators are noting unsettling parallels between the controversial deaths of two soldiers fighting in that campaign — both...
- 12/27/2011
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
AP In this March 1979 photo from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency, distributed by Korea News Service, leader Kim Jong Il gives advice at the shooting of “An Jung Geun Avenges Hirobumi Ito,” a narrative film.
Kim Jong Il, who passed away Saturday after 14 years of absolute rule over the “hermit kingdom” of North Korea, will be remembered by history as an idiosyncratic despot and a capricious threat to world peace, but his personal eccentricities also made him...
Kim Jong Il, who passed away Saturday after 14 years of absolute rule over the “hermit kingdom” of North Korea, will be remembered by history as an idiosyncratic despot and a capricious threat to world peace, but his personal eccentricities also made him...
- 12/19/2011
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Warner Bros/courtesy Everett C Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, from left: Noomi Rapace, Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law in “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.”
The next new “Sherlock Holmes” movie is out, and if you loved the first film, it’s more of what you loved — more slam-bang Victorian action, more whimsically anachronistic dialogue, more sly homoerotic innuendo and of course, more Robert Downey Jr. doing what he does best, which is to say, upend every convention...
The next new “Sherlock Holmes” movie is out, and if you loved the first film, it’s more of what you loved — more slam-bang Victorian action, more whimsically anachronistic dialogue, more sly homoerotic innuendo and of course, more Robert Downey Jr. doing what he does best, which is to say, upend every convention...
- 12/19/2011
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Heather Yang Christmas in the columnist’s (pictured at right) household.
You know the holiday season has officially begun when the tabs begin dishing up piping hot servings of outrage over the so-called War on Christmas. This week saw the battle lines move to a new front: Rockland County, New York, where a second-grade teacher at the George W. Miller Elementary School in Nanuet committed what some call an unforgivable act of Yuletide sacrilege.
Leatrice Ann Eng was leading her...
You know the holiday season has officially begun when the tabs begin dishing up piping hot servings of outrage over the so-called War on Christmas. This week saw the battle lines move to a new front: Rockland County, New York, where a second-grade teacher at the George W. Miller Elementary School in Nanuet committed what some call an unforgivable act of Yuletide sacrilege.
Leatrice Ann Eng was leading her...
- 12/10/2011
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Jeff Yang Tao Jones columnist Jeff Yang’s son Hudson and the family’s dog Shaohu.
We’re immersed these days in such a sea of information that it shouldn’t really be a surprise when random media flotsam seems to drift together into a theme — but occasionally, patterns emerge that feel like someone’s sending you a sign.
On Thanksgiving, we had an all-day dose of the National Dog Show, which my older son refused to turn off in favor of football,...
We’re immersed these days in such a sea of information that it shouldn’t really be a surprise when random media flotsam seems to drift together into a theme — but occasionally, patterns emerge that feel like someone’s sending you a sign.
On Thanksgiving, we had an all-day dose of the National Dog Show, which my older son refused to turn off in favor of football,...
- 12/3/2011
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Bloomberg News New York City Comptroller John Liu in 2010
A councilman from Queens, an Asian immigrant who’s traveled the striver’s path to success, rises to New York’s political heights with the support of a multicultural coalition of voters. His reformist zeal and unique ability to unite fragmented factions — blacks, Latinos, Asians and labor — make him a media darling and a serious contender for what some call the second-most powerful office in America: mayor of New York. But...
A councilman from Queens, an Asian immigrant who’s traveled the striver’s path to success, rises to New York’s political heights with the support of a multicultural coalition of voters. His reformist zeal and unique ability to unite fragmented factions — blacks, Latinos, Asians and labor — make him a media darling and a serious contender for what some call the second-most powerful office in America: mayor of New York. But...
- 11/25/2011
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Chef, culinary scholar and blogger Kian Lam Kho
Immigrant Asian families sometimes have a hard time understanding American holidays. Halloween is a particularly puzzling–why the heck would you waste a night of studying sending your kids out to beg strangers for tooth-rotting candy in an outfit they’re only going to wear once? But they tend to slide right into Thanksgiving. It’s a holiday about successfully surviving in a weird new land, after all — and its religious underpinnings...
Immigrant Asian families sometimes have a hard time understanding American holidays. Halloween is a particularly puzzling–why the heck would you waste a night of studying sending your kids out to beg strangers for tooth-rotting candy in an outfit they’re only going to wear once? But they tend to slide right into Thanksgiving. It’s a holiday about successfully surviving in a weird new land, after all — and its religious underpinnings...
- 11/20/2011
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Reuters Executive Director of the NBA player’s association Billy Hunter speaks as President of the NBA Players Association Derek Fisher of the Los Angeles Lakers looks down during a news conference announcing the players’ rejection of the league’s latest offer on Monday and the process to begin disbanding the union.
Is the NBA lockout headed for court? What does Adele’s doctor have to say about vocal cord surgery? And can rising income really buy happiness? A look...
Is the NBA lockout headed for court? What does Adele’s doctor have to say about vocal cord surgery? And can rising income really buy happiness? A look...
- 11/14/2011
- by Christopher John Farley
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Courtesy of Crypton Future Media Vocaloid and global singing star Miku Hatsune
Back at the dawn of the Nineties, platinum-minting producer Maurice Starr made an all-too-candid boast to a reporter for Entertainment Weekly: “I think I can make anybody a star.”
It was hard to argue with him at the time: He’d ignited a pair of pop supernovas — the boy band New Edition, and their color-inverted clones New Kids on the Block — and he was hardly the first Svengali...
Back at the dawn of the Nineties, platinum-minting producer Maurice Starr made an all-too-candid boast to a reporter for Entertainment Weekly: “I think I can make anybody a star.”
It was hard to argue with him at the time: He’d ignited a pair of pop supernovas — the boy band New Edition, and their color-inverted clones New Kids on the Block — and he was hardly the first Svengali...
- 11/11/2011
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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The idea behind the third (and counting) installment in Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg’s delirious Harold and Kumar series seems to have been the following: Take virtually every staple genre of the Hollywood cinematic experience — buddy flick, check! Road movie, caper pic, fish-out-of-water thriller, culture-clash comedy, done! Showbiz musical spectacular? Feel-good holiday special? Yep, we’ve got that! — and throw ‘em in a BlendTec. Add Neil Patrick Harris and a double fistful of other mind-altering substances. Then hit...
The idea behind the third (and counting) installment in Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg’s delirious Harold and Kumar series seems to have been the following: Take virtually every staple genre of the Hollywood cinematic experience — buddy flick, check! Road movie, caper pic, fish-out-of-water thriller, culture-clash comedy, done! Showbiz musical spectacular? Feel-good holiday special? Yep, we’ve got that! — and throw ‘em in a BlendTec. Add Neil Patrick Harris and a double fistful of other mind-altering substances. Then hit...
- 11/4/2011
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Apple’s Siri system can answer spoken restaurant requests.
If, as Laurie Anderson sang, language is a virus, then English is the common cold.
Already ubiquitous — English has an estimated 1.5 billion speakers — it’s only growing more so, given its status in fast-growing emerging markets. Especially the fastest-growing and emerging-est market of all, China, where it was estimated last year by the China Daily newspaper that up to 400 million people are currently actively learning English, or nearly a third of the population.
If, as Laurie Anderson sang, language is a virus, then English is the common cold.
Already ubiquitous — English has an estimated 1.5 billion speakers — it’s only growing more so, given its status in fast-growing emerging markets. Especially the fastest-growing and emerging-est market of all, China, where it was estimated last year by the China Daily newspaper that up to 400 million people are currently actively learning English, or nearly a third of the population.
- 10/29/2011
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Everett Richie Rich, Dollar the Dog, 1980-82 in “Richie Rich” (1980-82)
When should you tell kids that they’re rich? Did that weird smoking ad actually boost Herman Cain’s cash haul? And is Battlefield 3 winning the videogame war against the Call of Duty series? A look at the most interesting posts from the Wall Street Journal blogs.
When to Tell the Kids They’re Rich: For most parents, ” the talk” is about the birds and bees. For the wealthy,...
When should you tell kids that they’re rich? Did that weird smoking ad actually boost Herman Cain’s cash haul? And is Battlefield 3 winning the videogame war against the Call of Duty series? A look at the most interesting posts from the Wall Street Journal blogs.
When to Tell the Kids They’re Rich: For most parents, ” the talk” is about the birds and bees. For the wealthy,...
- 10/28/2011
- by Christopher John Farley
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
AMC Image from “Hell on Wheels.”
The tale of the building of the transcontinental railroad, the steel band that wed the metropolitan East to the frontier West, is among the greatest in American history.
“It was the moon launch of its time,” says Chuck Vollan, assistant professor of history at South Dakota State University — an epic feat of engineering, human effort and national resolve. William G. Thomas, history professor at University of Nebraska and author of the new book “The Iron Way,...
The tale of the building of the transcontinental railroad, the steel band that wed the metropolitan East to the frontier West, is among the greatest in American history.
“It was the moon launch of its time,” says Chuck Vollan, assistant professor of history at South Dakota State University — an epic feat of engineering, human effort and national resolve. William G. Thomas, history professor at University of Nebraska and author of the new book “The Iron Way,...
- 10/26/2011
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Getty
What really happened in the fiery accident that took racing driver Dan Wheldon life? How do you win the clutter wars on the homefront? And what is the Hulk’s role in Occupy Wall Street? A look at the most interesting posts from the Wall Street Journal blogs.
Two-Time Indy 500 Winner Dan Wheldon Dies In Vegas Crash: Racing driver Dan Wheldon, who racked up 16 wins in a decade-long IndyCar career, died today in a fiery crash involving 15 cars at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
What really happened in the fiery accident that took racing driver Dan Wheldon life? How do you win the clutter wars on the homefront? And what is the Hulk’s role in Occupy Wall Street? A look at the most interesting posts from the Wall Street Journal blogs.
Two-Time Indy 500 Winner Dan Wheldon Dies In Vegas Crash: Racing driver Dan Wheldon, who racked up 16 wins in a decade-long IndyCar career, died today in a fiery crash involving 15 cars at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
- 10/17/2011
- by Christopher John Farley
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Jeff Yang Three Treasures Rice
It was my mother’s birthday this week, which was less of an occasion than one might guess; no fan of commemorating the advance of time, she’s taken in recent years to purposely making travel plans in order to shield against the threat of unwanted festivities.
This year was no different: She spent the weekend out of town with my sister and all the grandchildren (my two kids and my sister’s two) and,...
It was my mother’s birthday this week, which was less of an occasion than one might guess; no fan of commemorating the advance of time, she’s taken in recent years to purposely making travel plans in order to shield against the threat of unwanted festivities.
This year was no different: She spent the weekend out of town with my sister and all the grandchildren (my two kids and my sister’s two) and,...
- 10/15/2011
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Reuters
Why are the Westboro Baptist Church funeral protesters back in the news? How did Asian philosophy influence Steve Jobs? And how high is U.S. unemployment now? A look at some of the most interesting posts from the Wall Street Journal blogs.
Funeral Protesters May Be Headed Back to High Court: Do you recall the Westboro Baptist Church funeral protesters, who often targets military funerals where they condemn gays, Catholics, Jews and others? The Supreme Court in March ruled...
Why are the Westboro Baptist Church funeral protesters back in the news? How did Asian philosophy influence Steve Jobs? And how high is U.S. unemployment now? A look at some of the most interesting posts from the Wall Street Journal blogs.
Funeral Protesters May Be Headed Back to High Court: Do you recall the Westboro Baptist Church funeral protesters, who often targets military funerals where they condemn gays, Catholics, Jews and others? The Supreme Court in March ruled...
- 10/7/2011
- by Christopher John Farley
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images A man uses an iPhone to photograph tributes to Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs outside The Apple Store in Covent Garden on Oct. 6, 2011 in London.
Moments after his passing was announced, the world had already begun to mourn Steve Jobs — a man who changed the world as often as some people change their hairstyles.
He’s being celebrated as an innovator, a visionary and a revolutionary. Yet in his life, critics labeled him a self-involved egotist,...
Moments after his passing was announced, the world had already begun to mourn Steve Jobs — a man who changed the world as often as some people change their hairstyles.
He’s being celebrated as an innovator, a visionary and a revolutionary. Yet in his life, critics labeled him a self-involved egotist,...
- 10/6/2011
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Fox Harry Shum Jr. as Mike Chang in “Glee.”
Count me among the legions of Asian American Gleeks who’ve been irritably waiting for show producers Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan to do something interesting with Harry Shum Jr.’s peripatetic footballer-turned-dance machine, Mike Chang. Really, RyBrI: After two years of back-bench toil as the mostly mute “Other Asian,” there isn’t a performer on the show who’s earned a turn in the spotlight more than Harry.
Count me among the legions of Asian American Gleeks who’ve been irritably waiting for show producers Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan to do something interesting with Harry Shum Jr.’s peripatetic footballer-turned-dance machine, Mike Chang. Really, RyBrI: After two years of back-bench toil as the mostly mute “Other Asian,” there isn’t a performer on the show who’s earned a turn in the spotlight more than Harry.
- 10/4/2011
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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