Storytelling in Celebrity Village
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Left to right: Ben Fong-Torres, Sydnie Kohara, and Dale Minami.
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Almost Famous? On July 5, Sydnie Kohara hosted a magazine-signing party for her attorney and good friend, Dale Minami, one of People Magazine’s Bachelors of the Year. After covering business news around the globe (Asia, NY, London), Kohara, an anchor for ABC’s KGO-TV Channel 7 for over seven years, returned to San Francisco last year to host the technology and finance show CNET News.com, which airs nationwide. Many well wishers were in attendance including Ben Fong-Torres, who understands being Almost Famous (a movie that featured a young Fong-Torres during his fledging years at Rolling Stone Magazine). Fong-Torres is busy these days as the VP of Content at Collabrys, Inc. in S. San Francisco and doing curatorial work for the new library & archives project at the Rock & Roll Museum in Cleveland.
Historian at Work:
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Author Iris Chang
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Author Iris Chang is working on her third book, History of Chinese in America, a narrative historical piece chronicling 150 years of Chinese Americans in the United States. In the past two years, she has read through thousands of documents and interviewed hundreds of people in search of the facts. In her quest, Chang was surprised at the anger and outrage within the Chinese community. “The Wen Ho Lee case was a catalyst nationwide, and Chinese Americans feel betrayed. They’ve worked their whole life, played by the rules, have been passed up for promotions, etc. and were angered with [Lee] accused of spying,” reports Chang. Her first book, Threat of the Silk Work, published in 1995, was the precursor to the Wen Ho Lee case. The book narrates the true story of rocket scientist Tsien Hseu-shen, who was falsely accused by the U.S. government of being a Communist Party member. She followed that book with The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, published in 1997, detailing the atrocities of more than 300,000 Chinese civilians in Nanking, China during the War. For History of Chinese in America, Chang is still looking for people who feel they have important stories to tell, such as “Parachute” kids, those who have suffered discrimination and other issues that have not been fully discussed. Please email her at www.irischang@aol.com.
Upcoming: Catch the exclusive engagement of The Party Crashers, starring Burt Bulos (Beverly Hills Ninja, E.R.), at the Parkway Theater in Oakland from July 27 – Aug. 2, showing daily at 9:45 p.m. On July 24, look for Eric Kan, as a recurring character – Leo, on the soap opera Days of Our Lives. And be sure to go by the Crossing Bridges exhibit, a visual art exhibit featuring local community artists from the Asian American Women Artists Association, at MarketWatch.com, Inc.’s corporate headquarters at 825 Battery Street in San Francisco. Visitors will be treated to original art and sculpture, as well as information about the individual artists featured.
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