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Steven Kam celebrated his 27th birthday today. We surprised him at his favorite hangout, Lucy’s Teahouse in Mountain View, following his stint as substitute instructor at Stanford Wushu class (the normal instructors were on vacation or playing hooky!). Felicia organized the party, which featured his friends from college, work, and…

This past Saturday, award-winning violinist Bin Huang performed Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 with the Palo Alto Philharmonic. Yesterday, she accompanied Eric to Stanford University to make photographs for her upcoming CD. I went along for the ride, documenting the portrait session on a very chilly Monday…

Last summer there was an invasion of wasps when a queen decided to set up her nest in the eaves at my place. I rarely ventured out to the balcony until they left when Old Man Winter arrived in the Bay Area. A few weeks ago, I noticed the appearance…

Rae, May, Salim, and Cathy went to The King’s Head Pub and Restaurant in Campbell for dinner tonight. On Tuesday and Sunday evenings, the restaurant holds the Pub Quiz for the dinner guests. There are three rounds to the game. The game master poses about 20 questions in each round.…

On Thursday evening, the men and women of Homestead hosted their fourth annual talent show at the Cubberley Community Theater in Palo Alto. I covered the third annual talent show last year and did so again in 2002. There weren’t as many skits this year, and the crowd was thin.…

Thousands of people showed up today for an anti-war protest march in San Francisco. The rally organized and sponsored by Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER), began at Dolores Park shortly before noontime. The demonstrators weaved their way through the streets of San Francisco, ultimately ending at…

This afternoon, Rae and I stopped by the offices of Beau Bonneau Casting in San Francisco. The agency had an open casting call for extras in the upcoming The Hulk movie by Ang Lee. “Don’t get me angry. You won’t like me when I’m angry!” Speaking of Marvel characters, there’s…

If you’ve been reading the news in the Bay Area, there was a protest Thursday afternoon at the Abercrombie & Fitch store in San Francisco. The protest was in reaction to a new line of t-shirts that A&F recently released depicting stereotypical Asian caricatures. “Two Wongs Can Make It White,”…

On Sunday night, I drove up to San Francisco to hear Michael’s band, the Walk-Ups, perform at the Tongue and Groove bar in Pacific Heights. The music for the evening started at 6:30, and there were three other bands playing before the Walk-Ups. Michael, Teri, Ben, and Dave got started…