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Mary H. K. Choi
Mary H.K. Choi is an American author, editor, television and print journalist. She is the author of the young adult novels '' Emergency Contact'' (2018) and '' Permanent Record'' (2019). She is the culture correspondent on ''Vice News Tonight'' on HBO and was previously a columnist at ''Wired'' and '' Allure'' magazines as well as a freelance writer. Life Mary Hyun Kyung Choi was born in Seoul, South Korea and immigrated to Hong Kong before her first birthday. She lived there until moving to Texas just before she turned 14. Choi's parents owned and managed a Korean restaurant to support their family. She attended a large public high school in a suburb of San Antonio, then college at the University of Texas at Austin, where she majored in Textile and Apparel. After college, Choi lived in New York until moving to Los Angeles circa 2014, a decision she described in ''Oh, Never Mind''. In a 2021 talk at House of SpeakEasy's ''Seriously Entertaining'' program, Choi detailed her stru ...
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Seoul, South Korea
Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities by GDP, sixth largest metropolitan economy in 2022, trailing behind New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Tokyo Area, Tokyo, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Paris metropolitan area, Paris, and London metropolitan area, London, and hosts more than half of South Korea's population. Although Seoul's population peaked at over 10 million, it has gradually decreased since 2014, standing at about 9.6 million residents as of 2024. Seoul is the seat of the Government of South Korea, South Korean government. Seoul's history traces back to 18 BC when it was founded by the people of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. During the Joseon dynasty, Seoul was officially designated as the capital, surrounded by the Fortress Wall of Seoul. I ...
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Michael Choi (comics)
Michael Choi is a comic book artist and video game concept artist, known for his work on books by DC Comics, Marvel Comics and Top Cow Comics,Wilson, Alex (March 1, 2013)"Choi Division – Alex Wilson Talks To Michael Choi" Bleeding Cool. such as ''Witchblade'', ''X-23'' and ''X-Force''. Early life Michael Choi is the brother of Mary H.K. Choi, a journalist and author who is known for her young adult fiction, young adult novel ''Emergency Contact (novel), Emergency Contact'', as well as her work on comic books such as ''Lady Deadpool'' from Marvel Comics. Michael Choi went to business school at The University of Texas at Austin, and graduated with a degree in Management Information Systems. Career Choi worked at IBM for three years as an IT consultant before changing careers. Choi penciled a six-issue Marvel entitled ''X-23: Target X'' Limited series (comics), limited series. Michael Choi joined Marvel and penciled ''Uncanny X-Men'' from issue #495 to issue #499 with writer Ed ...
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Kindle Single
A Kindle single is a type of e-book which is published through Amazon's Kindle Store. It is specifically intended as a format for novella-length nonfiction literature or long-form journalism. The name "single" comes from musical singles which are shorter in length than an extended play record. The format, first released in January 2011, was welcomed by ''The New York Times Virginia Heffernan in her final column for the paper, who commented that "I’m thrilled to find these Kindle Singles, which add narrative nonfiction to the forms I can savor out here. Narrative nonfiction in our digital era could exist almost no other way — and indeed, it once seemed headed for obsolescence. I’m extremely happy to see it back." The format has also been praised by literary critic Dwight Garner, who welcomed "what feels almost like a new genre: long enough for genuine complexity, short enough that you don't need journalistic starches and fillers." ''The Atlantic ''The Atlantic'' is ...
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Shanna The She-Devil
Shanna the She-Devil (Shanna O'Hara, Lady Plunder) is a jungle adventurer superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Carole Seuling and penciller George Tuska, the character first appeared in ''Shanna the She-Devil'' #1 (December 1972). Shanna is depicted as an Irish woman, though she was raised in Zaire by an expatriate father. Following the death of her mother, Shanna migrated to the United States to live with relatives. As an adult, she worked as a veterinarian and a zoologist. She eventually settled in the Savage Land and married the jungle lord Ka-Zar. Publication history ''Shanna the She-Devil'' was introduced in one of a trio of Marvel Comics aimed at a female audience, alongside '' Night Nurse'' and '' Claws of the Cat''. Marvel writer-editor Roy Thomas recalled in 2007 that editor-in-chief Stan Lee: Seuling in 2010 recalled: "My instructions were to make hannasomeone who would fit in with the times and also was prone t ...
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Joel Kim Booster
Joel Alexander Kim Booster (born February 29, 1988), born Kim Joonmin (), is an American actor, comedian, producer, and writer. He co-produced and wrote for '' Big Mouth'' and '' The Other Two'' and as an actor has appeared on '' Shrill'', '' Search Party'', and '' Sunnyside''. In 2022, he wrote, produced, and starred in the Hulu romantic comedy ''Fire Island'', a modern adaptation of ''Pride and Prejudice'' with a main cast of Asian American actors. Early and personal life Born Kim Joonmin in Jeju Island, South Korea, Booster was adopted by an American couple as an infant. He was raised in Plainfield, Illinois, in a "conservative, white, Evangelical Christian family" and was initially homeschooled. He went to public school for the first time when he was 16, which he described as his "first time being around non-religious people." He studied theater at Millikin University for his bachelor's degree. He is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Booster is gay and often ...
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Asa Akira
Asa Akira (born January 3, 1985) is an American pornographic film actress, writer and adult film director. Akira has appeared in 689 adult films as of June 2023. In 2013, she became the third Asian performer (after Asia Carrera and Stephanie Swift) to win the AVN Female Performer of the Year Award. Akira hosted the 1st Pornhub Awards, 1st and 2nd Pornhub Awards, 2nd ceremonies for the Pornhub Awards. She was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame, XRCO Hall of Fame, Urban X Award#Hall of Fame Inductees, Urban X Hall of Fame, and Brazzers Hall of Fame. Early life Asa Akira was born in Manhattan, New York. to Japanese parents. She lived in SoHo, Manhattan, until age nine, when she moved to Tokyo, Japan. She lived there for four years before moving back to the United States in her teens. When moving back to New York, her family originally moved to downtown Brooklyn before moving to Clinton Hill, New York. Asa attended the United Nations International School in Kips Bay, Manhattan, Kip ...
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Jenna Wortham
J Wortham (formerly known as Jenna Wortham) is an American journalist. They work as a culture writer for ''The New York Times Magazine'' and co-host ''The New York Times'' podcast '' Still Processing'' with Wesley Morris. In 2020, with Kimberly Drew, Wortham published '' Black Futures'', an anthology of Black art, writing and other creative work. Wortham began their journalism career freelancing in San Francisco, then worked for ''Wired'' before joining the ''Times'' in 2008. Early life Wortham grew up in Alexandria, Virginia, then studied medical anthropology at the University of Virginia. They graduated in 2004. Career Journalism After college, Wortham moved to San Francisco, where they interned for '' San Francisco Magazine'' and '' Girlfriend Magazine'' and wrote for SFist, eventually becoming a technology and culture reporter for ''Wired''. They joined ''The New York Times'' in 2008, working as a technology and business reporter, then moved to the ''Times'' Magazine ...
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The Fader
''The Fader'' is a magazine established in 1999 as an outlet for Cornerstone Agency, a marketing and public relations firm established by Rob Stone and Jon Cohen. The magazine covers music, style and culture. History and work It is owned by The Fader Media group, which also includes its website, thefader.com, as well as Fader films, Fader Label and Fader TV. It was the first print publication to be released on iTunes iTunes is a media player, media library, and mobile device management (MDM) utility developed by Apple. It is used to purchase, play, download and organize digital multimedia on personal computers running the macOS and Windows operating s .... The Fader Fort The magazine hosted The Fader Fort, an annual invitation-only event at Austin, Texas's South by Southwest (SXSW). Since its founding in 2001, the four-day party features live performances. Fader Fort NYC is a party produced during the annual CMJ Music Marathon. The festival has featured over 900 p ...
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Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized in letter case, lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events and styles related to the music industry. Its Billboard charts, music charts include the Billboard Hot 100, Hot 100, the Billboard 200, 200, and the Billboard Global 200, Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in various music genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm and operates several television shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox ...
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The Atlantic
''The Atlantic'' is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C. It features articles on politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science. It was founded in 1857 in Boston as ''The Atlantic Monthly'', a literary and cultural magazine that published leading writers' commentary on education, the abolition of slavery, and other major political issues of that time. Its founders included Francis H. Underwood and prominent writers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Greenleaf Whittier. James Russell Lowell was its first editor. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the magazine also published the annual ''The Atlantic Monthly Almanac''. The magazine was purchased in 1999 by businessman David G. Bradley, who fashioned it into a general editorial magazine primarily aimed at serious national readers and " thought leaders"; in 201 ...
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New York (magazine)
''New York'' is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City. Founded by Clay Felker and Milton Glaser in 1968 as a competitor to ''The New Yorker'' and ''The New York Times Magazine'', it was brasher in voice and more connected to contemporary city life and commerce, and became a cradle of New Journalism. Over time, it became more national in scope, publishing many noteworthy articles about American culture by writers such as Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Nora Ephron, Pete Hamill, Jacob Weisberg, Michael Wolff (journalist), Michael Wolff, John Heilemann, Frank Rich, and Rebecca Traister. It was among the first "lifestyle magazines" meant to appeal to both male and female audiences, and its format and style have been emulated by many American regional and city publications. ''New York'' in its earliest days focused almost entirely on coverage of its namesake city, but beginning in the 1970s, ...
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The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ...
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